Det spadserende i 2010ernes Berlin-litteratur

Two contemporary German books – Hanns Zischler‘s Berlin ist zu groß für Berlin (2013) and Tanja Dückers‘ Mein altes West-Berlin (2016) – express the criticism that inhabitants of big cities have stopped walking. The main subject in these texts is the walk in Berlin without having a specific purpose. The big city Berlin is considered a space of formation that should be ‘read’ to disclose history. The article examines if Zischler’s and Dückers’ walk is merely a part of a nostalgic culture of remembrance or still is a current way to move around in contemporary Berlin physically and intellectually.

两本当代德语书籍——汉斯·齐施勒（Hanns Zischler）的《Berlin ist zu groß für Berlin》（2013）与坦雅·杜克尔斯（Tanja Dückers）的《Mein altes West-Berlin》（2016）——表达了对大城市居民不再步行这一现象的批判。这些文本的核心主题是在柏林进行无特定目的的行走。柏林这座大都市被视为一种生成性空间（space of formation），需要通过“阅读”来揭示其历史。这篇文章探讨了齐施勒与杜克尔斯笔下的行走，究竟仅仅是怀旧式记忆文化的一部分，还是依然是当代柏林居民在身体与思想层面进行移动的一种现行方式。