The Hot Girls of Weimar Berlin
Author: Barbara Ulrich
Publisher: Feral House
Published: 2010-08-01
Total Pages: 121
ISBN-13: 1932595929
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBefore the Nazis, there were the Hot Girls.
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Voluptuous Panic
Author: Mel Gordon
Publisher: Feral House
Published: 2008-08-01
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 193259597X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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
Author: Mel Gordon
Publisher:
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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.
The Artificial Silk Girl
Author: Irmgard Keun
Publisher: Other Press, LLC
Published: 2011-06-14
Total Pages: 217
ISBN-13: 1590514548
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1931, a young woman writer living in Germany was inspired by Anita Loos's Gentlemen Prefer Blondes to describe pre-war Berlin and the age of cinematic glamour through the eyes of a woman. The resulting novel, The Artificial Silk Girl, became an acclaimed bestseller and a masterwork of German literature, in the tradition of Christopher Isherwood's Berlin Stories and Bertolt Brecht's Three Penny Opera. Like Isherwood and Brecht, Keun revealed the dark underside of Berlin's "golden twenties" with empathy and honesty. Unfortunately, a Nazi censorship board banned Keun's work in 1933 and destroyed all existing copies of The Artificial Silk Girl. Only one English translation was published, in Great Britain, before the book disappeared in the chaos of the ensuing war. Today, more than seven decades later, the story of this quintessential "material girl" remains as relevant as ever, as an accessible new translation brings this lost classic to light once more. Other Press is pleased to announce the republication of The Artificial Silk Girl, elegantly translated by noted Germanist Kathie von Ankum, and with a new introduction by Harvard professor Maria Tatar.
Billy Wilder on Assignment
Author: Billy Wilder
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2021-04-27
Total Pages: 222
ISBN-13: 0691194947
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Before Billy Wilder (1906-2002) left Europe for the United States in 1934 and became a filmmaker, he worked as a newspaper reporter, first in Vienna and then in Weimar Berlin. This book, edited and introduced by Noah Isenberg and translated by Shelley Frisch, collects about 65 articles Wilder published in Austrian and German newspapers in the 1920s. The collection includes reported pieces on urban life, from a first-person account of Wilder's stint as a taxi dancer to an article about street sweepers; profiles of writers, movie stars and poker players; and dispatches from the international film scene, from reviews to interviews with such figures as Charlie Chaplin and Erich von Stroheim. Isenberg provides an introduction that gives biographical details and places the writings in context, emphasizing their historical moment and their connections to Wilder's later career"--
The Modern Girl Around the World
Author: Alys Eve The Modern Girl around the World Research Group
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2008-12-24
Total Pages: 449
ISBN-13: 0822389193
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDuring the 1920s and 1930s, in cities from Beijing to Bombay, Tokyo to Berlin, Johannesburg to New York, the Modern Girl made her sometimes flashy, always fashionable appearance in city streets and cafes, in films, advertisements, and illustrated magazines. Modern Girls wore sexy clothes and high heels; they applied lipstick and other cosmetics. Dressed in provocative attire and in hot pursuit of romantic love, Modern Girls appeared on the surface to disregard the prescribed roles of dutiful daughter, wife, and mother. Contemporaries debated whether the Modern Girl was looking for sexual, economic, or political emancipation, or whether she was little more than an image, a hollow product of the emerging global commodity culture. The contributors to this collection track the Modern Girl as she emerged as a global phenomenon in the interwar period. Scholars of history, women’s studies, literature, and cultural studies follow the Modern Girl around the world, analyzing her manifestations in Germany, Australia, China, Japan, France, India, the United States, Russia, South Africa, and Zimbabwe. Along the way, they demonstrate how the economic structures and cultural flows that shaped a particular form of modern femininity crossed national and imperial boundaries. In so doing, they highlight the gendered dynamics of interwar processes of racial formation, showing how images and ideas of the Modern Girl were used to shore up or critique nationalist and imperial agendas. A mix of collaborative and individually authored chapters, the volume concludes with commentaries by Kathy Peiss, Miriam Silverberg, and Timothy Burke. Contributors: Davarian L. Baldwin, Tani E. Barlow, Timothy Burke, Liz Conor, Madeleine Yue Dong, Anne E. Gorsuch, Ruri Ito, Kathy Peiss, Uta G. Poiger, Priti Ramamurthy, Mary Louise Roberts, Barbara Sato, Miriam Silverberg, Lynn M. Thomas, Alys Eve Weinbaum
Gay Berlin
Author: Robert Beachy
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2015-10-13
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 0307473139
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWinner of Randy Shilts Award In the half century before the Nazis rose to power, Berlin became the undisputed gay capital of the world. Activists and medical professionals made it a city of firsts—the first gay journal, the first homosexual rights organization, the first Institute for Sexual Science, the first sex reassignment surgeries—exploring and educating themselves and the rest of the world about new ways of understanding the human condition. In this fascinating examination of how the uninhibited urban culture of Berlin helped create our categories of sexual orientation and gender identity, Robert Beachy guides readers through the past events and developments that continue to shape and influence our thinking about sex and gender to this day.
Before the Deluge
Author: Otto Friedrich
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 1995-10-13
Total Pages: 442
ISBN-13: 0060926791
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA fascinating portrait of the turbulent political, social, and cultural life of the city of Berlin in the 1920s.
Weimar Culture: The Outsider as Insider
Author: Peter Gay
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2001-12-17
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 0393069591
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA seminal work as melodious and haunting as the era it chronicles. First published in 1968, Weimar Culture is one of the masterworks of Peter Gay's distinguished career. A study of German culture between the two wars, the book brilliantly traces the rise of the artistic, literary, and musical culture that bloomed ever so briefly in the 1920s amid the chaos of Germany's tenuous post-World War I democracy, and crashed violently in the wake of Hitler's rise to power. Despite the ephemeral nature of the Weimar democracy, the influence of its culture was profound and far-reaching, ushering in a modern sensibility in the arts that dominated Western culture for most of the twentieth century. Vivid and eminently readable, Weimar Culture is the finest introduction for the casual reader and historian alike.
Voluptuous Panic
Author: Mel Gordon
Publisher:
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 303
ISBN-13: 9781932595116
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis sourcebook of hundreds of rare visual delights from pre-Nazi, Cabaret-period of Weimar Berlin 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 the new illustrated chapter Sex, Magic and the Occult, documenting German pagan cults and their bizarre erotic rituals, including instructions for entering into the Sexual Fourth Dimension.
