"Silicon Valley of its day": Sir Peter Hall, Cities in Civilization (New York, 1998), 377.
"consciousness regarding itself: Wolf Jobst Siedler, "Die traditionelle Traditionslosigkeit. Notizen zur Baugeschichte Berlin’s" in Manfred Schlenke, ed., Preussen, Versuch einer Bilanz: Ausstellung Katalog (Reinbek bei Hamburg, 1981), 311.
"venerable beside it": Mark Twain, "The German Chicago," in Neider, ed., Complete Essays, 88.
"rapidity of its growth": Charles Huard, Berlin comme je l’ai vu (Paris, 1907), 33.
"city of Parvenus": Walther Rathenau, "Die schönste Stadt der Welt," in Jürgen Schutte and Peter Sprengel, eds. Die Berliner Moderne 1885–1914 (Stuttgart, 1987), 100–101.
"youngest European great city": Arthur Eloesser, Die Strassen meiner Jugend (Berlin, 1987), 31.
eastern Europeans: Gerhard Brunn, "Metropolis Berlin," in G. Brunn and Jürgen Reulecke, Metropolis Berlin. Berlin als deutsche Hauptstadt im Vergleich europäischer Hauptstädte 1871–1939 (Bonn, 1992), 21.
"German non-culture": Karl Scheffler, Berlin—Ein Stadtschicksal (Berlin, 1910), 121.
"surrogates and imitations"; "a shoreless future": Eloesser, Strasse, 77–80.
"lack of historical interest": Karl Baedeker, Berlin and Its Environs: Handbook for Travellers (Leipzig, 1903), 51.
collapse of moral integrity: Roper, German Encounters, 127–145. On attitudes toward Berlin in German literature at the turn of the century, see also Viktor Zmegac, "Für und gegen Berlin in der literarischen Kultur der Jahrhundertwende," in Klaus Siebenhaar, ed., Das poetische Berlin. Metropolenkultur zwischen Gründerzeit und Nationalsozialismus (Wiesbaden, 1992), 69–84.
"reign among us": Quoted in Roper, German Encounters, 200.
"and steam boilers"; "of his youth": Max Kretzer, Meister Timpe (Stuttgart, 1976), 28, 64.
capital’s nightlife: John H. Zammito, "Der Streit um die Berliner Kultur 1871 bis 1930," in Jahrbuch für die Geschichte Mittel- und Ostdeutschland. Band 35 (Berlin, 1986), 238.
"spiritual emptiness": Quoted in Andrew Lees, "Critics of Urban Society in Germany, 1854–1914," Journal of the History of Ideas 40:1 (Jan.-March 1979), 71.
"ought to be now": Quoted in Pakula, Uncommon Woman, 476.
"chivalry in Berlin": Quoted in ibid., 471.
"young men in it": Quoted in John C. G. Röhl and Nicolaus Sombart, eds., Kaiser Wilhelm II. New Interpretations (Cambridge and New York, 1982), 47.
"offer you a fountain": Michael Erbe, "Berlin im Kaiserreich," in Wolfgang Ribbe, ed., Geschichte Berlin’s. Zweiter Band. Von der Märzrevolution bis zur Gegenwart (Munich, 1987), 761.
"blood of my subjects": Quoted in Otto Pflanze, Bismarck and the Development of Germany, Volume III. The Period of Fortification (Princeton, 1990), 358.
"with incomparable success": Ibid., 373.
"constantly being added": Vierhaus, ed., Spitzemberg Tagebuch, 275–276.
"fast-changing economy and society": Pflanze, Bismarck, III, 419–420.
relax, not to mourn: Alfred Kerr, Wo liegt Berlin? Briefe aus der Reichshauptstadt 1895–1900 (Berlin, 1997), 408.
"side of my ancestors": Quoted in Pflanze, Bismarck, III, 428.
"beautiful city in the world": Scheffler, Berlin, 138.
"put on their clothes": Quoted in Lamar Cecil, Wilhelm II, Volume II. Emperor and Exile (1900–1941) (Chapel Hill, 1996), 23.
"have something": Kerr, Wo liegt Berlin?, 5.
"impression of emptiness": Avenarius, "Der Dom," quoted in Ruth Glatzer, ed., Berliner Leben 1870–1900. Erinnerungen und Berichte (Berlin, 1963), 52.
Protestantism would replace Catholicism: Thomas Parents, "Rom, Berlin und Köln," in Hans Wilderotter, ed., Hauptstadt. Zentren, Residenzen, Metropolen in der deutschen Geschichte (Cologne, 1989), 389.
"leadership of Europe": Michael S. Cullen, "Der Reichstag und Schloss Bellvue," in ibid., 340.
"wanted to be": Michael S. Cullen, Der Reichstag. Die Geschichte eines Monuments (Stuttgart, 1990), 38.
"narrow back street": Theophil Zolling, Bismarcks Nachfolger (Berlin, 1885), 517–518. Quoted in Roper, German Encounters, 225.
"ape house of the Reich"; "Pickpockets": Cullen, Reichstag, 32, 314–317.
"could be made to be ugly": Quoted in Cecil, Wilhelm II, II, 42–43.
"made of marble": Quoted in Anthony Read and David Fisher, Berlin Rising (New York, 1994), 126.
"crawling back on all fours": Quoted in Röhl and Sombart, Kaiser Wilhelm II, 31.
"a loyal subject": Heinrich Mann, Der Untertan (Berlin, 1947), 93, 55.
second shot: Alson J. Smith, A View of the Spree (New York, 1962), x–xü.
"instead of to debase": Ernst Johann, ed., Reden des Kaisers (Munich, 1966), 211.
"revolution of humanity": Quoted in Masur, Imperial Berlin, 244. On imperial Berlin’s theater scene, especially the contribution of Jews to it, see Peter Jelavich, "Performing High and Low: Jews in Modern Theater, Cabaret, Revue, and Film," in Bilski, ed., Berlin Metropolis, 208–235.
"champagne and caviar": Quoted in Peter Jelavich, Berlin Cabaret (Cambridge, Mass., 1993), 63.
"strives to realize": Quoted in Cecil, Wilhelm II, II, 47.
"practical and upright": Quoted in Jelavich, Berlin Cabaret, 63. On Reinhardt, see also Jelavich, "Performing High and Low," 213–223.
"just been written": Quoted in Dieter Glatzer and Ruth Glatzer, eds., Berliner Leben 1900–1914. Eine Historische Reportage aus Erinnerungen und Berichte (Berlin, 1986), 2 vols., I, 485–486.
the Berlin Philharmonic: Walther Kiaulehn, Berlin. Schicksal einer Weltstadt (Munich, 1980), 268–269. See also Ronald Taylor, Berlin and Its Culture (New Haven, 1997), 205–207; and Michael Farr, Berlin! Berlin! Its Culture, Its Times (London, 1992), 127–128.
"with all haste": Quoted in Kiaulehn, 272.
"Wagner is too noisy"; "commonplace conductor": Quoted in Cecil, Wilhelm II, II, 46.
"to bite me": Ibid., 45.
"a vulgar fellow": Quoted in Masur, Imperial Berlin, 239.
part of the court set himself: On Menzel, see Kiaulehn, Berlin, 289–295; Taylor, Berlin and Its Culture, 174–176.
"on your conscience, old Menzel": Brandes, Berlin als Reichshauptstadt, 136.
wholesome and uplifting art: On Werner, see Peter Paret, The Berlin Secession. Modernism and Its Enemies in Imperial Germany (Cambridge, Mass., 1980), 15–20; Anton von Werner, Erlebnisse und Eindrücke 1870–1890 (Berlin, 1913).
"throw them out!"; "out to anyone": Quoted in Paret, Berlin Secession, 50, 43. On Liebermann, see also Peter Paret, "Modernism and the ‘Alien Element’," in Bilski, ed., Berlin Metropolis, 35–38; Emily D. Bilski, "Images of Identity and Urban Life: Jewish Artists in Turn-of-the-Century Berlin," in ibid., 103–106; and Chana C. Schütz, "Max Liebermann as a ‘Jewish’ Painter: The Artist’s Reception in His Time," in ibid., 146–163.
"hideous than it already is": Quoted in Cecil, Wilhelm II, II, 39.