2020
DOI: 10.1111/glal.12260
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‘Ein Ort, Wo Sich Alles in Einen Haufen Zusammendrängt’: Berlin's Zeltenplatz as Contested Urban Space

Abstract: The Zeltenplatz, a feature of Berlin's Tiergarten, played a unique role in the city's social life for nearly two centuries. This essay traces the changing clientele of this gathering place during three distinct phases of its history: its initial eighteenth-century heyday, when it was famed for drawing large and extraordinarily heterogeneous crowds; the period following the Napoleonic Wars, culminating in the 1848 revolution, crucial events of which took place at the Zeltenplatz; and the 1880s, as modern Berlin… Show more

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