Unter den Linden

Unter den Linden is considered the most famous street in Berlin. The metropolitan boulevard leads from the present into the past and points to the future.

This book tells the story of the »Linden«: of the promenade’s creation, its transformation into a metropolitan boulevard, of the heyday during the Enlightenment, Classicism, Romanticism, Biedermeier, the beginning of Modernism. Readers marvel at the rejuvenated part of the boulevard, enjoy the culinary offerings, catch sight of the Palace and the Museum Island – the heart of Berlin.

 

»... the boulevard becomes the guiding thread of Seitz's biography, which he uses to recount not only the history of its construction, but also the social, intellectual, artistic and, yes, even the culinary history of Berlin. ... On the other hand, the author takes a hopeful view of the current development of the boulevard, which sank to a dead end before the fall of the Wall and is now beginning to fill with new life and which Seitz roams and describes in the last section of his biography as if he himself were one of the flâneurs of bygone times.« Andreas Conrad, Der Tagesspiegel

»Clever and knowledgeable, the author leads us through the eras, collects anecdotes, takes us to restaurants and salons that no longer exist. Nevertheless, he never gets lost in history, but provides contemporary facts and future perspectives.« stern