street/memory

 

street life

            reading: selections from Alfred Döblin's Berlin Alexanderplatz

              excerpt from Rainald Goetz's Abfall für Alle

 

inception to completion: the memorial

          reading: Capital Dilemma ("Monuments to Victims, Not Heroes," 145-154)

                  Roger Cohen for the NYT, "Berlin Holocaust Memorial Approved"

                  Nicolai Ouroussoff for the NYT, "A Forest of Pillars, Recalling the Unimaginable"

politics of memory                

  reading: the gravest generation, günter grass

            Capital Dilemma ("Hesitation by Design," 155-158)

              Ghosts of Berlin (Introduction, 1-5)