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This post will be of interest only to those who buy the digital edition of Berlin Before and After<\/em>, which omits the Notes section due to complicated formatting reasons. The print edition includes all of this material at the back. Both editions\u2014print and digital\u2014are due out on September 8.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

WINTER<\/p>\n\n\n\n

19 \u201cPeople like to laugh in Berlin\u201d: Alfred D\u00f6blin, Berlin Alexanderplatz,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

translated by Michael Hofmann. New York: NYRB Classics, 2018, p.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

348. (Hereafter cited as D\u00f6blin.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

21 \u201cThe period reflected by Berlin\u2019s . . . in visual form\u201d: Heinrich<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mendelssohn in Metropolis Berlin: 1880\u20131940, edited by Iain Boyd<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whyte and David Frisby. Berkeley: University of California Press,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2012, p. 346. (Hereafter cited as Metropolis Berlin.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

21 \u201cthis point in history . . . is a necessity\u201d: Heinrich Mendelssohn in<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Metropolis Berlin, p. 346.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

22 \u201conly if height . . . secured in the buildings\u201d: Werner Hegemann, Report<\/p>\n\n\n\n

on a City Plan for the Municipalities of Oakland and Berkeley, 1915,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

reprinted in London by Forgotten Books, 2018, p. 98.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

22 \u201cpassion for justice.\u201d \u201ca winning edge . . . rounds out the writing\u201d: Joseph<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Roth, What I Saw: Reports from Berlin 1920\u20131933, translated by<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Michael Hofmann. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2003, pp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

127, 126. (Hereafter cited as Roth.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

22 \u201cWherever he . . . Hegemann declares it\u201d: Walter Benjamin in<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Metropolis Berlin, p. 360.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

23 \u201cA skyscraper is like . . . particular individuals\u201d: Werner Hegemann in<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Metropolis Berlin, p. 345.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

23 \u201cA metropolitan square . . . flowing traffic\u201d: Martin Wagner in<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Metropolis Berlin, p. 351.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

24 \u201cOn Alexanderplatz . . . get the money from\u201d: D\u00f6blin, pp. 113, 155\u201356.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

25 \u201cGlacial air . . . melted away\u201d: D\u00f6blin, p. 155.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

26 \u201cthe winter was terribly . . . theft of public property\u201d: D\u00f6blin, p. 434.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

28 The two largest gangs . . . Nordpiraten: Barney White-Spunner,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Berlin:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Story of a City. London: Pegasus Books, 2021. (Hereafter cited as<\/p>\n\n\n\n

White-Spunner.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

29 \u201cIn London . . . live in each house\u201d: Werner Hegemann in Metropolis<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Berlin, p. 354.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

29 \u201cIn those places . . . bars all around Alexanderplatz close\u201d: Franz Hessel,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Walking in Berlin: A Flaneur in the Capital, translated by Amanda<\/p>\n\n\n\n

DeMarco. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2017, p. 192. (Hereafter<\/p>\n\n\n\n

cited as Hessel.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

30 \u201cGiven the fact . . . facing the nation\u201d: Werner Hegemann in Metropolis Berlin, p. 357.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

31 \u201cThis book is . . . destroyed by the war,\u201d \u201cAll quiet on the Western Front\u201d:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front, translated by<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A. W. Wheen. New York: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2013, pp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

160, 159.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

32 \u201cHe has the head . . . been of use\u201d: Harry Kessler, Berlin in Lights: The<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Diaries of Count Harry Kessler (1918\u20131937), translated by Charles<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kessler. New York: Grove Press, 1999, pp. 366, 367. (Hereafter cited as<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kessler.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

38 In the 1925 local elections . . . went to Joseph Goebbels: White-Spunner,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

p. 295; see also James K. Pollock, \u201cThe German Elections of 1928,\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

American Political Science Review, vol. 22, no. 3 (August 1928), p. 702.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

39 \u201cBuy yourself . . . supporter of order . . . a Jew with a red beard . . . take<\/p>\n\n\n\n

me in\u201d: D\u00f6blin, pp. 57, 70, 7, 20.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

39 \u201cvoluntary ghetto . . . their peculiarity\u201d: Hessel, p. 71.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

40 \u201cHe was no longer . . . some sort of mechanical order\u201d: Philipp Frank,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Einstein: His Life and Times, translated by George Rosen. New York:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alfred A. Knopf, 1947, p. 15.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

41 \u201cIt was when . . . he recalled one day\u201d: Antonina Vallentin, The Drama<\/p>\n\n\n\n

of Albert Einstein, translated by Moura Budberg. Garden City:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doubleday, 1954, p. 93. (Hereafter cited as Vallentin.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

41 878-square-kilometer<\/p>\n\n\n\n

metropolis . . . lakes, woods, and parks: White-Spunner,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

p. 284.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

43 \u201ca fashionable physician . . . postage stamps.\u201d \u201cIn the tranquillity . . .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

relativity\u201d: Albrecht F\u00f6lsing, Albert Einstein: A Biography, translated by<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ewald Osers. New York: Viking Penguin, 1997, pp. 601, 602.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

45 \u201cDear children . . . Yours, A. Einstein\u201d: Siegfried Grundmann, The<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Einstein Dossiers: Science and Politics\u2014Einstein\u2019s<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Berlin Period, with<\/p>\n\n\n\n

an Appendix on Einstein\u2019s FBI File, translated by Ann M. Hentschel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Berlin: Springer Verlag, 2004, p. 252.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

46 \u201cHow did you manage . . . fragrant sunny air\u201d: Vallentin, pp. 163\u201364.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SPRING<\/p>\n\n\n\n

47 \u201cIt was Berlin itself . . . meant Boys\u201d: Christopher Isherwood,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Christopher and His Kind. New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1976, p.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. (Hereafter cited as Christopher and His Kind.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

47 \u201cBoth beautiful, one a gazelle\u201d: Christopher and His Kind, p. 239.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

49 \u201cWystan had now begun . . . inner law of our own nature . . . whatever<\/p>\n\n\n\n

lies Bubi was telling him\u201d: Christopher and His Kind, pp. 2, 3, 6.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

50 \u201cI am a camera . . . not thinking\u201d: Christopher Isherwood, \u201cA Berlin<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Diary,\u201d in The Berlin Stories. New York: New Directions, 1945, p. 1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

52 \u201cThe most beautiful . . . in the moving pictures\u201d: Hessel, p. 175.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

52 \u201chundreds of yards . . . a first-class<\/p>\n\n\n\n

silent film\u201d: Billie Wilder in Billy<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wilder on Assignment: Dispatches from Weimar Berlin and Interwar<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vienna, translated by Shelley Frisch, edited by Noah Eisenberg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021, p. 187. (Hereafter cited as<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wilder.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

53 \u201cwhere I would never have gone . . . in our courtyards\u201d: Hessel, pp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

174\u201375.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

53 \u201cThe latter . . . naturally promiscuous\u201d: Christopher and His Kind, p. 6.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

55 \u201cPreparation for Pandora\u2019s Box . . . he picked Louise Brooks . . . Budd<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Schulberg . . . I quit . . . would become a burlesque\u201d: Louise Brooks,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPabst and Lulu,\u201d Sight and Sound, Summer 1965, p. 124. (Hereafter<\/p>\n\n\n\n

cited as Brooks.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

57 \u201cAs I was leaving the set . . . The smoke . . . fragments of reality\u201d: Brooks,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

p. 126.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

58 \u201cthe ruling class . . . She does nothing . . . the screen\u2019s first lesbian\u201d:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brooks, p. 124.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

62 \u201cBerlin has its own . . . mere sight of them\u201d: Hessel, p. 15.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

62 \u201cThe car shot along . . . excited dogs\u201d: Vicki Baum, Grand Hotel,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

translated by Basil Creighton. New York: NYRB Classics, 2016, p. 164.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Hereafter cited as Baum.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

64 \u201cBerlin divided into . . . was the Wannsee\u201d: Baum, p. 172.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

64 \u201cThe hall began to . . . hitting each other . . . thousand lights . . .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tauentzienstrasse\u201d: Baum, p. 201.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

64 \u201ccompletely alert . . . Radio Tower\u201d: Baum, p. 205.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

65 \u201cAre they going . . . It is finished\u201d: Baum, p. 165.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

65 \u201cat the hub of modern Berlin . . . out of the city\u201d: Baum, p. 196.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

67 \u201cgenerally keep the same rhythm\u201d . . . fifteen minutes in one place:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hessel, pp. 34\u201335.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

68 \u201cAt the Eden Hotel . . . The night club . . . meat appears at the cage\u201d:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brooks, pp. 125, 127.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

69 \u201cThe black man was tall,\u201d \u201cBut he doesn\u2019t . . . made up to look black\u201d:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Baum, pp. 199, 39\u201340.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

69 \u201cThe invention . . . screws up his courage\u201d: Hessel, p. 42.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

70 \u201cThese past ten days . . . dress shirts,\u201d \u201cI dance . . . with a thousand<\/p>\n\n\n\n

kinds\u201d: Wilder, pp. 39, 38.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SUMMER<\/p>\n\n\n\n

71 \u201cWhere do you hole up . . . already here,\u201d \u201cPeople quench . . . volume\u201d:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wilder, pp. 56, 80.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

73 \u201cWell, we have started . . . heads in the water . . . umbrella right in here\u201d:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wilder, pp. 80\u201381.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

74 \u201cPabst seemed to lose interest . . . as near as you\u2019ll get to mine . . . Pabst<\/p>\n\n\n\n

wanted realism . . . German champagne\u201d: Kenneth Tynan, \u201cThe Girl in<\/p>\n\n\n\n

the Black Helmet: Louise Brooks Remembers,\u201d New Yorker, June 11,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1979; reprinted in the August 29, 2022, issue, pp. 21\u201323.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

74 \u201cA very, very simple story . . . that\u2019s you and me\u201d: Wilder, p. 81.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

75 \u201chas its own beauty . . . found nowhere else\u201d: Walter Benjamin in<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Metropolis Berlin, p. 361.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

76 \u201cTauentzienstrasse and Kurf\u00fcrstendamm . . . adventure of the eyes\u201d:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hessel, p. 133.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

77 \u201cstill looking like new . . . collapse a little\u201d: Hessel, pp. 123\u201324.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

78 \u201cA restaurant is . . . inconsistency is consistent . . . morning papers\u201d:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Roth, pp. 149\u201350.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

79 \u201cBut if you do . . . vice versa,\u201d \u201cthe distance between . . . both camps\u201d:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hessel, pp. 114, 258.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

83 \u201chalf-empty<\/p>\n\n\n\n

house . . . grown tired of ballet\u201d: Vicki Baum quoted in<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Noah Isenberg\u2019s introduction to Grand Hotel (op. cit.), p. ix.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

86 \u201cCharlottengrad . . . Little Moscow\u201d: Karl Schl\u00f6gel, \u201cInvestigating<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Russian Berlin in Weimar Germany: Culture and Displacement in<\/p>\n\n\n\n

the Age of War and Revolution,\u201d published on Balticworlds.com,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

September 22, 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

87 \u201cNote the pat pattern . . . A half-empty<\/p>\n\n\n\n

package . . . a life so precisely . . .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An insane chess player\u201d: Vladimir Nabokov, Speak, Memory: An<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Autobiography Revisited. New York: Vintage International, 1989, p.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

229. (Hereafter cited as Speak, Memory.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

87 \u201chas been found lovable . . . detest all my other books\u201d: Vladimir<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nabokov, The Defense, translated by the author and Michael<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scammell. New York: Capricorn Books, 1970, p. 10. (Hereafter cited as<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Defense.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

88 \u201cThe room was clean and brightly,\u201d \u201cthe blazon of Berlin taxis,\u201d \u201clooked<\/p>\n\n\n\n

about him at the table . . . with interest, with pleasure\u201d: The Defense, pp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

76, 147, 133.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

88 \u201can animal aching yearn for the still fresh reek of Russia\u201d: Speak,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Memory, p. 220.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

90 \u201cThree kinds of flags . . . hatred in someone,\u201d \u201cthat ridiculous<\/p>\n\n\n\n

sequence . . . international treaties\u201d: Vladimir Nabokov, The Gift,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

translated by the author and Michael Scammell. New York: G. P.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Putnam\u2019s Sons, 1963, pp. 370, 48.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

91 \u201copera\u2019s enduring appeal . . . for the first\u201d: Wilder, p. 181.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

92 \u201cIn the evening saw Brecht\u2019s . . . always sold out\u201d: Kessler, p. 349.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

92 \u201cI was introduced . . . head on his shoulders\u201d: Kessler, p. 353.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

95 \u201cReality as such . . . draughtsmanship\u201d: Georg Grosz quoted in Kessler, p. 354.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

98 \u201cThe Jew is the cause . . . is still doing today!\u201d: Joseph Goebbels, \u201cThose<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damn Nazis,\u201d translated by Randall Bytwerk and made available<\/p>\n\n\n\n

online through his German Propaganda Archive, copyright 1999<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(web address: https:\/\/research.calvin.edu\/german-propaganda-<\/p>\n\n\n\n

archive\/haken32.htm).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FALL AND BEYOND<\/p>\n\n\n\n

99 \u201cExcursioners . . . even just a paddleboat\u201d: Hessel, p. 52.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

100 \u201cThe first thing to say . . . dust-blue<\/p>\n\n\n\n

sky\u201d: Hessel, p. 53.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

101 \u201cgrandiose . . . royal theater . . . I peer . . . Berlin marketplace\u201d: Hessel,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

p. 54.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

102 \u201cOur opera, Knobelsdorff\u2019s . . . We children of Berlin . . . days gone-by\u201d:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hessel, pp. 101\u2013102.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

102 \u201cJust walking around . . . becoming something else\u201d: Hessel, p. 7.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

103 \u201cFirst night of the Scala . . . not deeply stirred\u201d: Kessler, p. 363.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

104 \u201cI was sitting . . . consequences cannot be foreseen\u201d: Kessler, pp. 367\u201368.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

105 Dawes Plan, Young Plan, and economic data: Theo Balderston,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economics and Politics in the Weimar Republic. Cambridge, UK:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cambridge University Press, 2002, pp. 23\u201324.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

106 \u201cOn the evening before . . . A few hours later he was dead!\u201d: Kessler, p.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

370.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

106 \u201cIt is almost . . . Bismarck,\u201d \u201cIt becomes ever . . . entire nation\u201d: Kessler,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

pp. 368, 369.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

107 \u201cWhat I fear . . . establish a dictatorship\u201d: Kessler, p. 368.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

109 \u201c for the purpose . . . acquisition fund,\u201d \u201cEinstein Declines\u201d: Albrecht<\/p>\n\n\n\n

F\u00f6lsing, Albert Einstein (op. cit.), pp. 610, 611.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

109 \u201cThe whole thing,\u201d \u201cWearing sandals . . . reached the water\u201d: Vallentin,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

pp. 169, 168.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

110 \u201cHe had often met . . . struggle for an idea . . . a good democrat, Count<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kessler . . . natural instincts\u201d: Vallentin, p. 172.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

112 \u201cNationalism is an infantile,\u201d \u201cnot a madhouse of nationalism,\u201d \u201cWhen I<\/p>\n\n\n\n

met you,\u201d \u201cno pure race remains,\u201d \u201cvestal virgin guarding the fire,\u201d \u201clazy<\/p>\n\n\n\n

habits of thinking\u201d: George Sylvester Viereck, \u201cWhat Life Means to<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Einstein,\u201d Saturday Evening Post, October 26, 1929, pp. 117, 114, 113.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

116 Br\u00fcning\u2019s severe fiscal policies . . . aversion to the socialists: Theo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Balderston, Economics and Politics in the Weimar Republic (op. cit.), p.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

89.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

116 September 14, 1930 . . . Nazi Party had won 18.3 percent: Eric D.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Weitz, Weimar Germany. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

pp. 350\u201351.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

117 \u201cA black day for Germany,\u201d \u201ctoday\u2019s rioting will,\u201d \u201cNational Socialism is a<\/p>\n\n\n\n

delirium,\u201d \u201c for decades ahead\u201d: Kessler, pp. 396, 400\u2013401, 397.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

120 \u201cI\u2019m looking,\u201d \u201ctousled, furious,\u201d \u201clunch here, would you?\u201d: Christopher<\/p>\n\n\n\n

and His Kind, pp. 12, 13.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

122 \u201ctribe,\u201d \u201cmany other nations,\u201d \u201cof all three groups\u201d: Christopher and His<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kind, pp. 16, 17, 18.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

122 \u201cIndoors,\u201d \u201cought to have lived,\u201d \u201cmiddle-class<\/p>\n\n\n\n

queens,\u201d \u201crespectability\u201d:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Christopher and His Kind, pp. 22, 23, 25\u201326, 27.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

123 \u201cArab harem girl\u201d: Elisabeth Young-Bruehl,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hannah Arendt: For Love of<\/p>\n\n\n\n

the World. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1982, p. 102.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

123 \u201cwho had inherited,\u201d \u201csocial gathering,\u201d \u201chis devotees\u201d: Christopher and<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His Kind, pp. 33, 34.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

125 \u201cAs much as I love,\u201d \u201cgreasy tablecloth,\u201d \u201cdrew them\u201d: Hessel, pp. 209,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

210\u2013211, 211\u2013212.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

125 \u201cOnce in your life . . . can be had for pretty cheap\u201d: Hessel, p. 32.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

126 \u201cat Baby Goldschmidt-Rothschild\u2019s<\/p>\n\n\n\n

. . . to mere baubles\u201d: Kessler, p. 374.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

GOODBYE, LENIN<\/p>\n\n\n\n

180 \u201cno one has any intention of building a wall\u201d: White-Spunner,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

p. 390.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

184 Stasi at 97,000 and the network of informants at 173,000: Anna<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Funder, Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall. New York:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

HarperCollins, 2002, p. 57. (Hereafter cited as Funder.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

189 \u201cI\u2019m not going to the South Pole . . . once bitten, twice shy\u201d: Brigitte<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reimann, Siblings, translated by Lucy Jones. Oakland: Transit Books,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2022, p. 81.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

190 \u201cNothing else is quite . . . \u2018if that exists, we don\u2019t\u2019 \u201d: Michael Hofmann,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

reviewing Reimann\u2019s Siblings in the London Review of Books, March 2,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2023, p. 39.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MUSEUMS OF THINGS<\/p>\n\n\n\n

208 \u201cthe people . . . and elect another?\u201d: Brecht\u2019s poem quoted in White-Spunner,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

p. 379.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRANSPARENCY<\/p>\n\n\n\n

218 \u201cripping pages . . . considerably defaced\u201d: The Guardian, November 20,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2006.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

221 \u201cdazzling . . . sense of magic\u201d: Carlo Belli quoted in Kathleen James,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Erich Mendelsohn & the Architecture of German Modernism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1997, p. 6. (Hereafter cited as James.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

221 \u201ca stack of pancakes\u201d: Werner Hegemann quoted in James, pp. 197\u2013198.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

222 \u201cAn attempt . . . tension-free<\/p>\n\n\n\n

horizontal\u201d: Erich Mendelsohn quoted in<\/p>\n\n\n\n

James, pp. 94, 93.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

222 \u201conly a living inside . . . intensity of form\u201d: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe<\/p>\n\n\n\n

in Programs and Manifestoes on 20th-Century<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Architecture, translated<\/p>\n\n\n\n

by Michael Bullock, edited by Ulrich Conrads. Cambridge, MA: MIT<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Press, 1971, p. 102. (Hereafter cited as Programs and Manifestoes.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

223 \u201cArchitecture is the will . . . carry no weight\u201d: Mies in Programs and<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Manifestoes, pp. 74\u201375.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

223 \u201cI hope you will . . . unfolding of its form\u201d: Mies in Programs and<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Manifestoes, p. 154.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

226 \u201cWhen you look at it . . . doing it all again\u201d: Funder, p. 51.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NAMES AND CHANGES<\/p>\n\n\n\n

232 \u201cThis decision means . . . look to Willy Brandt\u201d: H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Miard-Delacroix,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Willy Brandt: The Life of a Statesman, translated by Isabelle<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chaize. London: I. B. Tauris, 2016, p. 210.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

234 \u201cThe currency reform . . . was also threatened by the currency reform\u201d:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

G\u00fcnter Grass, The Tin Drum, translated by Ralph Mannheim. New<\/p>\n\n\n\n

York: Vintage International, 1990, p. 461.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

236 \u201cThe Bendlerblock . . . appeals to me,\u201d \u201cwhat used to be Kaiserhof . . .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

don\u2019t they?\u201d: Len Deighton, Berlin Game. London: Hutchinson, 1983,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

pp. 104, 235.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

READING MATTERS<\/p>\n\n\n\n

243 \u201cPerhaps many . . . at the Institute,\u201d \u201cEverything would . . . an ending\u201d:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jenny Erpenbeck, Go, Went, Gone, translated by Susan Bernofsky.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

New York: New Directions, 2017, pp. 3, 6\u20137. (Hereafter cited as Go,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Went, Gone.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

244 \u201cHe thinks . . . that governs him\u201d: Go, Went, Gone, p. 4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

244 \u201cThe cheese . . . in Socialist times\u201d: Go, Went, Gone, p. 15.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

246 \u201cWhen my son . . . the same path,\u201d \u201cWhen you lose . . . criticizing it,\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI wanted . . . make things up\u201d: Conversation between the author and<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jenny Erpenbeck, Berlin, September 1, 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

248 \u201cI\u2019ve known . . . could be imagined\u201d: Jenny Erpenbeck, Not a Novel,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

translated by Kurt Beals. New York: New Directions, 2020, p. 31.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

248 \u201cSeventy-two<\/p>\n\n\n\n

percent . . . What is an archetype . . . both aspects at once\u201d:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Transcription of Jenny Erpenbeck\u2019s public presentation at Barnard<\/p>\n\n\n\n

College, New York, on September 28, 2023. (Hereafter cited as Erpenbeck at Barnard College.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

POLITICS AND MIGRATION<\/p>\n\n\n\n

259 \u201cThe Jew caused . . . broken our strength\u201d: Joseph Goebbels, \u201cThose<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damn Nazis\u201d (op. cit.).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

261 \u201cTo be proud of Germany . . . ashamed of Hitler\u201d: Washington Post,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

September 21, 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

263 \u201cThat was a game changer . . . liberal democracy\u201d: Thomas Haldenwang<\/p>\n\n\n\n

quoted in the New York Times, December 23, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

265 \u201cThe tense stand-off<\/p>\n\n\n\n

. . . if police entered it\u201d: Al Jazeera, July 27, 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

267 \u201cAll of Neuk\u00f6lln . . . in front of her vegetable cart\u201d: Hessel, p. 161.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

271 \u201cWhen they voted . . . forgotten ones\u201d: Erpenbeck at Barnard College.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

272 \u201cWhat is happening . . . too few dwellings\u201d: White-Spunner,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

pp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

446\u2013447.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

274 Data about Tempelhof refugee housing: Foreign Policy, September<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2, 2023; additional Tempelhof data: The Local (German edition),<\/p>\n\n\n\n

February 15, 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

274 Data about Tegel housing: New York Times, December 4, 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

274 \u201cIt\u2019s no secret . . . to go\u201d: Kai Wegner quoted in The Local (German<\/p>\n\n\n\n

edition), June 29, 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

THE BODY ONSTAGE<\/p>\n\n\n\n

296 \u201cIt was obvious . . . of the show . . . This location . . . after it was built\u201d:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Emily Kapnek\u2019s interview with David Pieper and Mario Wittman,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

posted online on September 8, 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

RIDING THE BUS<\/p>\n\n\n\n

302 \u201cNo, no . . . top of a double-decker\u201d:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cees Nooteboom, All Souls\u2019 Day,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

translated by Susan Massotty. London: MacLehose Press, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

317 \u201cnothing more than a massive,\u201d \u201ccollapse a little\u201d: Hessel, pp. 123\u2013124. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[To be added to Lesser Blog when e-book goes up, under the exact title given at the front.]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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