Ebook: Radio Benjamin

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.;Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Abbreviations and a Note on the Texts; Walter Benjamin on the Radio: An Introduction; Section I: Youth Hour: Radio Stories for Children; Chapter 1: Berlin Dialect; Chapter 2: Street Trade and Markets in Old and New Berlin; Chapter 3: Berlin Puppet Theater; Chapter 4: Demonic Berlin; Chapter 5: Berlin Guttersnipe; Chapter 6: Berlin Toy Tour I; Chapter 7: Berlin Toy Tour II; Chapter 8: Borsig; Chapter 9: The Rental Barracks; Chapter 10: Theodor Hosemann; Chapter 11: A Visit to the Brass Works; Chapter 12: Fontaneâ#x80;#x99;s Wanderings through the Mark Brandenburg