John Hughes
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 4 Jun
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Well, I think he moves to Berlin in 1920.
So, as you say, fairly quickly.
He's hugely productive in Vienna, but he moves to Berlin, I think, primarily as an economic migrant.
He goes there because he
thinks there'll be better opportunities for him and a better chance that he will establish himself as a writer there.
And Berlin in this period is becoming something of a mecca or a cultural magnet, I think, for people from all around German-speaking Europe and beyond.
It's growing very quickly.
I think by the end of the 20s, there's more than 4 million people living in Berlin, which means it was bigger then than it is today.
It has an incredibly productive population.
and thriving newspaper and publishing industry, even more so than was the case in Vienna.
Dozens of daily newspapers in multiple editions, as Deborah said, as well as weekly magazines.
So there are plenty of opportunities for Verrott in a place like Berlin.
Of course, there's also the art scene there, theatre, music.
Cabaret, the emerging film industry in Weimar Germany as well.
So there's a lot happening in Berlin.
But it's also a place of extremes as well, political, cultural, social.
And he's very sensitive to those extremes as well.
Yeah, I mean, it was the Frankfurter Zeitung, where he eventually becomes one of the key names publishing regularly in the Feuilleton section.
It was one of the prestige titles in the Weimar Republic, headquartered in Frankfurt and Main.
But he was the sort of Berlin cultural correspondent for a time.
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