Voluptuous Panic
Title | Voluptuous Panic PDF eBook |
Author | Mel Gordon |
Publisher | Feral House |
Pages | 321 |
Release | 2008-08-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 193259597X |
This seductive sourcebook of rare visual delights from pre-Nazi, Cabaret-period “Babylon on the Spree” has the distinction of being praised both by scholars and avatars of contemporary culture, inspiring hip club goers, filmmakers, gay historians, graphic designers, and musicians like the Dresden Dolls and Marilyn Manson. This expanded edition includes “Sex Magic and the Occult,” documenting German pagan cults and their often-bizarre erotic rituals, including instructions for entering into the “Sexual Fourth Dimension.” Mel Gordon is professor of theater at the University of California, Berkeley, and is also the author of Erik Jan Hanussen: Hitler’s Jewish Clairvoyant (Feral House).
The Seven Addictions and Five Professions of Anita Berber
Title | The Seven Addictions and Five Professions of Anita Berber PDF eBook |
Author | Mel Gordon |
Publisher | |
Pages | 228 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
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The Seven Addictions and Five Professions of Anita Berber chronicles a remarkable career, including dozens of photographs and drawings that recreate Anita's "Repertoire of the Damned." Book jacket.
Berlin Cabaret
Title | Berlin Cabaret PDF eBook |
Author | Peter JELAVICH |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 337 |
Release | 2009-06-30 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0674039130 |
Step into Ernst Wolzogen's Motley Theater, Max Reinhardt's Sound and Smoke, Rudolf Nelson's Chat noir, and Friedrich Hollaender's Tingel-Tangel. Enjoy Claire Waldoff's rendering of a lower-class Berliner, Kurt Tucholsky's satirical songs, and Walter Mehring's Dadaist experiments, as Peter Jelavich spotlights Berlin's cabarets from the day the curtain first went up, in 1901, until the Nazi regime brought it down. Fads and fashions, sexual mores and political ideologies--all were subject to satire and parody on the cabaret stage. This book follows the changing treatment of these themes, and the fate of cabaret itself, through the most turbulent decades of modern German history: the prosperous and optimistic Imperial age, the unstable yet culturally inventive Weimar era, and the repressive years of National Socialism. By situating cabaret within Berlin's rich landscape of popular culture and distinguishing it from vaudeville and variety theaters, spectacular revues, prurient nude dancing, and Communist agitprop, Jelavich revises the prevailing image of this form of entertainment. Neither highly politicized, like postwar German Kabarett, nor sleazy in the way that some American and European films suggest, Berlin cabaret occupied a middle ground that let it cast an ironic eye on the goings-on of Berliners and other Germans. However, it was just this satirical attitude toward serious themes, such as politics and racism, that blinded cabaret to the strength of the radical right-wing forces that ultimately destroyed it. Jelavich concludes with the Berlin cabaret artists' final performances--as prisoners in the concentration camps at Westerbork and Theresienstadt. This book gives us a sense of what the world looked like within the cabarets of Berlin and at the same time lets us see, from a historical distance, these lost performers enacting the political, sexual, and artistic issues that made their city one of the most dynamic in Europe.
The Hot Girls of Weimar Berlin
Title | The Hot Girls of Weimar Berlin PDF eBook |
Author | Barbara Ulrich |
Publisher | Feral House |
Pages | 121 |
Release | 2010-08-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1932595929 |
Before the Nazis, there were the Hot Girls.
Before the Deluge
Title | Before the Deluge PDF eBook |
Author | Otto Friedrich |
Publisher | Harper Collins |
Pages | 442 |
Release | 1995-10-13 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0060926791 |
A fascinating portrait of the turbulent political, social, and cultural life of the city of Berlin in the 1920s.
Miniature Metropolis
Title | Miniature Metropolis PDF eBook |
Author | Andreas Huyssen |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 363 |
Release | 2015-04-06 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0674416724 |
Andreas Huyssen explores the history and theory of metropolitan miniatures—short prose pieces about urban life written for European newspapers. His fine-grained readings open vistas into German critical theory and the visual arts, revealing the miniature to be one of the few genuinely innovative modes of spatialized writing created by modernism.
Josef von Sternberg
Title | Josef von Sternberg PDF eBook |
Author | Alexander Horwath |
Publisher | Austrian Film Museum |
Pages | 312 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
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In his 1929 Hollywood production The Case of Lena Smith, director Josef von Sternberg vividly brought to life his youthful memories of the turn of the 20th century through the story a young woman fighting the oppressive class system of Imperial Vienna. Critic Dwight Macdonald called it "the most completely satisfying American film I have seen." And yet, only a short fragment survives. Assembling 150 original stills and set designs, numerous script and production documents and essays by eminent film historians, the book reconstructs one of the legendary lost masterpieces of the American cinema. It also includes essays by Janet Bergstrom, Gero Gandert, Franz Grafl, Alexander Horwath, Hiroshi Komatsu and Michael Omasta, a preface by Meri von Sternberg, as well as contemporary reviews and excerpts from Viennese literature of the era.