We cordially invite you to a booksigning with Torsten A. Hoffmann, who has published a new book about the contrasts of the city of Frankfurt.
Frankfurt - city of contrasts. There are many, and a lot of them have become clichés. The city, which is often reffered to as Mainmetropole, stand for being cosmopolitan and provincial, for the glory of money and the misery of drugs, mobility and property, apple cider coziness and crime, skyscrapers and Goethe's birthplace - in one word: extremes.
These extremes have defined the image of Frankfurt as long as anyone can remember, but at least since the once sedate city of merchants was destroyed in World War II and committed itself to a profitable functionalism afterwards.
But Frankfurt has changed, it has become presentable and complex. Just take a look at the newly built/rebuilt historic center between the imperial cathedral and the Römer: the syncrisis of reconstructions and new buildings stands for a mixture of old and new towards a point of indistinguishability. History and present age are nullified in a daredevil balancing act in order to equilibrate the image.
The book "Frankfurt - City of Contrasts" is written in German, English and Spanish.
