'Berlin Calling' Book Presentation In Budapest, 2 November

  • 31 Oct 2017 4:00 AM
'Berlin Calling' Book Presentation In Budapest, 2 November
Event Moderator Adam LeBor. "Hockenos's insightful book captures the history of [Berlin’s] subculture... detailing them with sympathy and an analytic eye... Hockenos illustrates this work with photos and posters that stimulate the mind and delight the eye. "- Library Journal

"The timeliness of Hockenos’ intelligent analysis of the effect of a wall on a people and their culture is uncanny. Here, Berlin-based Hockenos uses music as the lens through which to understand the subcultures, countercultures, evolutions, and devolutions that echoed through a West Berlin isolated by a wall..."  - Booklist

"Berlin Calling is an invaluable history of the divided and then reunified city. West Berlin, with its bars that never closed and hard narcotics practically on tap, beckoned and inspired Bowie, Iggy, Brian Eno, and Nick Cave. An untold tale until now is that of the punks, anarchists, dissidents and yes, even neo-Nazis, who rebelled against totalitarian rule in the east. I know of no other book that tells their story. Hockenos has made a vital contribution to the cultural history of post-WWII Europe. A must-read."  - Gillian McCain, co-author of Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk

Date and time: Thursday at 18:00–20:00

Venue: Massolit Books & Café in Budapest
Address: Nagy Diófa utca 30, Budapest, Hungary, 1072

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