After his release from the Tegel Prison in Berlin, where he was serving a sentence for the murder of his girlfriend Ida, Franz Biberkopf, the protagonist in the novel Berlin Alexanderplatz, starts to panic. The new Berlin grabs him by the throat. The city is adrift; it’s decadent, frivolous and lawless. Berlin was the cultural center of Europe and many artists from around the world flocked there. In the meantime, the rumblings of one of the greatest disasters that a European country has ever brought upon itself were resonating from below. The city was dancing on the volcano. Hitler and his followers were warming up for their rise to power four years later. Nowadays, the city has rediscovered its position as a European cultural center.
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