GERMAN

Berliner Adressen: Soziale Topographie und urbaner Realismus bei Theodor Fontane, Paul Lindau, Max Kretzer und Georg Hermann

By Hinrich C. Seeba

Book information

Publisher
de Gruyter
Year
2017
ISBN
9783110571646, 9783110567656, 9783110568400
DOI
10.1515/9783110571646
Language
german
Format
EPUB
Filesize
14 MB (14970096 bytes)
Pages
281\0
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-07-26 06:32:17

Description

The mapping of Berlin after 1871 received new currency when Berlin was declared the capital of reunited Germany in 1991, with Fontane becoming the literary figurehead of the new 'Berlin Republic.' Largely shaped by Fontane, the Berlin novel between 1885 and 1906 uses exact addresses on the citymap to mark a social movement from East to West. A comparison of Fontane and lesser known authors of his time (Paul Lindau, Max Kretzer and 'the Jewish Fontane' Georg Hermann) reveals that the now proverbial "Mauer im Kopf" (wall of the mind), between the more bourgeois Western part and the more proletarian Eastern part, existed already one-hundred years earlier.

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