P3D New Berlin-Book with views from the "Kaiser-Panorama"

[Ulrich.Hauschild@xxxxxx]

Erhard Senf (owner and curator of the colorized historic stereoscopic images

of the Kaiser-Panorama Berlin) and Michael Bienert (author of some
literarical, 
topographical Berlin books) have just published a coffee table book called 
"Berlin wird Metropole" with 120 big size Berlin images from the
Kaiser-Panorama archive. 
Mr. Senf describes in the first part of the book the history of the
Kaiser-Panorama 
and gives some biographical informations about the stereo-photographer,
inventor 
and first owner of the Kaiser-Panorama: August Fuhrmann.
In the second part Bienert explains the success and the growth of Fuhrmann's
company 
pre WWI on the one hand with the high quality and careful selection of
stereocopic 
views for the serials of the Kaiser-Panorama  on the other hand with the
thesis, 
that the views idealized, what they pictured - and after WWI there was
nothing to idealize. 
The images/stereocopic views shows the growing Prussian Berlin and members
of the 
Hohenzollern Monarchy in a faultless way: brightness and greatness, not
misery 
and normal life of "Otto Normalverbraucher" ("Mr. Smith").
The third and main part of the book shows the 120 big size images under the
headlines: 
"The Berlins", "Prussian inheritance", "The "Kaiser"-City", "The start in
the 20. Century",
 "In the midst of the war" and "The new Berlin".
All views are dated and undertitled with a short description. The views are
carefully and
 excellent reproduced (with 2 or 3 exceptions).
For friends of stereophotography the main lack of this well-made book is the
renunciation 
of big format stereoviews. All the big size images shows only the one half
of a Kaiser-
Panorama-stereoview! 
This book comes with a special-designed stereoviewer for the nearly 20 small
format 
stereoviews (not only Kaiser-Panorama-Views), which are integrated in the
first two 
text-orientated parts of the book.
"Berlin wird Metropole" is written in German and costs 78,- DM (nearly $40).

For more information: http://www.bebraverlag.de, click on "Neue Bücher"
   
Ulrich Hauschild
Ul.Hauschild@xxxxxxxxx