The Seven Addictions and Five Professions of Anita Berber: Weimar Berlin’s Priestess of Depravity

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The Seven Addictions and Five Professions of Anita Berber is the first latest biography of a notorious actor/dancer/poet/playwright who scandalized sex-obsessed Weimar Berlin right through the 1920s.

In an era where the whole thing was once permitted, Anita Berber‘s celebrations of “Depravity, Horror and Ecstasy” were condemned and censored. She steadily haunted Weimar Berlin’s hotel lobbies, nightclubs and casinos, radiantly naked aside from for an elegant sable wrap, a pet monkey hanging from her neck, and a silver brooch packed with cocaine. Multi-talented Anita saw no boundaries between her personal life and her taboo-shattering performances. As such, she was once Europe’s first postmodern woman.

Among those Anita Berber claimed as members of her vast sexual harem were Marlene Dietrich, Magnus Hirschfeld (the founder of up to date sexology and gay liberation), Klaus Mann, Conrad Veidt, Lawrence Durrell, and the King of Yugoslavia. Berber acted in Fritz Lang’s Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler and starred within the silent epic, Lucifer. Even Leni Riefenstahl credits Berber for inspiring her controversial career. After sated Berliners in the end tired of Anita Berber’s libidinous antics, she became a “carrion soul that even the hyenas ignored,” dying in 1928 on the age of 29.

The Seven Addictions and Five Professions of Anita Berber chronicles a remarkable career, including over 150 photographs and drawings that recreate Anita’s enduring “Repertoire of the Damned.”


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