( Die Dame magazine 1917) (Die Dame magazine 1918)
Anita Berber was born in Dresden on June 10th 1899. Anita enrolled herself in acting classes and was soon spotted by Rita Sacchetto. Anita's stardom rose and she was soon touring around Germany and Austria with the dance troupe Sacchetto. By 1918 she had made her first of nine silent films, was becoming a sought-after model and was touring her own solo programme. It was during an after-show party at a Vienna hotel, that a drunken Anita Berber danced naked in public for the first time. Meanwhile her personal life had begun spiralling out of control with tales of lesbian affairs and S&M sex emerging from her tour to Vienna and reaching the daily newspapers of Berlin.
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Picture on the far right (“Bitte Zahlen” 1921 image: Ernst Schneider)
In the 1920s everybody knew the famous cabaret dancer Anita Berber, her real life makes Christopher Isherwood's fictional Sally Bowles seem tame Berber swanned around town wearing only a sable coat and a cocaine-packed silver brooch carrying her pet monkey at her side.
Information sourced from: http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052970203471004577141353667947254
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