Focuses on events in Berlin while, but location of the House is the Kaiserdamm in Charlottenburg Palace, where the Emperor went underground and the Corner a lot happened as the establishment of the radio tower, the exhibition halls, of the House of radio and the ICC. all of this history is incorporated into the with. The Rollmops”that offered a lot of hilarious dialogues is that a generally has a fish market, and because it says fish women, not on the mouth dropped, will be are written partly in Berlin dialect. From my childhood I know even the notorious Portierschen”, tells the author. Berlin bedrock, to compare with the French Concierge, loved and feared because of their Kodder snout”and their often hard-led Regiment. Where no one came, and there was the latest gossip free.” A whole century in a novel, does it work? Very good, if it is limited to the essential political, economic and cultural events. There even remains room for the different fashion and styles of music, the cinema and theatre program and much more.” Not be the reader with so much concentrated dialect overwhelmed? “” Not at all, because in between too high German is spoken, and who does not understand a thing or two, I recommend the my book checkered jequatscht and abjelacht “, a dictionary of the Berlin dialect” (Pascu-verlag, ISBN 978-3-943018-18-9, 13.90 euros), Dietrich Novak smiles. There, ALT-Berliner diving terms, of which some people have never heard something.

Or did you know what is an ink ball (cylinder)? Well, see se. I thought it was time that even a real Berliner writes such a dictionary, who knows the terms from their own vision or hearing. In this respect much nonsense is done that.” “” “In the German capital, where everything little bit sounds, as it is meant to the inventiveness of the Berliner Schnauze” delicious amuse, and one must be baptized with spree water “or at least the Berlin air”breathing, this is not bad to take, but to laugh half dead in the event of an emergency”, so the blurb of the dictionary. The extensive keyword list is supplemented by humorous dialogues and clever comic drawings by Rudolf Schuppler. A linguistic voyage through (ALT) Berlin. Now you must think but I had already shot my bullets. Berlin will probably never let me go with its people, its history and its distinctive dialect.

There is still much to report and to tell”, says Dietrich Novak. We must be curious. Contact: Pen & ink the literary magazine of the hobby factory Bernd Nurnberger Tauentzienstr. 13A, 10789 Berlin Tel 030-217 999 20