Bertolt Brecht's Berlin: A scrapbook of the twenties

by Wolf Von Eckardt, Sander L. Gilman

1975 Doubleday. Oblong 4to., 170pp., photo illus., index, cloth. VG, bit of fading on cover, in Good DJ, some chips.

Genres: History

170 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1975

Reviews

[Caroline · Rating 3 out of 5]

Echardt and Gilman present a panorama of Berlin culture during the twenties. It could serve as a good contextual resource for any number of works, such as Berlin Alexanderplatz, The Threepenny Opera, The Blue Angel, etc. There are chapters on the immediate political upheaval following WWI, inflation, nighttime Berlin, the underworld, the intellectuals, the media, art, theater, film, music and dance, architecture, sport, youth, and collapse. Extensive photos.

I particularly appreciated the inclusion of sizable comments on current events and the arts from newspapers across the political spectrum. Thus, if you are reading a novel and one of the characters is reading the Vossiche Zeitung, this book gives you a sense of what he could expect from ‘the liberal non-partisan’ paper.

[Jocelyn Mel · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very good.