A Tramp in Berlin: New Mark Twain Stories & an Account of His Adventures in the German Capital During the Belle Epoque of 1891-1892 (Colo

Author: Mark Twain, Andreas Austilat
Publisher: Berlinica
Published: 06/15/2013
Pages: 176
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.12lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.63d
ISBN: 9781935902928

About the Author
Lapham, Lewis: - Lewis H. Lapham, born 1935, is an American writer. He was the editor of the American monthly Harper's Magazine from 1976 until 1981, and from 1983 until 2006. He is also the founder of Lapham's Quarterly, and has written more than a dozen books on politics and current affairs. His writing has appeared in The American Conservative, Life, Commentary, Vanity Fair, National Review, Yale Literary Magazine, ELLE, Fortune, Forbes, American Spectator, The New York Times, The Walrus, Maclean's, The Observer (London), and the Wall Street Journal. Lapham also served as a judge for the PEN/Newman's Own First Amendment Award. In addition, Lapham is the host and author of the PBS series, America's Century as well as the host of The World in Time: radio discussions with scholars and historians on Bloomberg Radio. He is also on the Board of Trustees of the Advisory Council of the Mark Twain House in Hartford, Connecticut.Twain, Mark: - Mark Twain was America's foremost novelist, journalist, and satirist who has been hailed as the father of American literature. And he was also an accomplished travel writer. Born in Missouri in 1835 as Samuel Langhorne Clemens, he spent his early years as a Mississippi River pilot and as a prospector in Nevada before he settled in California. He wrote his first travel book, The Innocents Abroad, after an 1867 trip to Palestine. After his second trip to Europe, which took him (and his family) to Germany for the first time, he wrote A Tramp Abroad. His third trip abroad brought the family to Berlin, from October 1891 to March 1892, first in a tenement in the district of Tiergarten, later in a posh hotel Unter den Linden. Twain was invited to Berlin salons and socialized with Prussian royalty, including the Kaiser. However, he suffered from rheumatism, so he never wrote a book about Berlin, even though he pondered many ideas. He did write a number of shorter pieces, as well as the first chapter of a novel, most of it unpublished up to today. He also met one of his future friends in Berlin, Rudolf Lindau, a well-traveled novelist and Bismarck's press secretary. Eventually, the family would move to Vienna and Italy. Twain embarked on a world tour to pay off his debts. He returned to upstate New York in 1900, where he died ten years later.Austilat, Andreas: - Andreas Austilat is the deputy editor of the Sunday supplement of Der Tagesspiegel, Berlin's leading daily, where he has worked since 1987. He interviewed many celebrities-such as Rosanne Cash (daughter of Johnny Cash), architect David Chipperfield, fashion designer Tommy Hilfinger, as well as authors Ian Kershaw and Kathy Reichs-, and also the last survivors of the gigantic airship Hindenburg, which crashed in 1937 in Lakehurst, New Jersey, after its transatlantic journey. He also discovered the lost copies of the oldest existing Titanic movie filmed in 1912, the year of the Titanic disaster; it was hidden in a Berlin archive. He published three travel and culture guides about Brandenburg and a history book about Zehlendorf, an affluent Berlin suburb. Austilat was born in Berlin, where he lives with his wife, his two children-a boy and a girl-and their dog Duffy. He studied history at the Free University and at first wanted to become a teacher, but decided switch to journalism early on.

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