Publisher's Synopsis
The contributions of the conference of the same name at the University of the South in Tennessee, USA, examine the relationship between the impact of Berlin's urban space on artistic representations. In a first part, the Wilhelmine symbols of the city and the modern city planning that is being used are brought into relation to Berlin flaneurs such as Georg Hermann and Robert Walser. The focus of the volume is in the second part, which focuses on the effects of urban planning on art and literature in Berlin during the Weimar period. In this part, a number of individual representations show aspects of the interaction of space and artifact u. a. with Otto Dix, Walter Ruttmann, Hans Fallada and Alfred Döblin. Concluding there are contributions about the continuing work of Weimar's modernity in the present time.
