Berlin Triptych

Beschreibung

At the end of the last millenium, David Wagner visited various Berlin locations and described what he saw – people, businesses, architecture, the food, the flora, the tempo of life. He then revisited them in 2013 and cast the same attentive eye on the changes that had taken place there. Friedrichstraße in the center of the city, Schönhauser Allee in the east and Café M in the west all bear the marks of the cultural shifts and development that have altered the city in the era.

Author(s) / Translator(s)

David Wagner, born in 1971, and has lived in Berlin since 1991. His prize-winning debut novel My Night-Blue Trousers was published in 2000, and his book Four Apples was long-listed for the German Book Prize. His best-selling novel Lives won the 2013 Leipzig Book Fair Prize. He has written extensively about the city of Berlin in collections such as Mauer Park and What Colour Is Berlin.

Katy Derbyshire, born in London and based in Berlin for more than twenty years, She translates contemporary German writers. Her published work includes books by Clemens Meyer, Christa Wolf, Heike Geissler and Olga Grjasnowa.