Berlin, Germany

Then came an assembly of Germanists in Berlin, a twentieth-century German literature congress in Stuttgart...

Halder talked about his life, his dead mother, his uncle the baron, his only cousin (that unattainable and headstrong girl), about the temptations of Berlin, a city he loved but that also caused him untold suffering, at times unbearably fierce, about the state of his nerves, always near the breaking point.

But he didn’t like alcohol, or he didn’t like it any more than food, and when his team was stationed near Berlin he gave his notice and headed off.

Then they got married and settled in Berlin, or so I heard.

the girl’s sisters and the city of Berlin and world peace and the children of the world

Then they went on to discuss the new authors who were being published by Bubis and Bubis’s colleagues in Munich and Cologne and Frankfurt and Berlin, as well as the publishing houses firmly established in Zurich or Bern and those resurfacing in Vienna.

According to her, they envied her for being from Berlin.

...and then for no reason she remembered that in the Berlin of her adolescence some people, especially servant girls from the country, called the pederasts succubi...