Walter Benjamin - Berlin Childhood around 1900 magazine Adrienne Telford

Adrienne Telford

who she describes as ‘my shelter and my storm’

Zusammen mit ihrer Familie schlachtet sie Statussymbole wie einen Mercedes Benz aus

The book also includes black and white photos

about dignity – from them

Walter Benjamin - Berlin Childhood around 1900 magazine Adrienne TelfordPresents the author's recollection of his childhood in an upper middle class Jewish home in Berlin's West End. This book focuses not on persons or events but on places and things, all seen from the perspective of a child, a collector, flaneur, and allegorist in one. It tells about the parks, streets, schoolrooms, and interiors of the metropolis. Afterword by Theodor Adorno Introduction by Antonia Hofstatter Translated by Shierry Weber Nicholsen