Volume 35, Number 8 · May 12, 1988
Rahel's 'Jewish Sofa'
By Gordon A. Craig
Jewish High Society in Old Regime Berlin
by Deborah Hertz
Yale University Press, 299 pp., $30.00
Jettchen Gebert
by Georg Hermann, edited by Dr. Bernhard Kaufhold
Berlin: Kupfergraben Verlagsgesellschaft, 393 pp., DM 24.80
At the end of the 1820s, the Austrian dramatist Franz Grillparzer made his first visit to Berlin. He stayed at The King of Portugal, where he was visited shortly after his arrival by the novelist La Motte Fouqué, who took him off to the exclusive literary club the Mittwochsgesellschaft, where he met, among others, the former diplomat Karl August Varnhagen von Ense and Adelbert Chamisso, the author of Peter Schlemihl. Later, Varnhagen offered to walk him back to his hotel. 'As we passed by his home,' Grillparzer wrote in his autobiography,
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