Berlin and Its Culture

This beautiful book--a full cultural portrait of Berlin--reveals the spirit of this vital and important city by focusing on the culture it produced from its medieval beginnings to the reunification of 1990. Lavishly illustrated the book surveys the literature, philosophy, music, theater, and visual and decorative arts that emerged from, and were expressive of, the evolving social patterns of the city. 50 color and 160 b&w illustrations.

Preface

XI

(3)

Map

XIV

I Prehistoric and Medieval Times

1

(13)

Beginnings

1

(4)

The Twin Towns: Berlin and Colln

5

(1)

The Middle Ages

6

(8)

II The Age of the Reformation

14

(15)

The Culture of the Court

15

(8)

The Reformation and Literature

23

(2)

The Visual Arts

25

(4)

III The Consolidation of Prussia

29

(26)

Culture and War

29

(4)

The Age of the Great Elector

33

(4)

The Culture of a Capital

37

(2)

Buildings and Handicrafts

39

(9)

Music and the Stage

48

(3)

Spartan Interregnum

51

(4)

IV The Age of Enlightenment

55

(34)

Fridericus Rex

55

(4)

The Spirit of Enlightenment and the Power of the Word

59

(7)

The Theatrical Scene

66

(2)

The World of Music

68

(8)

The Visual Arts

76

(13)

V Romanticism

89

(25)

Prussia and the French Revolution

89

(4)

`Romantische Poesie'

93

(9)

A New Theatre

102

(1)

The Establishment and the Visual Arts

103

(11)

VI Realism and Revolution

114

(39)

From Liberalism to Nationalism

114

(5)

Building for the State

119

(8)

Painting from Romanticism to Realism

127

(6)

The Literature of Realism

133

(4)

The Stage

137

(2)

Music in the Nineteenth Century

139

(14)

VII The Self-Assurance of Empire

153

(57)

Power and Pride

153

(3)

Civic Glories

156

(13)

Sculptors of Empire

169

(3)

Painting and the Social Scene

172

(12)

The Literature of Society

184

(10)

Social Theatre

194

(8)

Music for the People

202

(8)

VIII The Years of the Weimar Republic

210

(52)

A Republic for an Empire

210

(3)

Architecture in the 1920s

213

(6)

Expressionist Art

219

(14)

The Expressionist Word

233

(5)

Berlin and the Novel

238

(6)

Theatre in the Weimar Years

244

(7)

Cinema

251

(3)

Short and Sharp: The Music of the Weimar Decade

254

(8)

IX Nazi Berlin

262

(25)

`Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Fuhrer'

262

(2)

The Nazi Canon of Literature

264

(5)

`Whether `tis nobler in the mind...': The Literature of Inner Emigration

269

(3)

A Revolution Cast in Concrete: The Nazis and Architecture

272

(3)

Painting and Sculpture

275

(7)

Music under the Nazis

282

(5)

X Two Berlins

287

(99)

Emergence from Defeat

287

(7)

Out of the Ruins: The City Builds

294

(8)

The Literature of the West

302

(20)

DRAMA

302

(6)

THE POETIC SELF

308

(5)

THE NOVEL OF THE WEST

313

(9)

The Literature of the East

322

(23)

`THE PLAY'S THE THING'

322

(9)

LYRICAL REALISM

331

(5)

THE NOVEL IN SOCIALISM

336

(9)

Cinema

345

(6)

FILM IN WEST BERLIN

345

(2)

DEFA AND EAST BERLIN

347

(4)

Art in Socialist Realism

351

(10)

The Visual Arts in West Berlin

361

(9)

Musical Life in West Berlin

370

(7)

The Capital of the DDR and Its Music

377

(9)

Postscript

386

(7)

Sources

393

(5)

Bibliography

398

(6)

Illustration Credits

404

(2)

Index

406

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