Topography and Literature

Berlin and Modernism

Edited by Reinhard Zachau Series edited by Carsten Gansel Series edited by Hermann Korte

Book cover: Topography and Literature

Extent: 187 pages

Publisher: V&R unipress

Subjects: Art & Art History

Series: Deutschsprachige Gegenwartsliteratur und Medien

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(July 2009)

ISBN: 9783899714685

6.42 x 9.69 inches

Price: $82.00

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Die Auswirkungen der Stadtplanung auf Kunst und Literatur im Berlin der Weimarzeit.


The contributions in this volume are based on a conference that was held at the University of the South in Tennessee (USA) in 2008. The papers investigate the impact Berlin’s cityscape had on its artistic representation. In the first part, the impact of Berlin’s city planning with its monumental Wilhelmine symbolism is explored in flaneur characters, e. g. in Georg Hermann’s work. The main focus of the volume is on the second part with an investigation of the impact city planning had on Weimar Berlin’s art and literature. In this section, a number of contributions show the interaction between space and art, e. g. in Walter Ruttmann, Hans Fallada and Alfred Doblin. The volume concludes with essays about the continuation of Weimar’s modernism in contemporary culture.

Dr. Reinhard K. Zachau ist Professor für Deutsch und Film Studies an der University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, USA. Er ist Autor einer Reihe von Werken, u. a. einer Monographie über Stefan Heym und einer Einführung zum deutschen Film, sowie Studien über Hans Fallada, Heinrich Böll und Stefan Heym. Dr. Reinhard Zachau is Professor of German and Film Studies at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee (USA). He is the author of a number of books, among them a volume on Stefan Heym’s work, introductions to German film and to Berlin’s culture, along with studies on Wolfgang Koeppen, Hans Fallada and Heinrich Böll.

  • Edited by Reinhard Zachau
  • Series edited by Carsten Gansel
  • Series edited by Hermann Korte