Steglitz: Between Idyll and Metropolis
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Releasing Date:2024-03Categories:Reference
Around 1900, the whole of Berlin raved about the towns of Steglitz, Lichterfelde and Lankwitz, located just outside the city gates. Sleepy villages suddenly became popular villa colonies, which in the first half of the 20th century also attracted politicians like Karl Liebknecht and Wilhelm Pieck, writers like Franz Kafka and ac... Read More
Dahlem: Between Idyll and Metropolis
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Releasing Date:2024-03Categories:Reference
The German Oxford The former royal domain of Dahlem developed into a noble villa suburb of the nearby capital at the beginning of the 20th century. But not only wealthy Berliners settled here, but also a large number of research institutions, which soon made Dahlem a world-class center for scientific research. Christian Simon te... Read More
Tempelhof: Between Idyll and Metropolis
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Releasing Date:2024-03Categories:Reference
The once independent district of Tempelhof is characterized by strong contrasts: middle-class residential areas alternate with single-family homes and high-rise developments, and not far from the dreamy village green in Marienfelde lies a spacious industrial site with world-class companies.This book tells the eventful history of... Read More
Tegel: Between Idyll and Metropolis
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Releasing Date:2024-03Categories:Reference
As the location of the airport, which opened in 1948, Tegel is known far beyond the borders of Berlin. Thanks to Lake Tegel, the district also has a long tradition as an excursion destination and idyllic place to live. The Humboldt Castle commemorates Alexander and Wilhelm von Humboldt, who grew up in Tegel as children, and nume... Read More
Pankow. Between Idyll and Metropolis
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Releasing Date:2024-03Categories:Reference Travel Writing
It is still present in old songs, the former excursion destination of Pankow. But Berlin grew and village life in the north of the city gave way to urbanization, and large companies such as the Garbáty cigarette factory settled there. In 1920 it was incorporated into Berlin. In 1945, Pankow became part of the Soviet sector of Be... Read More
Fontane's Captivity: How the Poet Escaped Death in France
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Releasing Date:2024-03Categories:Memoirs
It was Fontane's most dangerous journey. The writer and journalist was arrested as a Prussian spy in the fall of 1870 while researching the Franco-Prussian War and had to fear being sentenced to death by a court martial. The fact that he was ultimately released was thanks to the diplomatic intrigue in which Bismarck was als... Read More
Fontane's Women: Five Places - Five Fates - Five Stories
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Releasing Date:2024-03Categories:Memoirs
Throughout his life, Theodor Fontane was fascinated by women whose lives went beyond the socially prescribed paths. He created a literary monument to some of them in his books.Robert Rauh traveled to original locations to investigate the fate of five of these women. He visits the castles Zerben and Benrath, where the “real” Effi... Read More
Fontanes Havelland: New Hikes Through the Mark Brandenburg
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Releasing Date:2024-03Categories:Reference
What would Fontane have experienced if he had undertaken his legendary “hikes through the Mark Brandenburg” today? Gabriele Radecke and Robert Rauh wanted to know and followed in the poet's footsteps to picturesque Havelland. Instead of a carriage and a pencil, they travel with a navigation system and a laptop - with not on... Read More
Horror in Hamburg: Hamburg Walks
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Releasing Date:2024-03Categories:Reference
Ernst Christian Schütt takes you through “scary” Hamburg on five paths. He shows places where crimes, executions and catastrophes took place that still give us goosebumps today. Go looking for clues through the city center, through Altona and St. Pauli! Read More
The Kurfürstendamm: History of the Berlin Boulevard
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Releasing Date:2024-03Categories:Europe
Regina Stürickow tells the history of Kurfürstendamm in this book. Light-footed and with a great sense of remarkable detail, she describes the development of a Knüppelweg, which, as Berlin grew, became the “real” street and then became the city's most important promenade. The myth of the boulevard arose at the beginning of ... Read More
The Most Beautiful Districts of Vienna: 20 Forays Through the City
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Releasing Date:2024-03Categories:Travel Writing
A sensitive portrait of Vienna and its current residents. Harald Havas strolls through 20 Viennese neighborhoods with leisure and a keen eye. He points out impressive facades as well as curious or special things. Havas combines his knowledge, his meticulous research and his attention to detail to create a very special portrait o... Read More
Leopoldine Spielvogel and the Corpse in the Cornfield
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Releasing Date:2024-03Categories:Historical Fiction
Gabriele Hasmann and Kirstin Allmenröder describe a historical criminal case: a headless corpse is found in a field. The young, self-confident reporter Leopoldine Spielvogel deals with the crime and is always one step ahead of the police, who have been in the dark for a long time. Together with her friend, the nurse Antonia Nawr... Read More
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