Berlin in the Countries, Regions & Cities series from Rough Guides; comprehensively detailed guidebooks specifically designed for independent travellers & serving a range of worldwide destinations. Widely recognised for their free editorial style, Rough Guide authors are allowed to express their personal opinions on a range of subjects. Although sometimes controversial, this editorial stance allows readers to experience more detailed & personal takes on each destination, a feature often more limited in other guidebooks. Cultural & historical nuances are explored in significant depth throughout the text & descriptions on the ambience of individual settings alongside personal recommendations, particularly in cities, are notably prevalent. Each Rough Guide in the Countries, Regions & Cities series has a similar layout. A ...

Berlin in the Luxe city guides series, which are slim & small enough to fit easily in a pocket or handbag. Information is distilled from elite suggestions by city residents, specially selected for their style, knowledge & expertise. Luxe guides aim at the upper end of the market & subjectively edit to choose the very best recommendations for shopping, restaurants, leisure options & nightlife. Half day shopping & activity itineraries are suggested for you to mix & match your visit to suit your timetable. When folded close the cardboard guide slots into its own protective plastic frame. Vanity Fair magazine calls them ...

Clear colourful street plan of central Berlin, highlighting places of interest. The plan indicates one-way streets & car parks, U- & S-Bahn stations, selected hotels, etc. An enlargement shows the area around the Under den Linden in greater detail. The plan is indexed & also

Includes:: a diagram of the U- & S-Bahn networks, plans of the Tegel & Schnefeld airports, a street plan of Potsdam with the Sanssouci palace, & a road map of the environs of the city. Travel tips are included, providing general information for visitors. The map is laminated in durable plastic.

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Gabriele Basilico is one of the best-known 'documentary' photographers in Europe; his field of research is the city & the industralized landscape photographed in black & white & with extreme rigour. An architect by training, he is committed to imposing discipline on spaces & volumes. He tends to cut & define shadows at the same angle, imparting an order & creating a geometry that is based on tormented architecture. This archive of Basilico's photographs of Berlin was accumulated over three separate visits in 2000. Basilico had already photographed Berlin in 1990, when he had documented the gradual demolition of the Wall; for this collection, Basilico's main point of focus is the Eastern area of Berlin, formerly the Communist bloc. This is a unique pictorial record revealing the hidden but coherent rhythm of a modern urban environment & a city in the throes of monumental change. ...

Experience the fascinating world of panoramic photography with the ” City Panoramas 36O ” series, which presents the world`s most beautiful cities. With a panoramic view, you can enjoy the famous sights of a city at a glance. In this volume, Falk Eisleben captures the flair of the colourful, historic capital of Germany. Pariser Platz, Gendarmenmarkt, Kurfurstendamm, Bebelplatz, Alexanderplatz, Potsdamer Platz & many other squares reflect the multitude of architectural styles & the city`s quality of life. Berlin`s fast pace, temperament & turbulence are more than characteristics of a city -- they signify a unique attitude towards life in general. Elegant boulevards in exclusive districts give way to prefabricated buildings of the former East Berlin. Affluence, glamour & quality of life are just as much part of the famous ” Berlin air” as poverty & military regime. ” You need hair on your teeth & a certain roughness to survive in Berlin”, observed Goethe, who was certainly none too delicate himself, while the poet Jean Paul said that ” Berlin is more a part of the world than a city”. They are both right. ...

Berlin is much more than the former capital of Nazi Germany. At the political & geographical centre of the Second World War & the Cold War, the city has also been at the cultural heart of Europe for hundreds of years--and continues to set architectural, musical & fashion trends in the twenty-first century. Similarly, Berlin produced authors such as Theodor Fontane & Bertolt Brecht & now serves as inspiration for postmodern & postcolonial literature by the likes of Emine Sevgi Ozdamar & Gunter Grass. Located along the Spree river in eastern Germany`s verdant Brandenburg landscape, Berlin is a relative latecomer among Europe s capitals. It was a mere village as late as the seventeenth century & not unified into one metropolis until the 1920s. Even today, the various communities that now make up the city have their own distinctive identities. Berlin has been shaped by politicians such as Frederick the Great, dictators like Adolf Hitler & architects such as Karl Friedrich Schinkel & Hans Scharoun, yet none of these individuals managed to put a decisive stamp on the city: because of its turbulent history, Berlin has had to reinvent itself again & again. The staid baroque capital of Prussia was succeeded by the up-&-coming capital of newly united Germany; village homes replaced by tenement housing; the hierarchical orderliness of the early twentieth century followed by the avant-garde statements of modernism. After the destruction of the Second World War, the Wall cut the city in half & created the brooding image of the Cold War frontier; since the dramatic collapse of the Wall the latest version of a unified Berlin has arisen as new Germany`s capital. In its current incarnation Berlin has been characterized as `poor, but sexy` by its own mayor. It may not aspire to the beauty or grandeur of London or Paris, but rather embraces being an exciting & innovative place sought out by artists & entrepreneurs from all over the world. Norbert Schurer`s cultural guide explores the juxtaposition of Berlin`s past & present in history, architecture, literature, art, entertainment & religion, & offers an insider account that provides contexts to make sense of Berlin`s dazzling variety. ...

During the past two decades, Jason Lutes has quietly created one of the masterworks of the graphic novel golden age. Serialized in twenty-two issues, collected in two volumes, with a third to be released at the same time as this omnibus, Berlin has more than 100, 000 copies in print & is one of the high-water marks of the medium: rich in its well-researched historical detail, compassionate in its character studies, & as timely as ever in its depiction of a society slowly awakening to the stranglehold of fascism. Berlin is an intricate look at the fall of the Weimar Republic through the eyes of its citizens? Marthe Muller, a young woman escaping the memory of a brother killed in World War I, Kurt Severing, an idealistic journalist losing faith in the printed word as fascism & extremism take hold; the Brauns, a family torn apart by poverty & politics. Lutes weaves these characters lives into the larger fabric of a city slowly ripping apart. The city itself is the central protagonist in this historical fiction. Lavish salons, crumbling sidewalks, dusty attics, & train stations: all these places come alive in Lutes masterful h&. Weimar Berlin was the world s metropolis, where intellectualism, creativity, & sensuous liberal values thrived, & Lutes maps its tragic, inevitable decline. Devastatingly relevant & beautifully told, Berlin is one of the great epics of the comics medium. ...

Berlin is a party in a graveyard. It is Europe`s youth capital, & its guilty war conscience. It is a disputed construction site, built on the ruins of regimes. Today`s diversity
- refugees, immigrants, arty expats, East & West
- emerges from a history of violence. Berlin is as cutting-edge & contemporary as it is wary of its extreme past. Berlin is a comprehensive short history & portrait of the German capital today. The story of Berlin`s vagaries over nine centuries
- from a dry place in a bog to the control centre of modern Europe
- is expertly portrayed by historian Joseph Pearson. The dynamic present is a palimpsest on this unsettling past. A long-time flaneur of Berlin`s streets, Pearson explores how the city`s history is visible today in bombsites, museums & industrial club spaces (and a lake hosting a man-nibbling monster). In this book, we find that elements of the city that for some can be unnerving
- its emptiness, its provincialism, its ramshackle industrial eclecticism, its sexual freedoms, its confrontation with a murderous past
- are precisely what give the city its charge. Pearson poses provocative questions as he reveals the city`s many layers & varied neighbourhoods. He argues, ultimately, that Berlin`s centrality in European & cultural affairs is only just beginning to be felt.





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” Berlin is a city forever in the process of becoming, never being, & so it lives more powerfully in the imagination.” Rory Maclean, ` Berlin
- Imagine a City`. Located at the epicentre of some of modern Europe`s most significant & turbulent events, Berlin has long held a magnetic attraction for writers. From 19th century authors recording the city`s dramatic transition from Prussian Hauptstadt to German capital after 1871 & the modernist intellectuals of the Weimar period, to the resistance writers brave enough to write during the dark years of the Nazi era & those who captured life on both sides of the divided city, a body of literature has emerged that reveals Berlin`s ever-shifting identity. Since 1989, Berlin has yet again become a crucible of creativity, serving as both muse & sanctuary for a new generation of writers who regularly claim it as one of the most exciting cities in the world. This unique & engaging book functions as an introduction to some of the finest writing in & about the city, as well as a guide to some of its best sights & vibrant neighbourhoods. Spanning more than 200 years of local life & literature, it features German authors as diverse as E.T.A. Hoffmann, Joseph Roth, Jorg Fauser, & Christa Wolf, as well as a slew of famous international names such as Mark Twain, Philip Hensher & Chloe Aridjis.
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Berlin on a pocket-size street plan from Marco Polo Travel Publishing printed on sturdy, waterproof & tear-resistant synthetic paper, with tram & bus routes shown with stops & line numbers, U- & S-Bahn stations clearly marked & the lines shown on a separate diagram, lists of useful addresses, etc The plan is at 1:15, 000 & covers the city with its suburbs, extending north-west to include the Tegel airport, south to the grounds of the old Tempelhof airport, west to include the Messe grounds, & east to the Frankfurter Tor station. The plan shows tram & bus routes with stops & line numbers, U/S-Bahn stations, one way streets, car parks & pedestrianized areas. Important buildings & places of interest are marked. Cartography is from the renowned German publishers Mair Dumont. Multilingual map legend

Includes:: English. The index is on the reverse side &

Includes:: extensive lists of useful contact details for tourist information offices, hotel reservation, campsites & youth hostels, car hire, museums, emergency services, etc. Also provided is a very clear diagram of the U/S-Bahn & rail network, plus a road map of the city’s environs.



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