Goodbye to Berlin

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Isherwood's friends, especially the poet Stephen Spender, often lamented how the cinematic and stage adaptations of Goodbye to Berlin glossed over Weimar-era Berlin's crushing poverty: "There is not a single meal, or club, in the movie Cabaret, that Christopher and I could have afforded [in 1931]." [88] Spender, Isherwood, W.H. Auden and others asserted that both the 1972 film and 1966 Broadway musical deleteriously glamorised the harsh realities of the 1930s Weimar era. [88] [89] Influence [ edit ] Isherwood, Christopher (1976). Christopher and His Kind: A Memoir, 1929–1939. New York City: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 978-0374-53522-3– via Google Books. In an article for The New York Review of Books, writer Gore Vidal notes Isherwood's inordinate preoccupation with racial matters. [52] In contrast to Isherwood, Ross was noted in her later years for her commitment to racial equality. [49] In fact the really queer thing about Mr Norris Changes Trains and Goodbye to Berlin is how very, very unqueer they are.

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Christopher Isherwood Is Dead at 81". The New York Times. New York City. 6 January 1986. p.7. ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved 4 March 2021.

Frl. Schroeder [the landlady] is consolable... It's no use trying to explain to her, or talking politics. Already she is adapting herself, as she will adapt herself to every new regime. This morning I even heard her talking reverently about ' Der Fuhrer'... If anybody were to remind her that, at the elections last November, she voted Communist, she would probably deny it... Thousands of people like Frl. Schroeder are acclimatising themselves. In June 1979, critic Howard Moss of The New Yorker noted the peculiar resiliency of the character: "It is almost fifty years since Sally Bowles shared the recipe for a Prairie oyster with Herr Issyvoo [ sic] in a vain attempt to cure a hangover" and yet the character in subsequent permutations lives on "from story to play to movie to musical to movie-musical." [15]

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Gallagher, Paul (3 April 2014). "Life is a Cabaret: Christopher Isherwood on the real Sally Bowles, Berlin, writing and W. H. Auden". Dangerous Minds. Presented by Richard Metzger . Retrieved 2 October 2019.

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Farina, William (2013). "Christopher Isherwood, Reporting from Berlin". The German Cabaret Legacy in American Popular Music. London: McFarland & Company. ISBN 978-0-7864-6863-8– via Google Books. Izzo, David Garrett (2005). Christopher Isherwood Encyclopedia. London: McFarland & Company. ISBN 0-7864-1519-3 . Retrieved 11 February 2022. Isherwood 1976, p.2: "It was Berlin itself he was hungry to meet; the Berlin Wystan had promised him. To Christopher, Berlin meant Boys. At school, Christopher had fallen in love with many boys and had been yearningly romantic about them. At college he had at last managed to get into bed with one." Parker, Peter (2005) [2004]. Isherwood: A Life Revealed. London: Picador. ISBN 978-0-330-32826-5– via Google Books.

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Lehmann, John (1987). Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir. New York: Henry Holt and Company. ISBN 0-8050-1029-7– via Internet Archive. In another moment, when I had drunk exactly the right amount of champagne, I should have a vision. I took a sip. And now, with extreme clarity, without passion or malice, I saw what Life really is. It had something, I remember, to do with the revolving sunshade. Yes, I murmured to myself, let them dance. They are dancing, I am glad.

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It initially seems as if Berlin is going to really focus on this one central figure in the same was Norris focused on Norris, but Sally Bowles is a lot less interesting or funny as a character. There is something sad about her from the start, and she’s just not funny. She mistakes flirting and talking about her lovers for having something interesting to say. Wilmeth, Don B. (2007). The Cambridge Guide to American Theatre. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-83538-1– via Google Books.

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What can history tell us about sexuality and asylum seeking? At a time when LGBTQI refugees have become an increasingly prominent feature of public and political debates about the ‘Refugee Crisis’, we might be left to conclude that ‘sexual refugees’ are a comparatively ‘modern’ phenomenon. However, the history of sexual exile, of displacement and of being out-of-place because of sexuality, has a long history, particularly in Germany: Weimar Berlin became home to thousands of people seeking sanctuary and sexual liberation from the prudish and homophobic values of their home countries. How has this history been remembered and called upon in attempts to understand present day sexual minority displacement? Doyle, Rachel (12 April 2013). "Looking for Christopher Isherwood's Berlin". The New York Times. New York City. p.TR10 . Retrieved 11 February 2022.It’s only a short time…’ sobbed Frau Nowak; the tears running down over her hideous frog-like smile. And suddenly she started coughing – her body seemed to break in half like a hinged doll.