Category Archives: Munich
Secret Satan, 2021 part 2
Dreaming rebels, dames and showgirls, emphatic queers and seekers of the Elysian Fields
Secret Satan, 2021 part 2
Dreaming rebels, dames and showgirls, emphatic queers and seekers of the Elysian Fields
The bohemian countess and her foster fatherland
Writer Franziska zu Reventlow and a warning about heedless nationalism on the 150th anniversary of her birth
The bohemian countess and her foster fatherland
Writer Franziska zu Reventlow and a warning about heedless nationalism on the 150th anniversary of her birth
Places: Ludwig the Second first and last
The legend begins … and ends. The Bavarian king left questions throughout his life, but particularly at its extremities.
Places: Ludwig the Second first and last
The legend begins … and ends. The Bavarian king left questions throughout his life, but particularly at its extremities.
Secret Satan, 2018
Your essential Christmas book list – it’s naughty, it’s nice. Mostly naughty if we’re honest.
Secret Satan, 2018
Your essential Christmas book list – it’s naughty, it’s nice. Mostly naughty if we’re honest.
Beyond the veil
‘Take this white rose – it will redden when I return and then you will be my bride.’ Two excerpts from Death and companion piece Prose Poems, by German author Anna Croissant-Rust
Beyond the veil
‘Take this white rose – it will redden when I return and then you will be my bride.’ Two excerpts from Death and companion piece Prose Poems, by German author Anna Croissant-Rust
Dormition of the Heathen Madonna
Fanny zu Reventlow, the “bohemian countess” of Munich around 1900
Doubles: Sybille Schmitz
The inspiration for Fassbinder’s masterpiece, Veronika Voss
At home with Franz von Stuck
Paying homage in the temple of the self
Kubin the writer
The sole literary effort from a master of dark illustrations
Dress-down Friday: Fanny zu Reventlow
The blue-blooded bombshell of Bavarian Bohème
Frank Eugene | performers
Eugene was one of the first to make the case for photography as an artistic medium.
Frank Eugene | performers
Eugene was one of the first to make the case for photography as an artistic medium.
Bohemia liquidates itself
“…prostitutes admitted that their main purpose in attending Action Group meetings had been to tout for trade, while others claimed to have participated because of the free beer and to have been too drunk to understand what was going on…”
Bohemia liquidates itself
“…prostitutes admitted that their main purpose in attending Action Group meetings had been to tout for trade, while others claimed to have participated because of the free beer and to have been too drunk to understand what was going on…”
Various | Jugend 1896
The magazine Jugend (“Youth”) was established in 1896 as a “Munich illustrated weekly of art and life”.
Various | Jugend 1896
The magazine Jugend (“Youth”) was established in 1896 as a “Munich illustrated weekly of art and life”.
Dress-down Friday: Gusto Gräser
Gräser’s idealism, ascetic lifestyle and incessant wanderings bring to mind a Herman Hesse character. And little wonder; Hesse was one of Gräser’s followers and worked both the personality and teachings of his guru through several of his books.
Dress-down Friday: Gusto Gräser
Gräser’s idealism, ascetic lifestyle and incessant wanderings bring to mind a Herman Hesse character. And little wonder; Hesse was one of Gräser’s followers and worked both the personality and teachings of his guru through several of his books.
Circles: Fanny zu Reventlow
The “Cosmic Countess” serves as a fairly arbitrary mid-point around which to gather some of the key figures who made the Bavarian capital one of Europe’s most exciting, progressive cities at the beginning of the 20th century.
Circles: Fanny zu Reventlow
The “Cosmic Countess” serves as a fairly arbitrary mid-point around which to gather some of the key figures who made the Bavarian capital one of Europe’s most exciting, progressive cities at the beginning of the 20th century.
Pearls: Oscar A. H. Schmitz
Have hope (and stiff cuffs…)
Places: Schleißheim
Complaining about the lack of conventional narrative in Last Year at Marienbad is like standing in front of a Pollock and asking where the basket of fruit is.
Places: Schleißheim
Complaining about the lack of conventional narrative in Last Year at Marienbad is like standing in front of a Pollock and asking where the basket of fruit is.
Munich
We’ve talked about enough obscure, unfairly forgotten people here, but with pre-World War One Schwabing a whole milieu is largely unexamined, in the English-speaking world at least.
Munich
We’ve talked about enough obscure, unfairly forgotten people here, but with pre-World War One Schwabing a whole milieu is largely unexamined, in the English-speaking world at least.
Franziska zu Reventlow | artworks
The fragments of her artistic output which survive are a modest yet intriguing glimpse into a highly unconventional life.
Franziska zu Reventlow | artworks
The fragments of her artistic output which survive are a modest yet intriguing glimpse into a highly unconventional life.
Alastair on film
It is difficult to imagine Alastair – the evanescent being who even in his heyday was little known to the public, who viewed the 1890s through the prism of the 1920s – even existing in the 1960s, let alone turning up on television.
Alastair on film
It is difficult to imagine Alastair – the evanescent being who even in his heyday was little known to the public, who viewed the 1890s through the prism of the 1920s – even existing in the 1960s, let alone turning up on television.
Strange Flowers 