Friday 17 June 2011

The Priestess of Depravity


"The Dancer Anita Berber", Otto Dix, 1925

What a woman!
"She danced nude in nightclubs, seduced a wide swathe of the the population, both male and female, appeared in soft porn silent films, drank on the average one bottle of cognac per day, married three times, was addicted to cocaine and opium, was never seen in public without heavy make-up, talked incessantly, told lies with abandon and, predictably, died at an early age."

Read more at The Random Jottings of Madam Arcati (my erstwhile other half's fantastic blog).

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  1. Anita Berber came to a sad end. Her behavior got her in trouble with club owners. She became verbally and physically abusive ti their clients. Once in Vienna she kicked a man in the mouth, he sued the club owners and won a hefty settlement. After that word went out, don't book Anita ! She went from performing at the best nightclubs in Berlin, Hamburg, Leipzig, Vienna, Paris, Stockholm, Warsaw, Barcelona, Milan to playing in Europe's second cities ie Trieste, Mannheim, Lille in flop houses. Her addictions had caught up with her. -Rj

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    1. A helluva risk-taker - she even got jailed in Zagreb for insulting the King of Yugoslavia! The true pioneer of the phrase "live fast, die young". Jx

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