A View from the Past of the Flight across the Mediterranean Sea: Walking the "Chemin Walter Benjamin"

Phil Kuehlthau View of the Mediterranean Sea (photo: Phil Kuehlthau) Walking the Chemin Walter Benjamin means commemorating both the escape of Walter Benjamin from National Socialist Germany and further movements of flight and migration in the 20th century. Besides, connecting the chemin to our present day can hardly be avoided. The view of the Mediterranean Sea, which slips constantly into the visual field while one hikes to Portbou, provides access to Benjamin’s notion of the relationsh..