Christina Tilmann, editor of MOZ, presented the book SPREE by Uwe Rada at the end of March. She writes:
“Uwe Rada dedicates [the Spree] a declaration of love in book form.”
She also writes, among other things: “So now the Spree. A “largely blank page”, as Rada puts it. “Books about it are either Berlin history or regional literature,” reads the foreword. Which is why the book, published in KJM Buchverlag’s fine series of European Essays on Nature and Landscape, is many things at once: a political history of Berlin’s government district, which is bisected by the Spree, and a dramatic appeal in the face of falling groundwater levels and sulphate and iron ochre pollution in Lusatia.”In Berlin a concrete channel, in Lusatia a drainage pipe, in the Spreewald a threatened idyll,” Rada characterises the different faces of the river, and probably rightly assumes that visitors to a beach bar in Berlin-Mitte probably don’t give a second thought to Lusatia and its problems with structural change.”
The whole article can be read HERE (fee required).