A collection of essays and articles by the Austrian writer and journalist, compiled by the famous translator-Germanist M.L. Rudnitsky, includes texts written by Joseph Roth for Berlin newspapers in the 1920s–1930s. During the Weimar Republic, Berlin turned out to be the place where the new urban landscape of post-war Europe was born. On the one hand, the city was actively rebuilt and expanding, on the other, war, street politics and economic stagnation seemed to be rebuilding its inhabitants and unwitting immigrant guests from within. The dynamic picture of this bustling metropolis sketched in Joseph Roth's newspaper columns still reads today like a live report on the life of a city that has again become a place where different cultures come together. The writer creates a gallery of urban types and street scenes, somewhat reminiscent of Bulgakov's Moscow, where observation and a unique Berlin style take the place of fantasy. The publication is accompanied by archival photographs.