City of Exiles: Berlin from the outside in
Sydney born writer and journalist Stuart Braun is in Australia to launch his book “City of Exiles” – an insight into his adopted home, Berlin.
“Berlin: no man’s land, frontier, a city adrift in the sands of Central Europe. Destroyed, divided and held captive during a century of chaos and upheaval, borderless Berlin has yet remained a city where drifters, dreamers and outsiders can find a place—and finally run free. In City of Exiles, Stuart Braun evokes the restless spirits that have come and gone from Berlin across the last century, the itinerants who are the source of the Berliner Luft, the special free air that infuses this beguiling metropolis.”
“City of Exiles: Berlin from the outside in” is the timely story of the revolutionary artists and restless spirits – from Einstein to Iggy Pop, Nick Cave and exiled director Laura Poitras – that have found sanctuary in Berlin across the last century. Published to much acclaim in Berlin earlier this year by Noctua Press and released last month in London this unique take on one of the world’s most creative cities will now be launched in Sydney and Melbourne in December.
Stuart Braun relocated to Berlin in 2009 and wrote widely on the city (The Guardian, Al Jazeera, Deutsche Welle, The Spectator) before conceiving a book that explores Berlin’s special allure for 200 odd free spirits, radicals, refugees and artists – and which asks universal questions about the kinds of cities we want to live in.
What: book launch of “City of Exiles:Berlin from the outside in” by Stuart Braun
When: Tuesday 1st December 7.00pm
Where: The Hollywood Hotel 2 Foster Street, Surry Hills, NSW
Costs: Free
Examples of Exiles written about:
Moses Mendelssohn · Voltaire · Rahel Varnhagen · Fanny Lewald · Hannah Arendt · Iggy Pop · Albert Einstein · Rosa Luxemburg · W. E. B. Du Bois · Siegfried Kracauer · Franz Kafka · Baroness Elsa Von Freytag-Loringhoven (nee Else Plötz) · Else Lasker-Schüle · Karl Kraus · Ernst Ludwig Kirchner · John Henry Mackay · Vladimir Nabokov · Wilhelm von Humboldt · Nuam Gabo · Mark Twain · Edward Munch · Max Reinhardt · August Strindberg · El Lissitzky · Boris Pasternak · Ilya Ehrenburg · Marc Chagall · Berenice Abbott · László Moholy-Nagy · Joseph Roth · Djuna Barnes · Fritz Lang · Bertolt Brecht · Thelma Wood · G. W. Pabst · Hannah Höch · Til Brugman · Louise Brooks · Michael Danzi · Christopher Isherwood · W. H. Auden · Jean Ross · Paul Bowles · Gustave Mahler · Gotthold Lessing · Heinrich Heine · Ferdinand Lassalle · Aras Ören · George Hegel · Ernst Dronke · August Bebel · Gustav Landauer · Heinrich Eduard Jacob · Walter Gropius · Erich Mendelssohn · Count Harry Kessler · Käthe Kollwitz · Dietrich Bonhoeffer · Arnold Schönberg · F.T. Marinetti · Stephen Spender · Robert McAlmon · Paul Norden · Walter Nelson · Hanns Eisler · Helene Weigel · Aleister Crowley · Karl Marx · Hertha Müller · David Bowie · Walter Gropius · Josephine Baker · Essad Bey · Willy Haas · Billy Wilder · George Clare · Imre Kertész · Clare Wigfall · Michael S. Cullen · Fritz Teufel · Rainer Langhans · Uschi Obermaier · David Rimmer · Günter Grass · Mark Reeder · Klaus Kürvers · Nan Goldin · Nick Cave · Mick Harvey · Anita Lane · Danielle de Picciotto · Miss Jayne County · Angie Stardust · Tara O’Hara · Romy Haag · Françoise Cactus · Coco Nut · Brezel Göring · Michael Hughes