Berlin Calling - A Story of Anarchy, Music, the Wall, and the Birth of the New Berlin

Informationen zum Autor Paul Hockenos is an American journalist and author who writes for The Nation , the Chronicle of Higher Education , Foreign Policy , the New York Times , and many other media outlets. He has held prize fellowships with the American Academy in Berlin, the European Journalism College, the German Marshall Fund of the United States, and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He is the author of three books, including Joschka Fischer and the Making of the Berlin Republic , and lives in Berlin. Klappentext An "account of the 1989 'peaceful revolution' in East Germany that upended communism and the tumultuous years of artistic ferment, political improvisation, and pirate utopias that followed. It's the story of a newly undivided Berlin when protest and punk rock, bohemia and direct democracy, techno and free theater were the order of the day. In a story stocked with ... characters from Berlin's highly politicized undergrounds--including playwright Heiner Muller, cult figure Blixa Bargeld, ... the ... French Wall artist Thierry Noir, the American multimedia artist Danielle de Picciotto, ... and David Bowie during his Ziggy Stardust incarnation--Hockenos argues that the DIY energy and raw urban vibe of the early 1990s shaped the new Berlin and still pulses through the city today"--Provided by publisher. Zusammenfassung An exhilarating journey through the subcultures, occupied squats, and late-night scenes in the anarchic first few years of Berlin after the fall of the wall

Product details

• Authors: Paul Hockenos
• Publisher: New press usa
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2017
• EAN: 9781620971956
• ISBN: 978-1-62097-195-6
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 126 mm x 27 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music; Anarchismus, Berlin, Punk, Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte, Europäische Geschichte, Kunst, allgemein, Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte, Musikwissenschaft und Musiktheorie, Pop (Musik), Berlin / Politik, Zeitgeschichte, Englische Bücher / Geschichte, Kulturgeschichte, Zeitgeschichte, HISTORY / Europe / Eastern, ART / Art & Politics, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Punk