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Our West Berlin: Storybook From The Island
Paperback
HumorFiction AnthologiesGerman History
ISBN13: 9781935902546
Publisher: Berlinica
Published: Nov 9 2023
Pages: 242
Weight: 0.79
Height: 0.55 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Our West Berlin! The beloved urban island where bars and pubs were open all night so the locals could plot the revolution! Where beer was cheap and sausage on a roll was considered dinner. Where the tenements still bore bullet holes from World War II, and the draft did not exist. Where the city government regularly stumbled over some real estate scandal and where the Communist-controlled S-Bahn train did not run (mostly). Where old-timers, Turkish immigrants, and students from West Germany lived side by side without much talking to each other, where winter smelled like coal, and summer smelled like weed. This book is devoted to this half-city, surrounded by the Wall, which ceased to exist in 1989. Two dozen authors who are, or were living in Berlin have contributed stories, from JFK touring Checkpoint Charlie to squatters at the Wall. It is a book for those who remember, and for those who wish they did.
Berlinica Publishing LLC offers English-language books from Berlin, German; fiction, non-fiction, travel guides, history about the Wall and the Third Reich, Jewish life, art, architecture and photography, as well as travel guides and cookbook. It also offers documentaries and feature films on DVD, as well as music CDs. Berlinica caters to history buffs, Americans of German heritage, travelers, and artists and young people who love the cutting-edge city in the heart of Europe. Berlinica cooperates with Berlin-based publishing houses.
Berlinica's current and upcoming titles include Our West Berlin, by various authors, also five translated books by famed Weimar author Kurt Tucholsky as well as Harold Poor's landmark biography of Tucholsky, two translated plays by Ernst Toller, and two American travel stories by Alfred Kerr and Roda Roda, soon to be followed by Egon Erwin Kisch's Paradise America.
In the non-fiction department, we have Rocking the Wall, the Bruce-Springsteen-book and Burning Beethoven, about German Americans in World War I, both by Erik Kirschbaum, also Mark Twain in Berlin, by Andreas Austilat, Berlin 1945: World War II: Photos of the Aftermath, by Michael Brettin, The Berlin Wall Today, a full-color guide to the remnants of the Wall, by Michael Cramer, Berlin in the Cold War, about post-World War II history, the comprehensive guide Jews in Berlin, by Andreas Nachama, Julius Schoeps, Hermann Simon, and A Place they Called Home, edited by Donna Swarthout about Jews returning to Germany.
We also offer The Berlin Cookbook, a full-color collection of traditional German recipes by Rose Marie Donhauser, the picture book Wings of Desire, by Lothar Heinke, Martin Luther's Travel Guide, by Cornelia Dömer, Leipzig! The City of Books und Music, by Sebastian Ringel, and Berlin For Free, a guide for the frugal traveler by Monica Maertens.
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