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Last edited by Zora Elbe
January 19, 2025 | History

An other Look at Frankfurt am Main
Places and topics of this anthropological city guide:
the central train station district • the municipal Office for Multicultural Affairs • the Frankfurt Ballet • cyber cafes • the border between a fashionable quarter and a multicultural housing area • Leo Frobenius, the “Frankfurter” • the Institute of Historical Ethnology • the IG Farben building on its way to the Westend campus of the university • Jewish Frankfurt and its historical traces • spaces of youth culture • the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology • the river Main • the riverside museum ensemble • the Ethnographic Museum • living in Ernst May’s Römerstadt today • sculptures in public spaces • the Frankfurt School and the Institut für Sozialforschung • the ‘Wasserhäuschen’ culture of refreshment kiosks in Frankfurt • the Westend • the central pedestrian zone of Zeil • the Frankfurt Zoo • over the rooftops of the city • the Rhine Main region looks at its metropolis

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Language
English
Pages
412

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Cover of: Frankfurt am Main
Frankfurt am Main: Ein kulturanthropologischer Stadtführer
1998, Institut für Kulturanthropologie und Europäische Ethnologie
Paperback in German - 1. Auflage
Cover of: Frankfurt am Main
Frankfurt am Main: An anthropological city guide
1998, Institut für Kulturanthropologie und Europäische Ethnologie
Paperback in English - 1. Auflage

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Table of Contents

Preface. Close to home: the urban field
Page 9
Jörn Rebholz, Stefan Rech: A quest for traces on hallowed ground
Page 11
Gisela Welz: Managing Cultural Diversity in a Global City. The Frankfurt City Department of Multicultural Affairs
Page 31
Joachim Fuchs: The Zeil. From Cattle Market to Event Zone
Page 45
Heike Lauer: The new Architecture as an Educator? Living in a Project of Classical Modernism in Frankfurt am Main
Page 57
Susanne Bisgaard, Elke Wehrs: : A Building Emerges from History. The Poelzig Ensemble between Monument of Power and Future Democratic Place of Learning
Page 75
Franziska Puhan-Schulz: "Culture" as image factor
Page 91
Heinz Schilling: At the Border. A Neighbourhood Conflict in Frankfurt
Page 107
Wolf von Wolzogen: The Börneplatz Memorial: A "historical wound" in the memory of the City
Page 125
Projektgruppe Westend: Public sphere and neighborhood in Westend - a collage
Page 149
Helena Wulff: At Horne Abroad . Ballett Frankfurt and the World
Page 177
Astrid Wegner: Hammering Men, Twisted Angel. A brief topography of sculptures in Frankfurt
Page 189
Susanne Bisgaard: Neighbourhood Zoo: Wild Creatures in the City
Page 209
Lilian Bliesener-Wesselsky, Manu Kembter: Frankfurt on the Main or the Main in Frankfurt
Page 225
Ursula Neeb: "Booth Worlds". An Expedition through the History and Presence of Frankfurt's Refreshments Kiosks
Page 237
Kirsten Salein: On the Top of the Roofs of Frankfurt. Observations in Windows 25 and Cafe M. Schneider
Page 249
Johannes Moser: Youth Places in Frankfurt am Main
Page 263
Ute Süßbrich: Cyber-Cafes in Frankfurt
Page 281
Heinz Schilling: A region looks on its metropolis. Frankfurt as the object of suffering und passion
Page 293
Ludwig von Friedeburg: The Institute of Social Research
Page 309
Christian F. Feest: House Society Liebigstraße 41
Page 325
Hans-Jürgen Heinrichs: Leo Frobenius: The "Frankfurter"
Page 337
Josef F. Thiel: Cultures, Creativity and Art at the Ethnographie Museum of Frankfurt am Main
Page 345
Ina-Maria Greverus: Frankfurt am Main: The "Places" in the City are the City.
Page 351
Authors
Page 399
Research on Frankfurt at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology
Page 407

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references.

Published in
Frankfurt am Main, Deutschland
Series
Notizen, Nr. 63
Genre
Guidebooks.
Copyright Date
1998

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
914.3/416404879
Library of Congress
DD901.F74 F682 1998

Contributors

Editor
Ina-Maria Greverus

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Pagination
405 S. : Ill.
Number of pages
412
Dimensions
21 x 15 x centimeters

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL73461M
ISBN 10
3923992645
LCCN
99174660
Deutsche National Bibliothek
954164261
Goodreads
4553574

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL18301586W

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