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After collapsing in Damascus, she returned to Germany and died in a Kreuzberg hospital on 10 November 1928, although rumour had it that she died surrounded by empty morphine syringes. [8] Berber was buried in a pauper 's grave in St. Thomas Cemetery in Neukölln .
Aug 14, 2017 · She returned home to Berlin where she died “surrounded by empty morphine syringes” on November 10th, 1928. Anita Berber was twenty-nine. She was buried in a pauper’s grave and may have been long forgotten had it not been for Dix’s portrait that kept her legend alive.
Feb 1, 2015 · Around nine o’clock in the evening of Saturday the 10th November 1928 the twenty nine year old dancer Anita Berber died. Anita’s funeral was arranged for four days later. On the morning of Wednesday 14th November she was buried in St Thomas’ cemetery in the Neukölln district.
Aug 21, 2024 · We’ll cover her rise to infamy, her many partnerships both personal and professional, and the eventual decline that led to her untimely death at just 29 years old.
- Anita Berber, A Young Dancer
- Famous on and Off The Stage
- Cocaine and Absinthe
- Otto Dix and His Dancer
- An Untimely Death of Anita Berber
Anita Berber was born into a middle-class family with artistic leanings. Her father, Felix, was the First Violinist of the Municipal Orchestra, and her mother Lucie was a dancer and aspiring actress. After her parents’ divorce, Berber lived with her grandmother. In 1913, she attended a modern dance school where she learned rhythmic gymnastics. She ...
In 1919, Berber married a wealthy screenwriter, Eberhard von Nathusius. They divorced after she fell in love with a lesbian bar owner, Susi Wanowski, who became her manager as well as her lover. Besides dancing in cabarets, Berber also made more than a dozen appearances in films, including a role in the 1919 silent film Different From the Others. T...
In 1922, Berber married the dancer Sebastian Droste and the two of them created a book of poetry and photography titled Dances of Vice, Horror and Ecstasy, which they also performed in various nightclubs. They both struggled with alcohol and drug addiction, most notably cocaine, and their performances and poetry often included references to drugs. ...
In 1925, Otto Dix, a German artist whose work was often heavily critical of the war, painted an intriguing portrait of Berber. Rather than depicting Berber nude, he painted her in a slinky red dress, one hand resting on her hip. She strikes a fierce, vampy pose, and her face is thickly coated in make-up as if she’s wearing a mask. Dix and his wife ...
In 1928, Berber collapsed during a performance at a Beirut nightclub. A few months later she died from tuberculosis, most likely the result of years of drug abuse. Following her death, an unflattering and largely fabricated biography emerged, which shaped Berber’s legacy for decades. More recently she’s been seen in a new light, thanks to LGBTQ+and...
Born into a respectable middle-class family in Leipzig in 1899 (some sources state 1898); died of tuberculosis and drug addiction in 1928; daughter of Felix Berber (a concertmaster of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra).
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Nov 4, 2021 · The daughter of a concert violinist and a dancer who divorced when Berber was four years old, she first studied dance aged 14 at a school of contemporary performance in her home city of Dresden where she was brought up variously by her grandmother, friends of her mother and, briefly, in a children’s home.
