Wort(g)arten – Lesereihe: Der ewige Tanz / Steffen Schroeder (Potsdam)

In the organizer's words:

Summer 1928: Anita Berber lies weakened in a Berlin hospital. She had just been a star, embodying the new era on stage and in dozens of films, living and loving excessively. She thinks back to her path to divine dance, to the great Fritz Lang and the ambitious Marlene Dietrich, who soon copied Anita's style. She wanted to turn dance into art, into a celebration of life - others only saw scandal. Steffen Schroeder tells the story of Anita Berber's exciting life, which epitomizes this era - between self-determination, the greatest freedom and risk. She died at the age of just twenty-nine. A gripping panorama with an ardent heroine.

See also on Fri 05 Dec: Anita Berber - Reconstructions / Lecture-Performance by MS Schittmacher