OKTOBERFEST

What to wear?

Ah, Oktoberfest. The Bavarian tradition of drinking, followed by more drinking. But chances are you didn’t click on this article for a history lesson — (Oktoberfest actually begins in September) Alex Wilking

Oktoberfest _ This article is about the original festival in Munich. For Oktoberfest celebrations around the world. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Kröppen

“I don't think humanity just replays history, but we are the same people our ancestors were, and our descendants are going to face a lot of the same situations we do. It's instructive to imagine how they would react, with different technologies on different worlds. That's why I write science fiction -- even though the term 'science fiction' excites disdain in certain persons.”    Kage Baker

Dances of Vice, Horror, and Ecstasy

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.

"Oh, Those Beautiful Weimar Girls"

WEIMAR REPUBLIC

HISTORY IS MADE AT NIGHT

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  ..    

The staircase

FILMOGRAFIE

1950 Die Treppe

1937  Einmal werd' ich Dir gefallen 

1932 Das erste Recht des Kindes 

West Germany, feature film

Alfred Braun
Gerda Ursula Zinn

               Ambika 1913-2012             

"Zinn carefully recited a monologue. Afterwards, Goebbels kissed her hand but Hitler, a germ-phobe, took her hand in his and then kissed the air above her wrist."