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Radio Benjamin / edited by Lecia Rosenthal ; translated by Jonathan Lutes with Lisa Harries Schumann and Diana K. Reese.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: German Publication details: London ; New York : Verso, 2014.Description: xxix, 394 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781781685754 (hbk.)
Uniform titles:
  • Broadcasts. Selections. English
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 838.91209 WAL 23 008728
Online resources:
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: SECTION I YOUTH HOUR RADIO STORIES FOR CHILDREN 1.Berlin Dialect 2.Street Trade and Markets in Old and New Berlin 3.Berlin Puppet Theater 4.Demonic Berlin 5.Berlin Guttersnipe 6.Berlin Toy Tour I 7.Berlin Toy Tour II 8.Borsig 9.The Rental Barracks 10.Theodor Hosemann 11.A Visit to the Brass Works 12.Fontane's Wanderings through the Mark Brandenburg 13.Witch Trials 14.Robber Bands in Old Germany 15.The Gypsies 16.The Bastille, the Old French State Prison 17.Kaspar Hauser 18.Dr. Faust 19.Cagliostro 20.Postage Stamp Swindles 21.The Bootleggers 22.Naples 23.The Fall of Herculaneum and Pompeii 24.The Lisbon Earthquake 25.Theater Fire in Canton 26.The Railway Disaster at the Firth of Tay 27.The Mississippi Flood of 1927 28.True Dog Stories 29.A Crazy Mixed-Up Day: Thirty Brainteasers SECTION II RADIO PLAYS FOR CHILDREN 30.Much Ado About Kasper: A Radio Play Contents note continued: 31.The Cold Heart: A Radio Play Adapted from Wilhelm Hauff's Fairy Tale (with Ernst Schoen) SECTION III RADIO TALKS, PLAYS, DIALOGUES, AND LISTENING MODELS 32.Children's Literature 33."Sketched in Mobile Dust": A Novella 34.E. T. A. Hoffmann and Oskar Panizza 35.Prescriptions for Comedy Writers: A Conversation between Wilhelm Speyer and Walter Benjamin 36.Carousel of Jobs 37."A Pay Raise?! Whatever Gave You That Idea!" (with Wolf Zucker) 38.What the Germans Were Reading While Their Classical Authors Were Writing 39.Lichtenberg: A Cross-Section SECTION IV WRITINGS ON RADIO, OFF AIR 40.Reflections on Radio 41.Theater and Radio: On the Mutual Supervision of Their Educational Roles 42.Two Kinds of Popularity: Fundamental Principles for a Radio Play 43.The Situation in Broadcasting 44.Listening Models.
Summary: "From 1927 to 1933, Walter Benjamin wrote and presented more than eighty broadcasts over the new medium of radio. Radio Benjamin gathers, for the first time in English, the surviving transcripts. This eclectic collection shows the range of Benjamin's thinking and includes stories for young and old, plays, readings, book reviews, a novella, and discussions of topics ranging from finding a job to the architecture of Berlin to an account of the railway disaster at the Firth of Tay. Delightful and incisive, this is Walter Benjamin directing his sophisticated thinking to a mass audience"--
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Book Book Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore 838.91209 WAL 008792 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 008792
Book Book Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore 838.91209 WAL 008728 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 008728

"Translations in this volume are based on Benjamin's radio typescripts as published and edited in the Gesammelte Schriften."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: SECTION I YOUTH HOUR RADIO STORIES FOR CHILDREN
1.Berlin Dialect
2.Street Trade and Markets in Old and New Berlin
3.Berlin Puppet Theater
4.Demonic Berlin
5.Berlin Guttersnipe
6.Berlin Toy Tour I
7.Berlin Toy Tour II
8.Borsig
9.The Rental Barracks
10.Theodor Hosemann
11.A Visit to the Brass Works
12.Fontane's Wanderings through the Mark Brandenburg
13.Witch Trials
14.Robber Bands in Old Germany
15.The Gypsies
16.The Bastille, the Old French State Prison
17.Kaspar Hauser
18.Dr. Faust
19.Cagliostro
20.Postage Stamp Swindles
21.The Bootleggers
22.Naples
23.The Fall of Herculaneum and Pompeii
24.The Lisbon Earthquake
25.Theater Fire in Canton
26.The Railway Disaster at the Firth of Tay
27.The Mississippi Flood of 1927
28.True Dog Stories
29.A Crazy Mixed-Up Day: Thirty Brainteasers
SECTION II RADIO PLAYS FOR CHILDREN
30.Much Ado About Kasper: A Radio Play
Contents note continued: 31.The Cold Heart: A Radio Play Adapted from Wilhelm Hauff's Fairy Tale (with Ernst Schoen)
SECTION III RADIO TALKS, PLAYS, DIALOGUES, AND LISTENING MODELS
32.Children's Literature
33."Sketched in Mobile Dust": A Novella
34.E. T. A. Hoffmann and Oskar Panizza
35.Prescriptions for Comedy Writers: A Conversation between Wilhelm Speyer and Walter Benjamin
36.Carousel of Jobs
37."A Pay Raise?! Whatever Gave You That Idea!" (with Wolf Zucker)
38.What the Germans Were Reading While Their Classical Authors Were Writing
39.Lichtenberg: A Cross-Section
SECTION IV WRITINGS ON RADIO, OFF AIR
40.Reflections on Radio
41.Theater and Radio: On the Mutual Supervision of Their Educational Roles
42.Two Kinds of Popularity: Fundamental Principles for a Radio Play
43.The Situation in Broadcasting
44.Listening Models.

"From 1927 to 1933, Walter Benjamin wrote and presented more than eighty broadcasts over the new medium of radio. Radio Benjamin gathers, for the first time in English, the surviving transcripts. This eclectic collection shows the range of Benjamin's thinking and includes stories for young and old, plays, readings, book reviews, a novella, and discussions of topics ranging from finding a job to the architecture of Berlin to an account of the railway disaster at the Firth of Tay. Delightful and incisive, this is Walter Benjamin directing his sophisticated thinking to a mass audience"--

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