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

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The first contemporary biography of a notorious actor, dancer, poet and playwright who scandalised 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. Decadent and outrageous to the end, Berber died at 29, ignored and isolated.

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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)