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Vienna meets Berlin

Cultural Interaction 1918-1933

John Warren editor Ulrike Zitzslperger editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Verlag Peter Lang

Published:3rd Jul '08

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The volume is based on papers given at the London Symposium ‘Vienna Meets Berlin: Culture in the Metropolis Between the Wars’ which took place at the Institute of Germanic Studies in December 2001.
The book surveys the cultural links between Vienna and Berlin with a focus on the inter-war years and some post-1945 continuities. It includes a centenary tribute to Ödön von Horváth and contributions on theatre, film, journalism (the feuilleton in particular), literature, music and socio-political issues. Together, the studies can be read as a narrative of interaction between the two capital cities. The industrial and modern Berlin of the 1920s proves an irresistible magnet for many Viennese, whose letters and journalism time and again reflect on the differences between the cities. The year 1933 marks the political cut-off point, when in many cases exile becomes the predominant theme.

«... this is a volume that should prove useful to anyone with a broad interest in the period as well as to scholars of the individual names and subjects covered in the essays.» (Jon Hughes, Modern Language Review)

ISBN: 9783039118533

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 450g

298 pages

2nd Revised edition