What I Saw: Reports from Berlin 1920-1933

Index

Page numbers in italics refer to illustrations.

Admiral’s Palace (steam baths), 69–73, 70

Adriatic Sea, 215

Albert’s Cellar, 56–57

Alexanderplatz, 31, 53, 57, 81

Altenberg, Peter, 212–13

Angels’ Palace (Café Dalles), 54–55

Annie (from Bavaria) (Gipsdiele friend), 60–61

Annie (from Silesia) (Gipsdiele friend), 60–61

Apache Fritz, 54

Ariosto, Ludovico, 184

Arminiusplatz, 81

“Arnhem” (char.), 183n

Austria, 17, 179n, 213, 215

Barthels, Adolf, 216

Baruch (middleman), 32–34

Becker, Carl Heinrich, 202

Beckmann, Frieda, 201

Beer-Hoffmann, Richard, 213

Berlin:

architecture and design of, 115–18

barbershop in, 130, 131–34

bicycle races in, 151, 160, 161–65

City Hall in, 111

department stores in, 109, 119–23, 120

election campaign in, 189–92

election propaganda in, 188

homeless in, 62, 63–68

nightclubs in, 170, 171–75

police station in, 79–82

Reichstag in, 177, 193–98, 194, 200, 203

roadwork in, 83, 98

Roth’s walk in, 23–27

skyscrapers in, 110, 111–14

traffic in, 97–103

triangular railway junction of, 104, 105–8

West End of, 138, 173, 174

Berlin Wall, 14

Bersin, Lieutenant Colonel, 67

Bienert, Michael, 13–14

Big Max (plasterer) (Gipsdiele friend), 60–61

Bismarck, Otto von, 202, 209, 210

Blumenthal, Oscar, 213

Brahe, Tycho, 213

Breslau, 13

Brod, Max, 213

Bruckner, Anton, 202

Brünningen, Hans Flesch von, 18

Budapest, 35, 56

Café Dalles (Angels’ Palace), 54–55

Café des Westens, 135, 137, 138

“Café Grössenwahn” (“Café Megalomania”), 136n

Canaan, 49

Carossa, Hans, 217

Chesterfield, Philip Stanhope, Lord, 184

Cologne, 13

Conrad, Joseph, 18

Cracow, 33

Czechowski, Heinz, 20

d’Abernon, Lord, 196

Dante Alighieri, 70

Döblin, Alfred, 213

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 215

Drohobycz, 42

Düsseldorf, 13

East Prussia, 63, 186

Ebert, Friedrich, 20, 199–204, 199n, 200

Elli (Café Dalles denizen), 54

Elsasser Strasse, 60

Else (Gipsdiele friend), 60

Erna (Gipsdiele friend), 61

Fechter, Paul, 216

Feuchtwanger, Lion, 214

France, 148, 179n, 196, 215

Frank, Bruno, 213

Frankfurt, 13

Franz (burglar), 58

Fred (lightbulb thief), 59–60

Frederick the Great, 126, 127, 157n

Friedrichstrasse, 69, 70, 73, 174

Fröbelstrasse, 63–65

Fulda, Ludwig, 213

Fürst, Geza, 18, 35–39

Galicia, 17, 37

Gay, Peter, 12

Georg B., 86–88

Gipsdiele, 60–61

Gipsstrasse, 60

Gleisdreieck, 20

Glorietta Hill, 18

Goebbels, Joseph, 197n, 208, 212

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 11, 154, 184

Göring, Hermann, 208

Great Britain, 11, 72, 215

Grenadierstrasse, 19, 36, 36, 39, 42, 45–47, 46

Grete (Margot) (Gipsdiele friend), 60

Gustav, 59

Halensee Bridge, 157

Hamburg, 35, 38, 132

Hamsun, Knut, 18

Harden, Maximilian, 213

Hasenclever, Walter, 213

Hauptmann, Gerhart, 208

Hegemann, Werner, 126–28

Hermann, Georg, 213

Hermannplatz, 120

Heyse, Paul, 213

Hindenburg, Paul von, 195n, 211, 212

Hiram, King of Tyre, 41, 44

Hirtenstrasse, 30, 31–34, 36, 42, 43, 56

Hitler, Adolf, 195n, 208n, 210, 214

Hofmann, Michael, 11–20

Hofmannsthal, Hugo von, 213

Hohenzollerns, 210

Holland, 37

Holstein, 66

Hungary, 35, 37, 56

Ibycus, 82

Isherwood, Christopher, 11

Italy, 196

Jarrell, Randall, 16, 19

Jerusalem, 45, 47

Jessner, Leopold, 201

Kafka, Franz, 213

Kaiserdamm, 162

Kant, Immanuel, 184

Karlchen (lightbulb thief), 59–60

Karstadt (department store), 109, 120

Kerr, Alfred, 213

Kessler, Count, 12

Kesten, Hermann, 214

Kiepenheuer, Gustav, 16–17

Kirchner, Ernst Ludwig, 18

Kirsch (burglar), 54–55

Kisch, Egon Erwin, 214

Koeppen, Wolfgang, 136n

Königsallee, 139, 183

Königsberg, 13, 145n

Königsplatz, 193, 202, 203

Kracauer, Siegfried, 214

Kraus, Karl, 213

Krug, Arnold, 201

Kruleweit, Franz, 201

Kurfürstendamm, 13, 15, 21, 22, 24, 29, 32, 116, 129, 139, 144, 146, 147–50, 157

Lasker-Schüler, Else, 213

Lenin, V. I., 215

Liebknecht, Karl, 12

Lindenpassage, 153

Linienstrasse, 59

Lissauer, Ernst, 216

Little Bertha (Gipsdiele friend), 60

Lloyd, Harold, 169

London, 18

“Long Hermann,” 59

Ludendorff, Erich von, 137, 195, 196–97

Luna Park, 157–59, 158

Luther, Martin, 185

Luxemburg, Rosa, 12

Mann, Klaus, 213

Mann, Thomas, 208, 213

Marcu, Valeriu, 214

Margot (Grete) (Gipsdiele friend), 60

Marx, Wilhelm, 202

Mehring, Walter, 214

Merkel, Hermann, 186

Mexico, 85

Miller, Henry, 18

Montefiore, Moses, 32

Mörike, Eduard, 131, 131n, 134

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 202

Mulackstrasse, 58–59

Munich, 145n

Münzstrasse, 46, 53

Musil, Robert, 183n

Mussolini, Benito, 215

Neue Schönhauser Strasse, 53, 54

Neumann, Alfred, 213

Neumann, Robert, 213

New York, N.Y., 18, 89, 112, 148

Offenbach, Jacques, 169

Oslo, 18

Palestine, 19, 37, 47, 49–50

panopticum (waxworks), 152, 153–56, 153n

Panter, Peter, 213

Paris, 16, 18, 148, 171

Paul (Albert’s Cellar regular), 56

Paula (prostitute), 56

Picard, Max, 214

Plath, Sylvia, 108n

Plutarch, 184

Polgar, Alfred, 214

Potsdamer Platz, 17–18, 86, 87, 97, 190, 191

Potsdam Station, 81, 203

Prenzlauer Allee, 65

Prussia, 66, 80n, 210, 213

Rathenau, Walther, 12, 183–87, 183n, 193

Rathenau Museum, 12, 182, 183–87

Redslob, 201

Reese’s Restaurant, 55–56

Regine (Albert’s Cellar regular), 56

Reifenberg, Benno, 15–16

Rhineland, 66

Richard the Red (Red Richard) (newspaper waiter), 20, 135, 136, 137–39

Riga, 67

Rilke, Rainer Maria, 18, 95n, 107n, 164n, 213

Romania, 35

Romanisches Café, 135–36, 138

Rudel, Hugo, 202

Rudolf (Therese’s former friend), 57

Rummelsburg, 85–88

Russia, 67

S-Bahn, 20, 31, 87, 89–92, 90, 94

passengers on, 93–96, 94

Schiller, Friedrich von, 11

Schiller Park, 20, 74, 75–77

Schillings, Max von, 202

Schönhauser Strasse, 58

Schönhauser Tor, 60

Schwannecke’s, 140, 141–45

Schwarzbach, L., 42

Sebald, W. G., 42n

Shakespeare, William, 135

“Siegessäule” (Victory Column), 178, 179–81

Simsonstrasse, 194

Slovakia, 35

Solomon, King, 41–44

Spain, 85

Spandauer Strasse, 81, 82

Spree, the, 81

State Opera House, 201–2

Sternheim, Carl, 213

Sternkucker’s bookstore, 42

Storm, Theodor, 131, 131n, 134

Stratford-on-Avon, 11

Stresemann, Gustav, 208n

Tegeler Willy (Café Dalles denizen), 54

Tempelhof, 145n

Therese (prostitute), 57

Tieck, Johann Ludwig, 184

Tiergarten, 77, 81, 180

Tippel Pub, 59–60

Toller, Ernst, 213

Tolstoy, Leo, 215

Trier, Walter, 136

Trischke, Herr (barber), 132–33

Trotsky, Leon, 215

Tyre, 41

U-Bahn, 31

UFA Palace, 84, 166, 167–69, 167n

Ukraine, 37

Ungar, Hermann, 214

United States, 11, 17, 148, 196, 202

Vendler, Helen, 16

Victory Column (“Siegessäule”), 178, 179–81

Vienna, 16–17, 18, 56, 139

Voltaire, 126

Wagner, Richard, 80

Wassermann, Jakob, 214, 216

Wedding, 77

Weimar Republic, 11–12, 13

Weinmeisterstrasse, 53, 56

Weiss, Ernst, 214

Weissensee, 63

Weitig, Robert, 201

Werfel, Franz, 214

Wiesenstrasse, 37, 38

Wilde, Oscar, 44

Wilhelm II, Emperor of Germany, 137, 194, 209, 210

Wilhelmstrasse, 199–200

Willy’s bodega, 58–59

Wölfling, Leopold, 139

Wolfskehl, Karl, 214

Zion, 50

Zoologischer Garten, 147

Zuckermann, H., 216

Zuckmayer, Carl, 214, 216

Zweig, Arnold, 214

Zweig, Stefan, 214