Category Archives: Berlin
Flaneur through modernity
Harry Graf Kessler, “one of the most cosmopolitan men who ever lived” (with the world’s worst gaydar)
Flaneur through modernity
Harry Graf Kessler, “one of the most cosmopolitan men who ever lived” (with the world’s worst gaydar)
The rose and the bomb
Weimar Berlin, the soft opening: the debut of Anita Berber and Valeska Gert, 100 years ago today
The rose and the bomb
Weimar Berlin, the soft opening: the debut of Anita Berber and Valeska Gert, 100 years ago today
The Kaiser of Utopia
German writer Paul Scheerbart, who died 100 years ago today
Places: Architektenhaus
A major pre-Dada event, 100 years ago today
Der Geldkomplex
A new Spanish film based on the novel by Fanny zu Reventlow
15 books for 2015
Bricktop, Baron Corvo and Bertolt Brecht join a cast of…oh, about two dozen
Ade, altes Frauenzimmer
German actress Luise Rainer (1910-2014)
Places: Crowley’s Berlin
The Great Beast witnesses the Weimar twilight
Oskar Schlemmer | Triadic Ballet designs
The return of the Bauhaus polymath’s revolutionary 1922 dance piece
Oskar Schlemmer | Triadic Ballet designs
The return of the Bauhaus polymath’s revolutionary 1922 dance piece
AB is back again
The gamut of Anita Berber’s radical choreography in a 12-day programme
Satan Came to Eden
“Wherever you go, you bring yourself”
The hands of Renée Sintenis
“What life, energy, power, temperament and artistry they express!”
The hands of Renée Sintenis
“What life, energy, power, temperament and artistry they express!”
14 books for 2014
Books, books, books – dirty and otherwise
Mühsam meets Meyrink
“It must have been around midnight…”
