Since I am presenting the project of a university seminar paper I am currently working on, it might be that not everything is already cristal clear to me since I am „in the process“ of writing and could be that I will change some details and aspects of this project. But, on the other side, I hope that presenting my topic and discussing it with the other participants will help me in this process of writing the paper on this topic. As I mentioned in the first abstract, my topic will be „tourism in Weimar Republic“, especially I want to deal with Berlin, that became a very popular tourism destination in these years. I dismissed my idea of comparing travel books with personal/individual ego-documents like travel reports and diaries. After speaking with my professor about the topic and the central problem of my paper we worked out another approach: Now my main focus will be the narrative or „myth“ of the „wild Berlin of the Twenties“. My first rough hypothesis is that this image of the „wild Berlin“ was, to a big part, shaped by the tourism industry oft he time and travel literature as an essential part of this industry. The sources remain mostly the same as mentioned in the first abstract: To answer my question I am currently studying three travel books from this era: Alfred Heilborn’s: Die Reise nach Berlin (1925) Eugen Szatmari’s Was nicht im Baedeker steht. Das Buch von Berlin (1927), Curt Moreck’s Ein Führer durch das lasterhafte Berlin (A Guide to depraved Berlin) (1931). As one can see in the title of the second book by Szatmari, it’s main goal is to seperate itself from the main (and, quite important, mainSTREAM!) travel book of this time, the famous Badaeker. So, the main points of my presentation will be introducing the audience tot he historical context: What were the changes that Berlin and Germany faced after World War I? How and why Berlin became such an important tourist attraction? Afterwards I gonna talk about the travel literature of that time in general, especially about the role of the Bedaeker travel books. Afterwards I want to speak about these three „alternative“ travel books on Berlin and try to answer the main hypothesis with these examples of travel literature oft he 1920s/ beginning of the 1930s.