A traveler observes: pairs of eyes in New York, pairs of eyes on a ship, eyes at the airport. He sees children in Berlin, children in Paris, his memory of himself as a child. Travelers are forced to spend hours together - and are amazed and delighted by the commonality and familiarity that arises. Cities breathe, cities shine, cities remain silent. When Paris Berlin New York. Transformations was first published in 1992, critics responded with enthusiasm. Here, an author presented a unique attempt at a philosophical travel and flâneur prose - a prose about the transformation of everyday life. Wolfgang Hermann, who seemed to have already established himself as a master of miniatures after his debut The Beautiful Life, astonished with a completely new perspective on the world. It is a text untouched by any current of time, which continues to resonate to this day.