Lyn Marven is a Lecturer in German at the University of Liverpool; she researches and translates contemporary literature, with a particular interest in Berlin. She obtained her DPhil from Oxford University, and taught there and at Manchester University, as well as living for a time in Berlin.
Helen Constantine is editor of the magazine Modern Poetry in Translation and the editor and translator of Paris Tales and French Tales.

• Introduction


• 1: Siegfried Kracauer: 'Aus dem Fenster gesehen' (Seen From the Window)


• 2: Alfred Döblin: 'Östlich um den Alexanderplatz' (East of Alexanderplatz)


• 3: Franz Hessel: excerpt from 'Spazieren in Berlin' (A Flaneur in Berlin)


• 4: Max Frisch: 'Berlin, November 1947'


• 5: Uwe Johnson: 'Berliner Stadtbahn' (Berlin S-Bahn)


• 6: Günter Kunert: 'Alltägliche Geschichte einer Berliner Straße' (Everyday Story of a Berlin Street)


• 7: Günter de Bruyn: 'Berlin, Große Hamburger' (Große Hamburger Street)


• 8: Monika Maron: 'Geburtsort Berlin' (Place of Birth: Berlin)


• 9: Emine Sevgi Özdamar: 'Mein Berlin' (My Berlin)


• 10: Durs Grünbein: 'Sommerzeit' (Summertime)


• 11: Inka Bach: 'Besetzer' (Squatters)


• 12: Annett Gröschner: 'Rest Esplanade' (The Remains of the Hotel Esplanade)


• 13: Fridolin Schley: 'Das Herz der Republik' (The Heart of the Republic)


• 14: Carmen Francesca Banciu: 'Berlin ist mein Paris' (Berlin is my Paris)


• 15: Katrin Röggla: 'fraktionen' (factions)


• 16: Wladimir Kaminer: 'Stadtführer Berlin' (Berlin Guide)


• 17: Ulrike Draesner: 'Gina Regina'

Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, this attractive collection of translated stories evokes the many transformations the city has undergone. Including both well-known and new writers, the book will appeal to people who love travelling or are armchair travellers, as much as to those who love Berlin.