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Free Berlin

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Author by : Briana J. Smith
Languange Used : en
Release Date : 2022-09-20
Publisher by : MIT Press

ISBN : 9780262370943

An alternative history of art in Berlin, detaching artistic innovation from art world narratives and connecting it instead to collective creativity and social solidarity. In pre- and post-reunification Berlin, socially engaged artists championed collective art making and creativity over individual advancement, transforming urban space and civic life in the process. During the Cold War, the city’s state of exception invited artists on both sides of the Wall to detour from artistic tradition; post-Wall, art became a tool of resistance against the orthodoxy of economic growth. In Free Berlin, Briana Smith explores the everyday peculiarities, collective joys, and grassroots provocations of experimental artists in late Cold War Berlin and their legacy in today’s city. These artists worked intentionally outside the art market, believing that art should be everywhere, freed from its confinement in museums and galleries. They used art as a way to imagine new forms of social and creative life. Smith introduces little-known artists including West Berlin feminist collective Black Chocolate, the artist duo paint the town red (p.t.t.r), and the Office for Unusual Events, creators of satirical urban political theater, as well as East Berlin action art and urban interventionists Erhard Monden, Kurt Buchwald, and others. Artists and artist-led urban coalitions in 1990s Berlin carried on the participatory spirit of the late Cold War, with more overt forms of protest and collaboration at the neighborhood level. The temperament lives on in twenty-first century Berlin, animating artists’ resolve to work outside the market and citizens’ spirited defenses of green spaces, affordable housing, and collectivist projects. With Free Berlin, Smith offers an alternative history of art in Berlin, detaching artistic innovation from art world narratives and connecting it instead to Berliners’ historic embrace of care, solidarity, and cooperation....

Free Berlin

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Author by : Briana J. Smith
Languange Used : en
Release Date : 2022-09-20
Publisher by : MIT Press

ISBN : 9780262047197

An alternative history of art in Berlin, detaching artistic innovation from art world narratives and connecting it instead to collective creativity and social solidarity. In pre- and post-reunification Berlin, socially engaged artists championed collective art making and creativity over individual advancement, transforming urban space and civic life in the process. During the Cold War, the city’s state of exception invited artists on both sides of the Wall to detour from artistic tradition; post-Wall, art became a tool of resistance against the orthodoxy of economic growth. In Free Berlin, Briana Smith explores the everyday peculiarities, collective joys, and grassroots provocations of experimental artists in late Cold War Berlin and their legacy in today’s city. These artists worked intentionally outside the art market, believing that art should be everywhere, freed from its confinement in museums and galleries. They used art as a way to imagine new forms of social and creative life. Smith introduces little-known artists including West Berlin feminist collective Black Chocolate, the artist duo paint the town red (p.t.t.r), and the Office for Unusual Events, creators of satirical urban political theater, as well as East Berlin action art and urban interventionists Erhard Monden, Kurt Buchwald, and others. Artists and artist-led urban coalitions in 1990s Berlin carried on the participatory spirit of the late Cold War, with more overt forms of protest and collaboration at the neighborhood level. The temperament lives on in twenty-first century Berlin, animating artists’ resolve to work outside the market and citizens’ spirited defenses of green spaces, affordable housing, and collectivist projects. With Free Berlin, Smith offers an alternative history of art in Berlin, detaching artistic innovation from art world narratives and connecting it instead to Berliners’ historic embrace of care, solidarity, and cooperation....

Berlin Free Things To Do

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Author by : Sarah Retter
Languange Used : en
Release Date : 2015-08-01
Publisher by :

ISBN : 1515354717

The final guide for free and discounted food, accommodations, museums, sightseeing, outdoor activities, attractions, events, music, theater and rides. This is the best Kindle guide for freebies and discounts available in one of the most beautiful and interesting cities in the world: Berlin And probably the most expensive. So, if you need to stretch your budget and get the most of this wonderful city, this book is for you. You´ll find exciting things to do in New York:FREE THINGS* Cathedrals, Churches & Cemeteries* Park, Gardens & Neighborhoods* Music* Attractions* Markets* Show & Rides* Museums* Accommodations* Festivals* Food and DrinksDISCOUNTS AVAILABLE* Museums* Theaters* Food and Drinks* Hotels* Cruises and Tours* MarketsPlan your visit in advance and save a lot of money while getting the most of your traveling!Purchase your copy today and start saving now!...

Thoughts Are Free

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Author by : Max Hertzberg
Languange Used : en
Release Date : 2016-10-03
Publisher by : Wolf Press

ISBN : 9780993324734

East Germany, 1994: a country ravaged by politics and economic meltdown Fascist skinheads roam the streets of East Berlin, the country is divided by a referendum. In this sequel to Stealing The Future, ex-dissident Martin Grobe is preparing an ex-Stasi agent for an undercover mission against the far-right, while punk Karo tackles the problem in her own way: on the streets with the local Antifa. But when Martin's investigations make him a target, he joins forces with Karo—can they stem the tide of violence threatening to wash away the GDR? Book 2 of the East Berlin Series. "Through fine storytelling Hertzberg asks how we can meet the challenge of diversity without betraying the ideas of self-determination and freedom." Peace News...

Berlin For Free

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Author by : Monika Märtens
Languange Used : en
Release Date : 2011
Publisher by :

ISBN : 1935902407

Discovering Berlin has never been easier with this invaluable guide for the frugal traveler. This book has neatly arranged the best no-cost opportunities for kids and grown-ups alike. A wide variety of easy-to-find activities such as concerts in the park, films, tours, exhibitions, sporting events, and street fairs are included. More than 200 up-to-date addresses, phone numbers, and websites that have been fact-checked round out the useful information....

Einstein In Berlin

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Author by : Thomas Levenson
Languange Used : en
Release Date : 2017-05-23
Publisher by : Random House

ISBN : 9780525508953

In a book that is both biography and the most exciting form of history, here are eighteen years in the life of a man, Albert Einstein, and a city, Berlin, that were in many ways the defining years of the twentieth century. Einstein in Berlin In the spring of 1913 two of the giants of modern science traveled to Zurich. Their mission: to offer the most prestigious position in the very center of European scientific life to a man who had just six years before been a mere patent clerk. Albert Einstein accepted, arriving in Berlin in March 1914 to take up his new post. In December 1932 he left Berlin forever. “Take a good look,” he said to his wife as they walked away from their house. “You will never see it again.” In between, Einstein’s Berlin years capture in microcosm the odyssey of the twentieth century. It is a century that opens with extravagant hopes--and climaxes in unparalleled calamity. These are tumultuous times, seen through the life of one man who is at once witness to and architect of his day--and ours. He is present at the events that will shape the journey from the commencement of the Great War to the rumblings of the next one. We begin with the eminent scientist, already widely recognized for his special theory of relativity. His personal life is in turmoil, with his marriage collapsing, an affair under way. Within two years of his arrival in Berlin he makes one of the landmark discoveries of all time: a new theory of gravity--and before long is transformed into the first international pop star of science. He flourishes during a war he hates, and serves as an instrument of reconciliation in the early months of the peace; he becomes first a symbol of the hope of reason, then a focus for the rage and madness of the right. And throughout these years Berlin is an equal character, with its astonishing eruption of revolutionary pathways in art and architecture, in music, theater, and literature. Its wild street life and sexual excesses are notorious. But with the debacle of the depression and Hitler’s growing power, Berlin will be transformed, until by the end of 1932 it is no longer a safe home for Einstein. Once a hero, now vilified not only as the perpetrator of “Jewish physics” but as the preeminent symbol of all that the Nazis loathe, he knows it is time to leave....

Berlin

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Author by : German Information Center (New York, N.Y.)
Languange Used : en
Release Date : 1962
Publisher by :

ISBN : UCAL:B4154212

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Wimdu City Guides No 1 Berlin

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Author by : Joey Davey
Languange Used : en
Release Date : 2015-02-25
Publisher by : Wimdu GmbH

ISBN :

Wimdu City Guides: No.1 Berlin is a free travel guide offering expert insight into many of Berlin’s best sites and attractions. Comprising 12,000 words and over 85 pages, this concise, essential travel guide gives you useful tips and all the relevant, need-to-know information for making the most of a city break in Berlin. From Top 10 lists to restaurant recommendations, this guide offers objective advice on some of the best sites, sounds and snacks that Berlin has to offer. Inside Wimdu City Guides: No.1 Berlin: 11 easily-accessible chapters offering a logical breakdown of everything from historical monuments, cultural attractions, transport, nightlife and much more. 55 full-colour images and maps. 80 attractions categorised under relevant headings. Essential info that any ultimate travel guide must have - such as locations, operating hours, contact details, websites and pricing. Cultural insights, covering details of Berlin’s diverse history, art scene, food, entertainment and LGBT culture. Top 10 List of Free Things to See and Do in Berlin for the budget-traveller. Where to stay chapter, offering information on the Mitte, Kreuzberg, Friedrichshain, Charlottenburg and Prenzlauer Berg districts. Author: Written and researched by Joseph Davey Editors: Edited by Claire Williams and Ros Banks Designer: Designed by Cassie Zhen About Wimdu: Wimdu is Europe’s leading online platform offering city apartments for all tastes and budgets. By connecting guests and hosts worldwide, Wimdu offers an enjoyable, authentic travel experience for those looking for a smart alternative to hotels. From penthouse apartments in New York to city studios in Paris, Wimdu’s range of over 300,000 properties in more than 140 countries ensures that everybody can find attractive, affordable accommodation for their next trip. www.wimdu.co.uk...

Berlin Cabaret

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Author by : Peter JELAVICH
Languange Used : en
Release Date : 2009-06-30
Publisher by : Harvard University Press

ISBN : 9780674039131

Step into Ernst Wolzogen's Motley Theater, Max Reinhardt's Sound and Smoke, Rudolf Nelson's Chat noir, and Friedrich Hollaender's Tingel-Tangel. Enjoy Claire Waldoff's rendering of a lower-class Berliner, Kurt Tucholsky's satirical songs, and Walter Mehring's Dadaist experiments, as Peter Jelavich spotlights Berlin's cabarets from the day the curtain first went up, in 1901, until the Nazi regime brought it down. Fads and fashions, sexual mores and political ideologies--all were subject to satire and parody on the cabaret stage. This book follows the changing treatment of these themes, and the fate of cabaret itself, through the most turbulent decades of modern German history: the prosperous and optimistic Imperial age, the unstable yet culturally inventive Weimar era, and the repressive years of National Socialism. By situating cabaret within Berlin's rich landscape of popular culture and distinguishing it from vaudeville and variety theaters, spectacular revues, prurient nude dancing, and Communist agitprop, Jelavich revises the prevailing image of this form of entertainment. Neither highly politicized, like postwar German Kabarett, nor sleazy in the way that some American and European films suggest, Berlin cabaret occupied a middle ground that let it cast an ironic eye on the goings-on of Berliners and other Germans. However, it was just this satirical attitude toward serious themes, such as politics and racism, that blinded cabaret to the strength of the radical right-wing forces that ultimately destroyed it. Jelavich concludes with the Berlin cabaret artists' final performances--as prisoners in the concentration camps at Westerbork and Theresienstadt. This book gives us a sense of what the world looked like within the cabarets of Berlin and at the same time lets us see, from a historical distance, these lost performers enacting the political, sexual, and artistic issues that made their city one of the most dynamic in Europe....

Lonely Planet Berlin

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Author by : Lonely Planet
Languange Used : en
Release Date : 2019-02-01
Publisher by : Lonely Planet

ISBN : 9781788681889

Lonely Planet’s Berlin is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Visit the iconic Berlin Wall, enjoy local street art and nightlife, and be dazzled by the Reichstag – all with your trusted travel companion....

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