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The mask dancers
Lavinia Schulz and Walter Holdt: fanatical creativity, wild performances and violent death in Weimar Germany
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The mask dancers
Lavinia Schulz and Walter Holdt: fanatical creativity, wild performances and violent death in Weimar Germany
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Secret Satan, 2023
Panto dames, UFO guides, between-the-wars bohos, honorary Inuit, utopian assassins, extraordinary aesthetes and the sandwich man of the beyond – it’s our annual book round-up!
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Secret Satan, 2023
Panto dames, UFO guides, between-the-wars bohos, honorary Inuit, utopian assassins, extraordinary aesthetes and the sandwich man of the beyond – it’s our annual book round-up!
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Places: Villa Stuck
To Munich for the fin-de-siècle temple of artist Franz (von) Stuck, complete with an altar to sin
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Places: Villa Stuck
To Munich for the fin-de-siècle temple of artist Franz (von) Stuck, complete with an altar to sin
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Doubles: Marie Corelli
A prolific author (and champion figure skater) takes on “perhaps the most accomplished liar in literature”.
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Doubles: Marie Corelli
A prolific author (and champion figure skater) takes on “perhaps the most accomplished liar in literature”.
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Valeska unveiled
A revolutionary production of Wilde’s Salomé staged by Valeska Gert in Berlin 100 years ago today
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Valeska unveiled
A revolutionary production of Wilde’s Salomé staged by Valeska Gert in Berlin 100 years ago today
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The bitter tears of Empress Elisabeth
Our Lady of Sorrows riding side-saddle through a vale of tears, or a morbid, capricious, drug-addicted, tattooed narcissist? Or both?
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The bitter tears of Empress Elisabeth
Our Lady of Sorrows riding side-saddle through a vale of tears, or a morbid, capricious, drug-addicted, tattooed narcissist? Or both?
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Secret Satan, 2022
You know what to expect by now, surely? Well, expect even more of it: this is our biggest year-end book selection yet.
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The Battle of Vienna
Anita Berber and Sebastian Droste bring their infernal cabaret to a temple of high culture; trouble ensues
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The Battle of Vienna
Anita Berber and Sebastian Droste bring their infernal cabaret to a temple of high culture; trouble ensues
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The courting of Caresse Crosby
War-shattered nihilist poet Harry Crosby marries Polly Peabody (later Caresse Crosby), inventor of the bra, 100 years ago today.
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The courting of Caresse Crosby
War-shattered nihilist poet Harry Crosby marries Polly Peabody (later Caresse Crosby), inventor of the bra, 100 years ago today.
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Three Prose Works
A selection of vital and biographically charged pre-World War One fiction from the great Else Lasker-Schüler
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Three Prose Works
A selection of vital and biographically charged pre-World War One fiction from the great Else Lasker-Schüler
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Rosa Bonheur in 22 images
Born 200 years ago today, Rosa Bonheur would go on to become the most successful woman artist of the 19th century.
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Rosa Bonheur in 22 images
Born 200 years ago today, Rosa Bonheur would go on to become the most successful woman artist of the 19th century.
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22 books for 2022
We’ve got bad gays, can-can dancers and pataphysicians, we’ve got a Black Pope, an Expressionist Joan of Arc and the Last Emperor of Mexico. Won’t you join us?
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22 books for 2022
We’ve got bad gays, can-can dancers and pataphysicians, we’ve got a Black Pope, an Expressionist Joan of Arc and the Last Emperor of Mexico. Won’t you join us?
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Merely real
Count Robert de Montesquiou, poet, dandy, aesthete, on the 100th anniversary of his death
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Merely real
Count Robert de Montesquiou, poet, dandy, aesthete, on the 100th anniversary of his death
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Secret Satan, 2021 part 2
Dreaming rebels, dames and showgirls, emphatic queers and seekers of the Elysian Fields
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Secret Satan, 2021 part 2
Dreaming rebels, dames and showgirls, emphatic queers and seekers of the Elysian Fields
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Secret Satan, 2021 part 1
From Romanian avant-garde Elvis to all the Swedish anarchist Sufi Post-Impressionsists you can imagine
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Secret Satan, 2021 part 1
From Romanian avant-garde Elvis to all the Swedish anarchist Sufi Post-Impressionsists you can imagine
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Introducing Papa Hamlet
My latest translation for Rixdorf Editions, in case you’ve been wondering why things have been quiet around here …
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Introducing Papa Hamlet
My latest translation for Rixdorf Editions, in case you’ve been wondering why things have been quiet around here …
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Summer* reading list
A selection of beach reads – only some of them ironically so!
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The bohemian countess and her foster fatherland
Writer Franziska zu Reventlow and a warning about heedless nationalism on the 150th anniversary of her birth
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The bohemian countess and her foster fatherland
Writer Franziska zu Reventlow and a warning about heedless nationalism on the 150th anniversary of her birth
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21 books for 2021
A selection of works with which to while away your second or third lockdown.
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Lights in the darkness
The 1966 short film by Marie Menken, who died 50 years ago today.