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Reading Across Cultures: Global Narratives, Hotels and Railway Stations
This is the final version of the article. Available from Springer Verlag via the DOI in this record.This article takes its cue from the English critic, novelist and painter John Berger. He argues that what we know determines what we see. Hotels and railway stations, though they differ in size, design and appearance, are places of temporary national and international congress that are recognized by everyone. They become visible or even iconic once their history or their role is turned into at least part of a wider narrativeâin literature, film or in other arts. This provides a representative focus by which we may read a cityâs or a nationâs past. In exemplifying such connections I focus first on the long-term history of FriedrichstraĂe station and some of the surrounding hotels in the context of the history of Berlin, situating them within the national and, by implication, also the international context. Secondly, I will consider the outbreak of the First World War in 1914 as an event in which the role of railway stations generated both personal and collective memories across cultures and over several decades
Carl Zuckmayer Collection 1945-1946
The collection contains three typewritten letters from Carl Zuckmayer to Eric Lipmann, two of which concern Zuckmayer's parents in Germany during World War II
and its immediate aftermath. Each letter includes Zuckmayer's signature.Processed for digitizationSent for digitizationReturned from digitizationLinked to online manifestationdigitize