A dance between flames. Berlin between the wars. - Gill, Anton.
Berlin between the wars
KORTE INHOUD
Anton Gill brilliantly recaptures the Berlin of the Twenties and Thirties, where the world's most exotic talents flourished against a background of decadence, corruption, hyperinflation and finally fear.
For a few, the Twenties really were golden. Max Reinhardt, Bertolt Brecht, Marlene Dietrich, Greta Garbo and Josephine Baker electrified the stage. Berlin became the cabaret capital of the world, just as in the film Cabaret--inspired by Christopher Isherwood who was there with Auden and Spender. Harry Kessler rubbed shoulders with Einstein, Kurt Tucholsky with Arthur Koestler; Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya with Klemperer and Karajan; Grosz, Kandinsky and Kokoschka with the founders of the Bauhaus; Max Schmeling with Anita Berber. Berlin was the Hollywood, where Fritz Lang, Josef Von Sternberg, Ernst Lubitsch and Billy Wilder all started their careers.
For most Berliners, though, life was harsh. While the rich danced there was fighting on the streets. When the mark crashed those with hard currency lived like prince...
For a few, the Twenties really were golden. Max Reinhardt, Bertolt Brecht, Marlene Dietrich, Greta Garbo and Josephine Baker electrified the stage. Berlin became the cabaret capital of the world, just as in the film Cabaret--inspired by Christopher Isherwood who was there with Auden and Spender. Harry Kessler rubbed shoulders with Einstein, Kurt Tucholsky with Arthur Koestler; Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya with Klemperer and Karajan; Grosz, Kandinsky and Kokoschka with the founders of the Bauhaus; Max Schmeling with Anita Berber. Berlin was the Hollywood, where Fritz Lang, Josef Von Sternberg, Ernst Lubitsch and Billy Wilder all started their careers.
For most Berliners, though, life was harsh. While the rich danced there was fighting on the streets. When the mark crashed those with hard currency lived like prince...
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1993Uitgever: London, John Murray Publishers Ltd, 1993.308 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 0719549868ISBN-13: 9780719549861Koop dit boek tweedehands
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1993, clothbound with dust jacket, good copy [Auteur: Gill, Anton] [Taal: en] [Uitgever: John Murray] [Jaar: 1993] [Titel: A Dance Between Flames]
