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Focusing on Berlin's heyday as a hotbed of both artistic excellence and moral decadence, this survey also assesses the political and historical factors that encouraged - or failed to prevent - the rise of Nazism. Between November 1919 and September 1939, many of this century's most sensational events in politics, the arts, theatre, cinema and night life took place in Berlin, where vulgarity and greatness lived side by side. High culture, epitomized in the works of Brecht, Max Reinhardt and Erwin Piscator, was matched by the city's glamorously decadent night-life. Part-politicized and part-criminal clubs thrived, the cabaret of political life sharing the same colour and exoticism as the city's underworld elements. Anton Gill fills in the political history of Berlin with passages describing the cultural scene. He sketches the characters of scientists, actors and actresses, composers, conductors, painters and businessmen in an era which is arguably the nearest thing to a Renaissance revival the 20th century has seen.Product Identifiers
PublisherLittle, Brown Book Group
ISBN-139780349106298
eBay Product ID (ePID)86476704
Product Key Features
Number of Pages304 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameA Dance between Flames
Publication Year1995
SubjectHistory
TypeTextbook
AuthorAnton Gill
FormatPaperback
Dimensions
Item Height198 mm
Item Weight320 g
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Title_AuthorAnton Gill