The mask dancers
https://strangeflowers.wordpress.com/2024/06/18/the-mask-dancers/
Published: June 18, 2024 15:42
Lavinia Schulz and Walter Holdt: fanatical creativity, wild performances and violent death in Weimar Germany
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The mask dancers
https://strangeflowers.wordpress.com/2024/06/18/the-mask-dancers/
Published: June 18, 2024 15:42
Lavinia Schulz and Walter Holdt: fanatical creativity, wild performances and violent death in Weimar Germany
Secret Satan, 2023
https://strangeflowers.wordpress.com/2023/11/30/secret-satan-2023/
Published: November 30, 2023 15:13
Panto dames, UFO guides, between-the-wars bohos, honorary Inuit, utopian assassins, extraordinary aesthetes and the sandwich man of the beyond – it's our annual book round-up!
Places: Villa Stuck
https://strangeflowers.wordpress.com/2023/11/12/places-villa-stuck/
Published: November 12, 2023 16:55
To Munich for the fin-de-siècle temple of artist Franz (von) Stuck, complete with an altar to sin
Doubles: Marie Corelli
https://strangeflowers.wordpress.com/2023/09/27/doubles-marie-corelli/
Published: September 27, 2023 13:01
A prolific author (and champion figure skater) takes on "perhaps the most accomplished liar in literature".
Valeska unveiled
https://strangeflowers.wordpress.com/2023/04/20/valeska-unveiled/
Published: April 20, 2023 12:28
A revolutionary production of Wilde’s Salomé staged by Valeska Gert in Berlin 100 years ago today
The bitter tears of Empress Elisabeth
https://strangeflowers.wordpress.com/2023/02/27/the-bitter-tears-of-empress-elisabeth/
Published: February 27, 2023 14:17
Our Lady of Sorrows riding side-saddle through a vale of tears, or a morbid, capricious, drug-addicted, tattooed narcissist? Or both?
Secret Satan, 2022
https://strangeflowers.wordpress.com/2022/11/28/secret-satan-2022/
Published: November 28, 2022 14:15
You know what to expect by now, surely? Well, expect even more of it: this is our biggest year-end book selection yet.
The Battle of Vienna
https://strangeflowers.wordpress.com/2022/11/14/the-battle-of-vienna/
Published: November 14, 2022 15:04
Anita Berber and Sebastian Droste bring their infernal cabaret to a temple of high culture; trouble ensues
The courting of Caresse Crosby
https://strangeflowers.wordpress.com/2022/09/09/the-courting-of-caresse-crosby/
Published: September 9, 2022 13:24
War-shattered nihilist poet Harry Crosby marries Polly Peabody (later Caresse Crosby), inventor of the bra, 100 years ago today.
Three Prose Works
https://strangeflowers.wordpress.com/2022/06/20/three-prose-works/
Published: June 20, 2022 13:02
A selection of vital and biographically charged pre-World War One fiction from the great Else Lasker-Schüler