6/2/2023 0 Comments Berlin babylonSmall wonder that artists, writers, and filmmakers have been drawn, again and again, over generations, to depict that time and place. Because of its fragility, the irreconcilable forces that threatened it, and the apocalyptic air that came to enshroud its short-lived existence, the Weimar Republic has often been perceived as “a dance on the edge of a volcano,” as the great Yale historian Peter Gay famously called it, or a “voluptuous panic,” as Mel Gordon titled his erotic history of the period. “In the streets of Berlin, one is often struck by the momentary insight that someday all this will suddenly burst apart,” observed the critic and journalist Siegfried Kracauer in a 1926 essay on the city’s picture palaces. Liv Lisa Fries as Charlotte Ritter in Babylon Berlin, 2017
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