The volume is based on papers given at the London Symposium 'Vienna Meets Berlin: Culture in
the Metropolis Between the Wars' which took place at the Institute of Germanic Studies in
December 2001. The book surveys the cultural links between Vienna and Berlin with a focus on
the inter-war years and some post-1945 continuities. It includes a centenary tribute to Ödön
von Horváth and contributions on theatre film journalism (the feuilleton in particular)
literature music and socio-political issues. Together the studies can be read as a narrative
of interaction between the two capital cities. The industrial and modern Berlin of the 1920s
proves an irresistible magnet for many Viennese whose letters and journalism time and again
reflect on the differences between the cities. The year 1933 marks the political cut-off point
when in many cases exile becomes the predominant theme.
