Berlin Now: The City After The Wall
by Peter Schneider /
2017 / English / EPUB
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A smartly guided romp, entertaining and enlightening, through Europes most charismatic and engimatic city.
It isnt Europes most beautiful city, or its oldest. Its architecture is not more impressive than that of Rome or Paris its museums do not hold more treasures than those in Barcelona or London. And yet, when citizens of New York, Tel Aviv, or Rome ask me where Im from and I mention the name Berlin, writes Peter Schneider, their eyes instantly light up.
Berlin Now is a longtime Berliners bright, bold, and digressive exploration of the heterogeneous allure of this vibrant city. Delving beneath the obvious answersBerlins club scene, bolstered by the lack of a mandatory closing time the artistic communities that thrive due to the relatively low (for now) cost of livingSchneider takes us on an insiders tour of this rapidly metamorphosing metropolis, where high-class soirees are held at construction sites and enterprising individuals often accomplish more without public fundingassembling a makeshift club on the banks of the Spree Riverthan Berlins officials do.
Schneiders perceptive, witty investigations on everything from the insidious legacy of suspicion instilled by the East German secret police to the clashing attitudes toward work, food, and love held by former East and West Berliners have been sharply translated by Sophie Schlondorff. The result is a book so lively that readers will want to jump on a planejust as soon as theyve finished their adventures on the page.
