The first days of Berlin : the sound of change /
"Berlin in the early 1990s: this is the place to be. Berlin-Mitte, the central district of the city, with its wastelands and decaying houses, has become the focal point of a new movement. Artists, musicians, squatters, club owners, DJs and ravers are reclaiming what used to be the heart of the...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | Translated from the German. |
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Cambridge :
Polity Press,
[2021]
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| Edition: | English edition. |
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| Summary: | "Berlin in the early 1990s: this is the place to be. Berlin-Mitte, the central district of the city, with its wastelands and decaying houses, has become the focal point of a new movement. Artists, musicians, squatters, club owners, DJs and ravers are reclaiming what used to be the heart of the ciry. In the months following the fall of the Wall, there is a feeling of immense possibilities: life is now. Ulrich Gutmair moved to West Berlin as a student in autumn 1989 and spend the next few years studying during the day in the West and exploring the squats, bars and techno clubs in the East at night. Ten years later he decided to write a book about the transitional period between the collapse of the old East Germany and the gentrification of the new Berlin, a period when utopia was a place that anyone could inhabit for a moment"--Back cover. |
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| Item Description: | "Originally published in German as "Die ersten Tage von Berlin. Der Sound der Wende" © 2013 Klett-Cotta -- J.G. Cotta'sche Buchhandlung Nachfolger GmbH, Stuttgart."--Title page verso. |
| Physical Description: | xvii, 212 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [209]-212). |
| ISBN: | 9781509547296 1509547290 9781509547302 1509547304 |