Stereotype und Fascination
The Two Lives of Warsaw
Artur Celiński, Aleksandra Niżyńska
Deutsche Fassung
Abstract
Warsaw leads a double life. One Warsaw is gray, boring, inhospitable, a place for business and prefabricated buildings. The other Warsaw is an open city: colourful, dynamic, and urban. This Warsaw impresses by way of the magic of the unexpected, by way of culture and life in public spaces. This city is changing yet keeps up its heritage, without becoming awestruck by it.
(Osteuropa 5-6/2011, pp. 311–324)