Throwback Thursday and Anita Berber
Born In Leipzig Germany on June 10,
1899, Anita Berber was raised mostly by her grandmother following her parents
divorce. At age sixteen she made her debut as a cabaret dancer. By 1918 she
began working in movies and also began dancing nude.
She quickly became famous and in 1925
the famous German painter Otto Dix did her portrait. It was titled “The Dancer
Anita Berber” and portrayed her in red with her characteristic high cheek bones
and heavy make-up. https://www.neuegalerie.org/content/portrait-dancer-anita-berber.
She appeared in many films including The Story of Dida Ibsen (1918); Circus People (1922) and A Waltz by Strauss (1925). A 1987 film called Anita – Tanze des Laster ("Anita - Dances of Vice") focuses on Anita Berber's life.
Her decadent performances challenged
social taboos and she was a frequent topic of public gossip. Sadly, she was
addicted to drugs and alcohol but in 1928 she abruptly gave up alcohol – but apparently
not the narcotics.
She died of advanced tuberculosis on November
10, 1928. She is buried in a pauper’s grave in Neukolin.
From the Big
Blue Book of Ballet Secrets
Dance History Secret #233:
“Anita Berber was a notorious dancer in Germany.”
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“We revel
in the laxness of the path we take.”
― Charles Baudelaire
― Charles Baudelaire
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