Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Pictures of a City at Work, Berlin, circa 1890-1930: Visual Reflections on Social Structures and Technology in the Modern Urban Construct -- 2. The Beauty of the Metropolis: Toward an Aesthetic Urbanism in Turn-of-the-Century Berlin -- 3. "A New Beauty": Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's Images of Berlin -- 4. Modernity, Civic Identity, and Metropolitan Entertainment: Vaudeville, Cabaret, and Revue in Berlin, 1900-1933 -- 5. Lustmord: Inside the Windows of the Metropolis -- 6. The City as Megaphone in Alfred Döblin's Berlin Alexanderplatz -- 7. Deciphering the Hieroglyphics of Weimar Berlin: Siegfried Kracauer -- 8. Retrieving the City as Heimat: Berlin in Nazi Cinema -- 9. Lyric Poetry in Berlin since 1961 -- 10. Berlin: Backdrop, Stage, or Actor? Images of the City in Recent GDR Fiction -- 11. Fremde in Berlin: The Outsiders' View from the Inside -- 12. Panem et Circenses: Berlin's Anniversaries as Political Happenings -- Afterword: Writing about Berlin -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- l -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.