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Anita Berber (1899 ~ 1928) was a German dancer, actress, and writer who was the subject of an Otto Dix painting. She lived during the Weimar period.

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The character of Sally Bowles, which first appeared in Christopher Isherwood’s The Berlin Stories, is based on the popular cabaret artist Anita Berber, painted in this picture by Otto Dix. Otto Friedrich says about Berber: “Nobody remembers her now, but in her time, she seemed to epitomize the spirit of the Berlin cabaret… The daughter of a violinist in the Leipzig orchestra, and originally a serious student of ballet, she took several husbands and many lovers; she was also a Lesbian. She was an alcoholic, and addicted to both morphine and cocaine. She appeared at every major prizefight and bicycle race, often accompanied by a band of thugs”. Anita Berber died at the age of twenty-nine.  READ MORE HERE..

Anita Berber was the daughter of a professor of the violin virtuoso 

Felix Berber and cabaret artist and singer Lucie Berber.

SIEGFRIED FOLLIES    ...   CABARET  ..