The Seven Addictions And Five Professions Of Anita Berber: Weimar Berlin's Priestess of Decadence

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Mel Gordon

The Seven Addictions And Five Professions Of Anita Berber

Weimar Berlin's Priestess of Decadence

Mel Gordon

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Feral House,U.S.
08 August 2006

Dance & Performing arts; Biography; Biography: general

The Seven Addictions and Five Professions of Anita Berber is the first contemporary biography of a notorious actor/dancer/poet/playwright who scandalized sex-obsessed Weimar Berlin during the 1920s.

In an era where everything was permitted, Anita Berber's celebrations of ""Depravity, Horror and Ecstasy"" were condemned and censored. She often haunted Weimar Berlin's hotel lobbies, nightclubs and casinos, radiantly naked except for an elegant sable wrap, a pet monkey hanging from her neck, and a silver brooch packed with cocaine. Multi-talented Anita saw no boundaries between her personal life and her taboo-shattering performances. As such, she was Europe's first postmodern woman.

Among those Anita Berber claimed as members of her vast sexual harem were Marlene Dietrich, Magnus Hirschfeld (the founder of modern sexology and gay liberation), Klaus Mann, Conrad Veidt, Lawrence Durrell, and the King of Yugoslavia. Berber acted in Fritz Lang's Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler and starred in the silent epic, Lucifer. Even Leni Riefenstahl credits Berber for inspiring her controversial career. After sated Berliners finally tired of Anita Berber's libidinous antics, she became a ""carrion soul that even the hyenas ignored,"" dying in 1928 at the age of 29.

The Seven Addictions and Five Professions of Anita Berber chronicles a remarkable career, including over 150 photographs and drawings that recreate Anita's enduring ""Repertoire of the Damned.""

By: Mel Gordon
Imprint: Feral House,U.S.
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 254mm, Width: 177mm, Spine: 12mm
Weight: 461g
ISBN: 9781932595123
ISBN 10: 1932595120
Pages: 260
Publication Date: 08 August 2006
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Mel Gordon is a professor of theatre at the University of California, Berkeley, and is also the author of The Grand Guignol: Theatre of Fear and Terror (Da Capo) and Erik Jan Hanussen: Hitler's Jewish Clairvoyant (Feral House, also available from Turnaround)