Berlin Childhood around 1900

Walter Benjamin

Translated by Howard Eiland

    Translator's Foreword

    "Hope in the Past: On Walter Benjamin"
    by Peter Szondi

    Berlin Childhood around 1900: Final Version

    Loggias * Imperial Panorama * Victory Column * The Telephone * Butterfly Hunt * Tiergarten * Tardy Arrival * Boys' Books * Winter Morning * At the Corner of Steglitzer and Genthiner * Two Enigmas * Market Hall * The Fever * The Otter * Peacock Island and Glienicke * News of a Death * Blumeshof 12 * Winter Evening * Crooked Street * The Sock * The Mummerehlen * Hiding Places * A Ghost * A Christmas Angel * Misfortunes and Crimes * Colors * The Sewing Box * The Moon * Two Brass Bands * The Little Hunchback * The Carousel * Sexual Awakening

    From the 1932-1934 Version

    Departure and Return * The Larder * News of a Death * The Mummerehlen * Society * The Reading Box * Monkey Theater * School Library * New Companion of German Youth * The Desk * Cabinets * Beggars and Whores * The Moon

    Complete Table of Contents, 1932-1934 Version

    Notes

    Credits for Illustrations

    Index

    Illustrations

    Walter Benjamin and his brother Georg

    The Victory Column on Königsplatz

    The goldfish pond in the Tiergarten

    Berlin's Tiergarten in winter

    Market hall on Magdeburger Platz

    Interior of a middle-class German home

    Courtyard on Fischerstrasse in Old Berlin

  • Cover: Berlin Childhood around 1900
  • A photo of the author

Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) was the author of many works of literary and cultural analysis.

Howard Eiland is Lecturer in Literature at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.