A modern love letter to humanity. Between 1895 and 1900, Alfred Kerr, the aspiring prominent critic, writes his "Berlin Letters" for the Breslau newspaper. He reports on the Kaiser and the court, but also on the new type of citizens, the entrepreneurs who bring much of the future to the city, and those who struggle with life: the downtrodden, the bankrupt, the impostors, and the nameless. For he knows: A city is made up of the people who shape its vibrant world and are equally shaped by it. Few have been able to depict human coexistence as sensitively as Alfred Kerr. His panorama of humanity has lost none of its relevance to this day - it opens the reader's eyes to the course of events, to what is essential, and to what endures. "One never begins a Berlin letter in a better mood than when.".