Berlin now: the city after the Wall

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A "longtime Berliner's ... exploration of the heterogeneous allure of this vibrant city. Delving beneath the obvious answers--Berlin's club scene, bolstered by the lack of a mandatory closing time; the artistic communities that thrive due to the relatively low (for now) cost of living--Schneider takes us on an insider's tour of this rapidly metamorphosing metropolis, where high-class soirees are held at construction sites and enterprising individuals often accomplish more without public funding…

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Full title :Berlin now : the city after the Wall / Peter Schneider ; translated from the German by Sophie Schlondorff.

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:2014.
Edition:First edition

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:2014.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (vi, 326 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780374712105, 0374712107
oclc:ocn886576857
LC Classification:DD881.3
Dewey Decimal:943/.155088

Cinderella Berlin -- The great awakening -- Clash of the architects -- Potsdamer Platz -- Berlin Schloss versus Palace of the Republic -- West Berlin -- A "wessi" attempts to find Berlin's soul -- Berlin : emergence of a new metropolis -- City West versus Capital City (East) and vice versa -- Love (and sex) in Berlin -- Love in divided Berlin -- Love after the fall of the Wall -- Clubs -- What happened to the Wall anyway? -- The American sector is leaving you -- The ghost of BER International Airport -- The Stasi legacy -- An "enemy of the state" becomes boss -- The new racism -- Vietnamese in Berlin -- Anetta Kahane and the Amadeu Antonio Foundation -- The new barbarism -- Turks in Berlin -- A mayor flouts political correctness -- Yes, you can : the Rütli School -- Help, the Swabians are coming! -- A belated cemetery visit -- The man who gave Nefertiti away -- Jewish life in Berlin -- Spring in Berlin.

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Berlin (Allemagne) -- Histoire -- 1990- Berlin (Germany) -- Description and tra… Berlin (Germany) -- History -- 1990- Berlin (Germany) -- Social conditions Berlin (Germany) -- Social life and cus… Germany Germany -- Berlin Historical geography History HISTORY -- Germany. -- Europe HISTORY -- Historical Geography Manners and customs Since 1990 Social conditions travel