{"id":9298,"date":"2011-05-05T02:53:21","date_gmt":"2011-05-05T01:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=9298"},"modified":"2011-05-05T04:14:17","modified_gmt":"2011-05-05T03:14:17","slug":"anita-berber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2011\/05\/05\/anita-berber\/","title":{"rendered":"Anita Berber"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/elasticlimit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/gad_07-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/dix.jpg\" alt=\"dix.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Anita Berber (1925) by Otto Dix.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re going to live fast and die young you can do worse than be immortalised by a great painter, as Anita Berber was by the German Expressionist Otto Dix. An &#8220;exotic dancer&#8221; (among other things) in the Berlin cabarets of the 1920s, Ms Berber died at the age of 29 from a bout of TB but it&#8217;s likely that drink and drugs (she was fond of both) would have ruined her eventually. She left us with this striking picture, many <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lpYB2YE3ZCU\" target=\"_blank\">equally striking photos<\/a>, and tales of scandalous behaviour involving nude dancing and sexual partners of any gender. Rather than paraphrase further, I can point you to a typically fine piece about the wild woman at <a href=\"http:\/\/strangeflowers.wordpress.com\/2010\/06\/10\/goddess-of-the-night\/\" target=\"_blank\">Strange Flowers<\/a>. Ten Dreams has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tendreams.org\/dix.htm\" target=\"_blank\">more paintings<\/a> by the great Otto whose Berber portrait was used on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Anita_Berber_Briefmarke_1991.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">a German postage stamp<\/a> in 1991. Impossible to imagine the Royal Mail putting a bisexual drug addict on a postage stamp here, no matter how celebrated the artist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anita Berber (1925) by Otto Dix. If you&#8217;re going to live fast and die young you can do worse than be immortalised by a great painter, as Anita Berber was by the German Expressionist Otto Dix. An &#8220;exotic dancer&#8221; (among other things) in the Berlin cabarets of the 1920s, Ms Berber died at the age &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2011\/05\/05\/anita-berber\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Anita Berber&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,851,5,44],"tags":[2511,2512,2419],"class_list":["post-9298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-drugs","category-gay","category-painting","tag-anita-berber","tag-otto-dix","tag-strange-flowers"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-2pY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}