Radio Benjamin

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From 1927 to 1933, Walter Benjamin wrote and presented more than eighty broadcasts over the new medium of radio. Radio Benjamin gathers, for the first time in English, the surviving transcripts. This eclectic collection shows the range of Benjamin's thinking and includes stories for young and old, plays, readings, book reviews, a novella, and discussions of topics ranging from finding a job to the architecture of Berlin to an account of the railway disaster at the Firth of Tay. Delightful and incisive, this is Walter Benjamin directing his sophisticated thinking to a mass audience.;Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Abbreviations and a Note on the Texts; Walter Benjamin on the Radio: An Introduction; Section I: Youth Hour: Radio Stories for Children; Chapter 1: Berlin Dialect; Chapter 2: Street Trade and Markets in Old and New Berlin; Chapter 3: Berlin Puppet Theater; Chapter 4: Demonic Berlin; Chapter 5: Berlin Guttersnipe; Chapter 6: Berlin Toy Tour I; Chapter 7: Berlin Toy Tour II; Chapter 8: Borsig; Chapter 9: The Rental Barracks; Chapter 10: Theodor Hosemann; Chapter 11: A Visit to the Brass Works; Chapter 12: Fontaneâ#x80;#x99;s Wanderings through the Mark Brandenburg Title Page Copyright Contents Abbreviations and a Note on the Texts Walter Benjamin on the Radio: An Introduction Section I: Youth Hour: Radio Stories for Children Chapter 1: Berlin Dialect Chapter 2: Street Trade and Markets in Old and New Berlin Chapter 3: Berlin Puppet Theater Chapter 4: Demonic Berlin Chapter 5: Berlin Guttersnipe Chapter 6: Berlin Toy Tour I Chapter 7: Berlin Toy Tour II Chapter 8: Borsig Chapter 9: The Rental Barracks Chapter 10: Theodor Hosemann Chapter 11: A Visit to the Brass Works Chapter 12: Fontaneâ#x80 #x99 s Wanderings through the Mark Brandenburg Chapter 13: Witch TrialsChapter 14: Robber Bands in Old Germany Chapter 15: The Gypsies Chapter 16: The Bastille, the Old French State Prison Chapter 17: Kaspar Hauser Chapter l8: Dr. Faust Chapter 19: Cagliostro Chapter 20: Postage Stamp Swindles Chapter 21: The Bootleggers Chapter 22: Naples Chapter 23: The Fall of Herculaneum and Pompeii Chapter 24: The Lisbon Earthquake Chapter 25: Theater Fire in Canton Chapter 26: The Railway Disaster at the Firth of Tay Chapter 27: The Mississippi Flood of 1927 Chapter 28: True Dog Stories Chapter 29: A Crazy Mixed-Up Day: Section II: Radio Plays for ChildrenChapter 30: Much Ado About Kasper A Radio Play Chapter 31: The Cold Heart Section III: Radio Talks, Plays, Dialogues, and Listening Models Chapter 32: Childrenâ#x80 #x99 s Literature Chapter 33: â#x80 #x9C Sketched in Mobile Dustâ#x80 #x9D Chapter 34: E. T. A. Hoffmann and Oskar Panizza Chapter 35: Prescriptions for Comedy Writers Chapter 36: Carousel of Jobs Chapter 37: â#x80 #x9C A Pay Raise?! Whatever Gave You That Idea!â#x80 #x9D Chapter 38: What the Germans Were Reading While Their Classical Authors Were Writing Chapter 39: Lichtenberg Section IV: Writings on Radio, Off Air Chapter 40: Reflections on RadioChapter 41: Theater and Radio Chapter 42: Two Kinds of Popularity Chapter 43: The Situation in Broadcasting Chapter 44: Listening Models Appendix: Walter Benjaminâ#x80 #x99 s Radio Broadcasts Notes on Contributors