May 2010
Author Christopher Isherwood, describing an exchange that led him to move to Weimar-era Berlin as a young man:
‘Is Berlin so bad?’ I asked, trying not to sound too interested.
‘Christopher—in the whole of the ‘Thousand and One Nights’, in the most shameless rituals of the Tantras, in the carvings on the Black Pagoda, in the Japanese brothel pictures, in the...
“Sex was the business of the town. At the Eden Hotel, where I lived, the cafe bar...”
– Louise Brooks, describing the Weimar Berlin of 1928
Berlin in the 1920’s
