Project Gutenberg 2025-04-05 Public domain in the USA. 174 Becher, Johannes Robert 1891 1958 Becher, Johannes R. (Johannes Robert) Grosz, George 1893 1959 Grosh, Georg Gross, Georg Heartfield, John 1891 1968 Herzfeld, Helmut Der Bankier reitet über das Schlachtfeld : $b Erzählung $aWien :$bAgis-Verlag, $c1926. Jens Sadowski and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net. This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library. "Der Bankier reitet über das Schlachtfeld: Erzählung" by Johannes Robert Becher is a narrative written in the early 20th century. The story centers on Mr. Branting, an American banker and millionaire, portraying his experiences and observations as he journeys through postwar Europe, particularly visiting former World War I battlefields now turned into sites of commercial tourism. The likely topic of the book is a sharp, satirical examination of wealth, war, and the commercialization of tragedy, explored through encounters with a diverse array of characters and the transformation of war’s devastation into spectacle for the privileged. At the start of the narrative, we follow Mr. Branting, who, after a luxurious vacation in St. Moritz, embarks on the opulent ocean liner "Columbia" from New York to Europe. The beginning paints the ship as a "floating fairy-tale castle," brimming with luxury for its wealthy passengers, starkly contrasting with the hardships faced by its international crew deep in the engine rooms. The story shifts from scenes of decadent onboard entertainment and socializing—including a grotesque masquerade party—to a special film screening about executions following an assassination attempt in Bulgaria, highlighting the voyeuristic consumption of violence. Upon arriving in Europe, Branting joins a tourist excursion to World War I battlefields, now commercialized as attractions, where he and other visitors are guided through reconstructed trenches and gruesome relics, their reactions oscillating between fascination and self-congratulatory pathos. The opening sets a tone of dark irony, exploring themes of alienation, the commodification of suffering, and the unsettling ways in which contemporary society processes the aftermath of catastrophe. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.b2809298 20220214234611becher 1926 at Reading ease score: 74.2 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. de World War, 1914-1918 -- Fiction PT Text Category: Novels Category: German Literature 217431 2025-06-30T05:07:16.552559 text/html 191976 2025-04-05T01:59:36 text/html 331910 2025-06-30T05:07:21.171096 application/epub+zip 332111 2025-06-30T05:07:17.863068 application/epub+zip 332112 2025-06-30T05:07:17.162569 application/epub+zip 1274785 2025-06-30T05:07:23.672025 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1259780 2025-06-30T05:07:20.580091 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 190650 2025-06-30T05:07:15.908614 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 170629 2025-04-05T01:59:36 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 17806 2025-06-30T05:07:23.813027 application/rdf+xml 33667 2025-06-30T05:07:17.340564 image/jpeg 4370 2025-06-30T05:07:17.249059 image/jpeg 823012 2025-06-30T05:07:16.577622 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog de.wikipedia en.wikipedia en.wikipedia