Why a Booktrail?
1920s: An iconic place in German history
Alexanderplatz
Why a Booktrail?
1920s: An iconic place in German history
What you need to know before your trail
As Franz Biberkopf leaves prison, he vows to lead a decent life on the grimy streets of Weimar Berlin.
The novel includes several historic references (for example the Airship Italia’s crash whilst trying to fly over the north pole) and is both a string of consciousness from a man trying to adapt to a changing world and that world itself trying to adapt to outside forces.
Travel Guide
An interesting portrayal of life in Weimar Berlin. Highly evocative of the life of a city at war and its underbelly of conflict: political, sexual and social. This is the experiences of those that not only were in the war or involved in some way but those who experienced it in all its forms. Descriptions of death and murder are hard to take but this stream of consciousness is evocative of a time no one wants to revisit apart from in a book.
Alexanderplatz – the title of the novel is a large hub within the centre of Berlin – named after a Russian Tsar and the square in which a million people gathered to demonstrate before the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.
You can see the tallest TV tower there – the highest structure in Berlin with a good viewing tower and the landmark World Clock
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