Always the focal point in modern times for momentous political; social and cultural upheaval; Berlin has continued; since the fall of the Wall in 1989; to be a city in transition. As the new capital of a reunified Germany it has embarked on a journey of rapid reconfiguration; involving issues of memory; nationhood and ownership. Bertolt Brecht; meanwhile; stands as one of the principal thinkers about art and politics in the 20th century. The Street Scene model; which was the foundation for his theory of an epic theatre; relied precisely on establishing a connection between arts functioning and everyday life. His preoccupation with the ceaselessness of change; an impulse implying rupture and movement as the key characteristics informing the development of a democratic cultural identity; correlates resonantly with the notion of an ever-evolving city. Premised on an understanding of performance as the articulation of movement in space; Street Scenes interrogates what kind of life is permitted to flow in the new Berlin. Central to this method is the flaneur figure; a walker of streets who provides detached observations on the revealing detritus of modern urban existence. Walter Benjamin; himself a native of Berlin as well as friend and seminal critic of Brecht; exercised the practice in exemplary form in his portrait of the city One-Way Street.
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