Foreign Rights Catalogue E.A. Seemann Henschel Spring 2024
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Uwe Westphal<br />
Fashion Metropolis<br />
Berlin<br />
The Story of the Rise and<br />
Destruction of the Jewish<br />
Fashion Industry<br />
THE AUTHOR<br />
Uwe Westphal lives in Berlin and London. He<br />
has already published several books, including<br />
one on advertising during the Nazi era,<br />
the history of the Bauhaus movement and<br />
most recently the novel "Ehrenfried & Cohn."<br />
The well-established author studied art history<br />
in Berlin and worked at the International<br />
PEN Center in London, later in New York as a<br />
journalist and producer for PBS and CBS.<br />
Something unique emerged in the heart of<br />
Berlin in the 19th century: a creative centre<br />
for fashion and ready-made clothing. The<br />
hundreds of clothing companies that were<br />
established here manufactured modern<br />
clothing and developed new designs that<br />
were sold throughout Germany and the world.<br />
This industry reached the height of its success<br />
in the Golden Twenties. Freed from their<br />
corsets, sophisticated women of the time<br />
dressed in the 'Berlin chic' sold by Valentin<br />
Manheimer, Herrmann Gerson, or the<br />
Wertheim department stores. After 1933,<br />
however, most Jewish clothing industrialists<br />
were confronted with hatred and violence.<br />
Many of their companies were 'aryanized'<br />
while they themselves were robbed, displaced,<br />
and murdered. Under new Nazi management,<br />
these companies created conservative<br />
clothing that represented an entirely<br />
different image of women.<br />
With its gripping depiction of events and<br />
trove of historical images, this book brings to<br />
life Berlin's fashionable past while also serving<br />
as a clear and painful reminder of the<br />
great injustice that was committed.<br />
• illustrations throughout, including unpublished<br />
photos that revive the past<br />
epochs<br />
• society and fashion in Berlin – focusing<br />
on the Golden Twenties and the Nazi<br />
era<br />
• based on decades of research and interviews<br />
by the author with contemporary<br />
witnesses in Germany, Great Britain,<br />
the USA and Israel<br />
TRIMMED PAGE SIZE<br />
170 mm x 230 mm (appr. 6.7 x 9 inches)<br />
PAGES<br />
272<br />
TEXT (of the English edition)<br />
75,000 words<br />
480,000 characters incl. spaces<br />
ILLUSTRATIONS<br />
103 b/w and color illustrations<br />
BINDING<br />
Hardcover<br />
PUBLICATION DATE<br />
2019, English copy available<br />
RIGHTS<br />
worldwide<br />
Please contact Thekla Noschka<br />
thekla.noschka@seemann-henschel.de<br />
© E. A. <strong>Seemann</strong> <strong>Henschel</strong>, Leipzig 2023 ----- www.seemann-henschel.de
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