Summary
"Why are we drawn to certain cities? Perhaps because of a story read in childhood. Or a chance teenage meeting. Or maybe simply because the place touches us, embodying in its tribes, towers and history an aspect of our understanding of what it means to be human. Paris is about romantic love. Lourdes... Full description
- Imagine
- Konrad von Cölln, and true love
- Colin Albany and the players
- Frederick the Great, and the making of Prussia
- Karl Friedrich Schinkel, and the dream of a capital
- Lilli Neuss, and the owl
- Walther Rathenau, and lost beauty
- Else Hirsch, and the illusion
- Margarete Böhme, and 'Diary of a lost girl'
- Fritz Haber, and the geography of evil
- Käthe Kollwitz, mother and child
- Christopher Isherwood, in a city of the imagination
- Bertolt Brecht, luck and the epic
- Marlene Dietrich, on becoming
- Leni Riefenstahl, and the fatal flaw
- Albert Speer, and Germania
- Joseph Goebbels, the man who made Hitler
- Dieter Werner, Wall builder
- Bill Harvey, and the tunnel
- John F. Kennedy, and politics as theatre
- David Bowie, and 'Heroes'
- Lieu Van Ha, and the gun
- People, let's dance
- Ilse Philips, in another Berlin
- Imagine Berlin.