Lost Berlin

You may have seen some of these photographs before, but most are very unusual. Two facing pages of color covers of the Lustige Blaetter magazine, for example, are very charming, immediately followed by two pages of radical color art from Otto Dix to George Grosz. The text is most helpful, too. I read every book I can find on modern German history, but I know of no other volume quite like this one. Most of the pictures are in black and white, but that is understandable considering the era the book deals with.

Fine text & phenomenal photographs.

Wonderful photographs and narrative; this book captures the life and spirit of Berlin during its heyday. The final few pages address the emergence of the Nazi influence; other books thus are left to relate the ensuing horror that befell Berlin. One of my favourite Berlin books. Also worth a read are "Before the Deluge" and "Faust's Metropolis", two excellent books which cover Berlin in the 20's and 30's.

This book of Pre-World War II Berlin is eloquently told in a series of photographs the have an undeniable melancholy effect on the reader for days of tranquility and simplicity long gone. If you can get your hands on a copy it is well worth it.

This book is a picture book. Most of the pictures are of a Berlin that disappeared under allied bombing. Other pictures are of the picture takers, artists, and movies of that Ziet. The time period covered is the 1920's and 1930's. There are several pictures of the Freicorps, and images from films such as "The cabinet of Dr. Caligari. The table of contents reads: 1. BERLINERLUFT 6 2. BAUHAUSSTADT 34 3. CABARET AND FILMSTADT 66 4. MUSIKSTADT 108 5. STADT MAHAGONNY 140 INDEX 204 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 208 Berlin: Symphony of a Great City