Illustrated by Lotte Goslar, this book provides, through her sketch-like texts, an account of her life during a traumatic period in world history. Her observations of daily human foibles and vanities are interspersed with her interactions with such major figures as Palucca, Voskovec and Werich, Brecht, Charles Laughton and Elsa Lanchester, Hans Sahl and Marilyn Monroe. The book includes texts by Horst Koegler, Voskovec and Weich, Joel Schechter and Bertolt Brecht.
By:
Lotte Goslar
Illustrated by:
Lotte Goslar
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Volume: v. 15
Dimensions:
Height: 246mm,
Width: 174mm,
Spine: 254mm
Weight: 566g
ISBN: 9789057021763
ISBN 10: 9057021765
Series: Choreography and Dance Studies Series
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 16 July 1998
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
General/trade
,
Undergraduate
,
ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Chapter 1 How Sweet It Is; Chapter 2 First Memories; Chapter 3 Palucca; Chapter 4 So Much Luck (I); Chapter 5 The Disgruntled; Chapter 6 Up and Out; Chapter 7 The Peppermill Theater; Chapter 8 The Liberated Theater; Chapter 9 The Dancing Clown, Voskovec, Werich; Chapter 10 The Fortune Teller; Chapter 11 Off to America; Chapter 12 A Propos Aging; Chapter 13 So Much Luck (II); Chapter 14 On Tour: Road Signs; Chapter 15 To The Rescue; Chapter 16 A New World; Chapter 17 The Turnabout Theater; Chapter 18 My Film Career; Chapter 19 Cats I’ve Met; Chapter 20 The Dancing Hausfrau; Chapter 21 Lotte Goslar’s Circus Scene, Joel Schechter; Chapter 22 TV; Chapter 23 Magic; Chapter 24 Not So Magic; Chapter 25 A New Experience; Chapter 26 Marilyn; Chapter 27 A Large Landscape; Chapter 28 What’s So Funny?;
Authored by Goslar, Lotte
Reviews for What's So Funny?: Sketches from My Life
Her name is Goslar, but she was born in Dresden. She wanted to become a dancer and studied with Palucca, but she became a mime and a clown and created for herself her own form that she called 'Pantomime Circus'. Clive Barnes, until recently the all-powerful critic of The New York Times, took the easy way out and called her simply 'divine'. <br>-Horst Koegler <br>
