Radio Benjamin [US and CA version ed.] 9781781685761, 9781781687017, 9781781685754, 1781685762

From 1927 to 1933, Walter Benjamin wrote and presented more than eighty broadcasts over the new medium of radio. Radio B

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Radio Benjamin [US and CA version ed.]
 9781781685761, 9781781687017, 9781781685754, 1781685762

Table of contents :
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Abbreviations and a Note on the Texts
Walter Benjamin on the Radio: An Introduction
Section I: Youth Hour: Radio Stories for Children
Chapter 1: Berlin Dialect
Chapter 2: Street Trade and Markets in Old and New Berlin
Chapter 3: Berlin Puppet Theater
Chapter 4: Demonic Berlin
Chapter 5: Berlin Guttersnipe
Chapter 6: Berlin Toy Tour I
Chapter 7: Berlin Toy Tour II
Chapter 8: Borsig
Chapter 9: The Rental Barracks
Chapter 10: Theodor Hosemann
Chapter 11: A Visit to the Brass Works
Chapter 12: Fontaneâ#x80
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Chapter 15: The Gypsies
Chapter 16: The Bastille, the Old French State Prison
Chapter 17: Kaspar Hauser
Chapter l8: Dr. Faust
Chapter 19: Cagliostro
Chapter 20: Postage Stamp Swindles
Chapter 21: The Bootleggers
Chapter 22: Naples
Chapter 23: The Fall of Herculaneum and Pompeii
Chapter 24: The Lisbon Earthquake
Chapter 25: Theater Fire in Canton
Chapter 26: The Railway Disaster at the Firth of Tay
Chapter 27: The Mississippi Flood of 1927
Chapter 28: True Dog Stories
Chapter 29: A Crazy Mixed-Up Day: Section II: Radio Plays for ChildrenChapter 30: Much Ado About Kasper A Radio Play
Chapter 31: The Cold Heart
Section III: Radio Talks, Plays, Dialogues, and Listening Models
Chapter 32: Childrenâ#x80
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Chapter 34: E. T. A. Hoffmann and Oskar Panizza
Chapter 35: Prescriptions for Comedy Writers
Chapter 36: Carousel of Jobs
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Chapter 38: What the Germans Were Reading While Their Classical Authors Were Writing
Chapter 39: Lichtenberg
Section IV: Writings on Radio, Off Air Chapter 40: Reflections on RadioChapter 41: Theater and Radio
Chapter 42: Two Kinds of Popularity
Chapter 43: The Situation in Broadcasting
Chapter 44: Listening Models
Appendix: Walter Benjaminâ#x80
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Notes on Contributors

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