现当代文化版图呈现出一种以大都会为中心的衍射型生态结构。每个大都会城市都因其特殊的历史和政治地位,牵动着某一区域的文化发展史。德国首都柏林无疑是其中之一,也是其中特色鲜明的一份子。从15世纪成为勃兰登堡选帝侯首府开始,柏林的城市历史就与德国的民族民运一起,演绎着一首不断发展和扩大的赋格曲。15世纪直到二战前的历史中,柏林先后成为勃兰登堡、普鲁士王国、德意志帝国、魏玛共和国的 Modern and contemporary culture map presents a kind of diffractive ecological structure centered on the metropolis. Each metropolitan city because of its special historical and political status, affecting a region’s history of cultural development. Berlin is undoubtedly one of the capital of Germany, but also one of the distinctive features. Starting from the 15th century as the capital of the Brandenburg election, Berlin’s urban history, together with the German national democracy movement, evolved a constantly evolving and expanding fugue. From the 15th century to the pre-World War II history, Berlin became one of Brandenburg, the Prussian Kingdom, the German Empire, the Weimar Republic