Posts Tagged: Magnus Hirschfeld
22 books for 2022
We’ve got bad gays, can-can dancers and pataphysicians, we’ve got a Black Pope, an Expressionist Joan of Arc and the Last Emperor of Mexico. Won’t you join us?
22 books for 2022
We’ve got bad gays, can-can dancers and pataphysicians, we’ve got a Black Pope, an Expressionist Joan of Arc and the Last Emperor of Mexico. Won’t you join us?
21 books for 2021
A selection of works with which to while away your second or third lockdown.
Privates on parade
“His day’s service at an end, the soldier usually goes home to his friend…”
Secret Satan book list
More books than you can deal with, frankly.
Beware the polished little man
“He was absolutely unbearable. Perhaps this was precisely what attracted us.”
Beware the polished little man
“He was absolutely unbearable. Perhaps this was precisely what attracted us.”
Introducing Rixdorf Editions
Hidden cultural history, forgotten innovators and compellingly wayward souls – it’s SO Strange Flowers
Introducing Rixdorf Editions
Hidden cultural history, forgotten innovators and compellingly wayward souls – it’s SO Strange Flowers
14 books for 2014
Books, books, books – dirty and otherwise
Strange Flowers guide to Berlin: part 3
The retro-revellers at Bohème Sauvage are responding to a particular idea of Weimar Berlin, a fragile, frantic golden age of sexual license and social mobility, lewd and doomed. The undying allure of the Weimar Berlin evoked by Isherwood’s books ensures that the reality of the city in that era can never be divorced from its fictional echoes.
Strange Flowers guide to Berlin: part 3
The retro-revellers at Bohème Sauvage are responding to a particular idea of Weimar Berlin, a fragile, frantic golden age of sexual license and social mobility, lewd and doomed. The undying allure of the Weimar Berlin evoked by Isherwood’s books ensures that the reality of the city in that era can never be divorced from its fictional echoes.
Strange Flowers guide to Berlin: part 2
At the Weisse Maus there’s a fine line between performer and prostitute, but Anita Berber leaves no doubt that she is not on the menu. She acts up and acts out, urinating on stage, breaking a champagne bottle over a punter’s head.
Strange Flowers guide to Berlin: part 2
At the Weisse Maus there’s a fine line between performer and prostitute, but Anita Berber leaves no doubt that she is not on the menu. She acts up and acts out, urinating on stage, breaking a champagne bottle over a punter’s head.
Strange Flowers 