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| Spazieren in Berlin |
Walter Benjamin celebrated his friend's book Walking in Berlin as an "echo of what the city has told its children from early on."Hessel's vividly elegant portrait of Berlin during the "Golden ’20s" shows the metropolis of the Weimar Republic from a multitude of different angles. Franz Hessel's work was long forgotten; he died in 1941 in France after being released from the internment camp Les Milles. Although Godard's character Jules from Jules et Jim was based on Hessel's life, his work didn't find its way back to readers until the’90s when his collected works were published in Germany. Spazieren in Berlin came out first in 1929, and again in 1989 under the title Ein Flaneur in Berlin. But it is still waiting to be translated into English.
Recommended by Karina von Tippelskirch.
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