These rare pictures from post-war Berlin have been taken by photographers of the Soviet Army and by Germans in their employ immediately after the surrender and in the months to follow. A city reduced to rubble, and now under martial law, is imposed by the victorious Communists. And now, broken tanks and makeshift barricades are littering the streets, tenements and churches are turned into bombed-out shells, tunnels are flooded and train tracks destroyed. German soldiers have been hauled off to POW-camps in Siberia, while old men are cutting up dead horses for food, women are trading clothing for survival, and children are left to their own devices in the ruins. Published for the first time in the United States, this collection allows a glimpse into an era of destruction and desperation, but also of survival and rebuilding. The preface was written by Stephen Kinzer, the former bureau chief of The New York Times in Berlin.

Berlin 1945: World War II: Photos of the Aftermath

Arts & Photography

Brettin, Michael

Photography & Video

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Wings of Desire - Angels of Berlin is a whimsical, colorful photo collection of the many angels that watch over Berlin, from the citys gates and bridges, church steeples, museums, and ancient cemeteries. Some stand proudly above the entrances of mansions, and some are modestly hidden in back yards. Well meet angels from the Wim Wenders landmark movie as well as Marlene Dietrich, the famous "Blue Angel," and the angelic singer Hildegard Neff. Berlin angels also dance at parades, linger in icecream parlors, and decorate Christmas markets. And even some pets in Berlin have their very own guardian angel. This is a book that will warm your heart.

Wings of Desire: Angels of Berlin

Heinke, Lothar

History & Criticism

A complete satirical selection from the "man with the acid pen and the perfect pitch for hypocrisy,” as Tucholsky-expert Peter Wortsman writes, this book contains Tucholsky’s news stories, features, satirical pieces, and poems about his hometown Berlin. It depicts Weimar Berlin, its cabarets, its policies, its follies, its ticks, and its celebrities, such as Pola Negri, Gussy Holl, Bert Brecht, Max Reinhardt, and Heinrich Zille. Herr Wendriner, the chatty Berlin businessman, makes an appearance, as well as Lottchen, the flapper, modelled after one of Tucholsky’s real-life girlfriends. The book contains some of Tucholsky’s most famous pieces, more than one satirical biography of the author himself, and some of his most famed stories.

Berlin! Berlin!: Dispatches from the Weimar Republic (Kurt Tucholsky in Translation)

Humor & Entertainment

Tucholsky,Kurt

Humor

In the summer of 1912, a young couple escapes on a romantic weekend getaway to the small German town of Rheinsberg, an hour north of Berlin, in the midst of the rural landscape filled with country houses and castles, cobble stone streets, lush forests, and dreamy lakes. The story of Wolfie and Claire, told with a fresh, new style of ironic humor, became Kurt Tucholsky’s first literary success and the blueprint for love for an entire generation.

Rheinsberg: A Storybook for Lovers; And Among City Wizards Love Poems For Claire (Kurt Tucholsky in Translation)

Literature & Fiction

Literary

Rheinsberg: A Storybook for Lovers (Kurt Tucholsky in Translation)

Kurt Tucholsky is one of Weimar Germany's most celebrated literary figures. The poet, journalist, and satirist who was at the center of the tumultuous political and cultural world of 1920’s Berlin still emerges as an astonishingly contemporary figure. But he was more than just an angry truth-teller; he was also one of the funniest satirical writers of his era, depicting everyday lives during the rise of modernity. The iconic translation of Harry Zohn, a literary figure from Vienna himself, presented Tucholsky to an American audience for the first time. This edition features a preface by Ralph Blumenthal, journalism professor and former reporter for The New York Times.

Germany? Germany!: Satirical Writings: The Kurt Tucholsky Reader

Humor & Satire

Offering a chance to visit key places connected to Martin Luther, this guide brings readers to each town, castle, and church where the famed German preached, spoke, or fought. Travelers will find information on the historic towns of Dresden, Eisleben, Erfurt, Gotha, Leipzig, Lutherstadt Wittenberg, Weimar, and Worms. The book also includes stories about Luther's life and work as well as maps, timelines, full color pictures, hotel and restaurant recommendations, addresses, phone numbers, and websites. Fascinating and insightful, this guide will not only help travelers prepare for their trip but will also present facts and information on each historical site.

Martin Luther's Travel Guide: 500 Years of the 95 Theses: On the Trail of the Reformation in Germany

Dömer, Cornelia

<div>Harold L. Poor's biography of the iconic German Jewish author, journalist, satirist, playwright, and poet is the most important and thorough work on Kurt Tucholsky in the English-speaking world--a labor of love by the Rutgers history professor that is still unmatched. For this book, Poor has not only spent years of research in American Universities, he also visited Tucholsky's widow Mary Gerold in her home in Germany, his family in tow, and unearthed materials, letters, and pictures that had previously been unpublished. This book is an entertaining and well-written gem that has finally been rediscovered.</div>

Kurt Tucholsky: The Short Fat Berliner Who Tried to Stop a Catastrophe With a Typewriter

Biographies & Memoirs

Poor, Harold L.

Historical

The Berlin Cookbook reveals how to make Schnitzel, Currywurst, Eisbein, Döner Kebap, and those jelly donuts known as Berliners—and how easy it is, since Berlin cuisine is simple, wholesome, and down-to-earth. This cookbook offers traditional recipes and also tells stories about the heritage of Berlin food: how Eisbein got its name, why Friedrich II made Prussian farmers plant potatoes, how meatballs were imported by Huguenots, and how Bismarck got his herring.

The Berlin Cookbook. Traditional Recipes and Nourishing Stories. The First and Only Cookbook from Berlin, Germany, with many authentic German dishes

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Donhauser, Rose Marie

Cooking Education & Reference

<div>In his day Ernst Toller (1893-1939) was as renowned as the young Bertolt Brecht. High profile persona non-grata in 1933 when the Nazis came to power, Toller fled to London, went on a lecture tour to the U.S. in 1936, and tried to make a go of it as a screenwriter in Los Angeles. Dispirited, despondent upon learning that his brother and sister had been sent to a concentration camp and convinced that the world as he knew it had succumbed to the forces of darkness, Toller was found dead by hanging, a presumed suicide, in his room at the Hotel Mayflower on May 22, 1939. Conceived in the German theatrical tradition of Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz's The Soldiers and Georg Büchner's Woyzeck, Toller's devastating tragedy Hinkemann is a painfully poetic plaidoyer for the overlooked vision and voice of the victim.</div>

Hinkemann: A Tragedy (German Drama in Translation)

Toller, Ernst

Dramas & Plays

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