Read Berlin Alexanderplatz

Peter Lorre as a child murderer hunted by the police and the underworld; Lang's first sound film.

Four generations of a Lubeck merchant family in decline; Mann's Nobel novel at 26.

Seven years in a Davos sanatorium arguing about Europe before 1914.

An ageing writer, a Polish boy on the Lido and the cholera nobody mentions.

Harry Haller, half man and half wolf, and the Magic Theatre; Hesse's midlife crisis.

Experience Cold War history at Berlin Wall crossing point

Experience an electrifying techno concert in Berlin, the heart of electronic music

Experience the Ishtar Gate and Market Gate of Miletus