Tobias Becker is a lecturer at the Freie Universitat Berlin. His research focuses upon the history of popular culture and urban history in Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and his publications include Inszenierte Moderne. Populares Theater in Berlin und London, 1880 1930 (2014) and Die Stadt der tausend Freuden. Vergnugungskultur um 1900 (edited with Anna Littmann and Johanna Niedbalski, 2011).