Vienna meets Berlin Britische und Irische Studien zur deutschen Sprache und Literatur British and Irish Studies in Ger Bd41 Kartoniert (TB)

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.