"Radio Benjamin II" completes our translation project: Walter Benjamin's essays on historical events. Few people are familiar with the dozens of radio programs that Walter Benjamin composed and broadcast from 1927 to 1933 on radio stations in Berlin and Frankfurt. These are fascinating pieces of prose, interwoven with irony, subtlety, and humor, illuminating minor characters and marginal events in history. "Radio Benjamin II" contains six pieces that were broadcast on his program "The Hour for Youth." The language is fluent, adapted to radio; the characters are esoteric, but unforgettable. Benjamin, a gifted storyteller, presents in these pieces his unique way of thinking. So prepare yourself for stories about fires, train accidents, and floods, for stories about dogs, and above all – for stories about people. "Men never rebuild a destroyed city exactly as it was before; they always want to make some profit from the disaster, and therefore seek to rebuild the old one safer, better, and more beautiful than before." Let's relax with a glass of wine and let Walter Benjamin tell us his version of the forgotten stories of human culture. "Under his gaze and words, everything becomes radioactive." Theodor Adorno "Benjamin sacrificed himself for revolutionary goals (...) His work and life are a challenge to us all." Terry Eagleton