Gay Berlin: Birthplace of a Modern Identity

By Robert Beachy

"A detailed historical look at the surprising ways in which the uninhibited urban sexuality, sexual experimentation and medical advances of pre-Weimar Berlin created and molded our modern understan...

Berlin

By Giles MacDonogh

In this book Giles MacDonogh shows Berlin in its various incarnations: the trading town, the royal residence, the garrison town, and the industrial city; the capital of the new German nation and th...

Gay Berlin

By Robert Beachy

Winner of Randy Shilts AwardIn the half century before the Nazis rose to power, Berlin became the undisputed gay capital of the world. Activists and medical professionals made it a city of firsts—t...

Auden and Isherwood

By Norman Page

Architecture in progress

By

Menzel's Realism: Art and Embodiment in Nineteenth-Century Berlin

By Michael Fried

"Adolph Menzel was one of the most important German artists of the nineteenth century, yet he is scarcely known outside his native land. In this book a leading art historian contends that Menzel de...

Berlin

By Giles MacDonogh

Underground in Berlin: A Young Woman's Extraordinary Tale of Survival in the Heart of Nazi Germany

By Marie Simon

An Underground Life: Memoirs of a Gay Jew in Nazi Berlin

By Frank Heibert, Gad Beck

Berlin and Its Culture: A Historical Portrait

By Ronald Taylor