Berlin Childhood around 1900

A new translation of Benjamin's moving and groundbreaking memoir of growing up.

List of contents

Translator’s Preface
Introduction
Foreword

Loggias
Kaiser Panorama
Victory Column
The Telephone
Butterfly Hunt
Tiergarten
Having Come Too Late
Boys’ Books
Winter Morning
Steglitzer, Corner of Genthiner
Market Hall
Fever
The Otter
Pfaueninsel and Glienicke
News of a Death
Blumeshof 12
Winter Evening
Crooked Street
The Stocking
The Mummerehlen
Hiding Places
A Ghost
Accidents and Crimes
Colors
The Sewing Box
The Moon
Two Brass Bands

Appendix
The Carousel
Awakening of the Sex Drive

Afterword: Theodor W. Adorno

About the author

Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) was a German-Jewish Marxist literary critic, essayist, translator and philosopher. He was associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory and is the author of Illuminations, The Arcades Project, and The Origin of German Tragic Drama. In 1940, he was in Spain, fleeing the Nazis and en route to the United States, when Franco's government cancelled his visa. Expecting repatriation, he took his own life.Theodor Adorno was director of the Institute for Social Research at the University of Frankfurt from 1959 until his death in 1969. His works include In Search of Wagner; Aesthetic Theory; Negative Dialectics; and (with Max Horkheimer) Dialectic of Enlightenment and Towards a New Manifesto.

Product details

• Authors: Walter Benjamin
• Assisted by: Antonia Hofstaetter (Introduction), Adorno Theodor (Afterword), Nicholsen Shierry Weber (Translation)
• Publisher: Pan macmillan Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 18.11.2025
• EAN: 9781836740148
• ISBN: 978-1-83674-014-8
• No. of pages: 144
• Weight: 200 g
• Subjects: Berlin, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Philosophers, Biography: general, Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Individual Philosophers, Western philosophy from c 1800, Biography: philosophy and social sciences, Western Philosophy, From C 1900 -