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Martin Mosebach

Martin Mosebach - Westend

In the company of the businessman Eduard Has, the reader experiences post-war Frankfurt. Its Westend district becomes a microcosm of West Germany, suffering constant change: from the rubble-strewn cityscape at the end of the war, to the prosperity of the economic miracle, and finally the gradual decay of the city and its society.

Westend (Canoeing on the River Main)

Today though, he barely glanced at the swans as he lowered the canoe into the water, splashing in after it with bare feet, and managed the balancing act of climbing into his little fish-extension. More ...

Westend (view from the dormer window)

“The layout of the flat isn’t absolutely finished,” he said sweetly. “If you find you don’t have enough space, then we can take in a bit of the fifth floor, or you can add a wee belveder-ie.” More ...

Westend (Postwar Ruinscape)

Before Alfred’s birth the bombs had fallen and demolished the old city centre, and had also left their traces in the Westend district. It wasn’t just the Olenschlager house that had been burned to the ground.More ...

Westend (History of Westend, Part 1)

Westend was not an old part of the city, but even so there had been a complete turnover in its population, not once but twice. When the largely Jewish population was driven out in the years leading up to World War Two, that was actually the second round of changes for the big houses...More ...

Westend (History of Westend, Part 2)

The streets, whose quiet bespoke not so much the discretion of bourgeois lifestyle as a more general absence of humans, began to experience a resurgence of life in the later evening hours. The Labonte aunts remained unaware of this, until the renewal of activity spread into the daylight hours. More ...