Spender, Stephen (30 October 1977). "Life Wasn't a Cabaret". The New York Times. New York City. p.198 . Retrieved 11 February 2022. 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. The most important difference, though, between Mr Norris Changes Trains and Goodbye To Berlin is that this book is a lot less funny than its predecessor. In fact it opens on a note of gloom and melancholy which I found it hard to shake off thereafter. Thus Fraulein S loves telling Herr Issyvoo about all his predecessors in the rented rooms, about their foibles and habits. This makes the narrator see himself as just another in an endless procession of meaningless lives. Jean Ross later claimed the political indifference of the Sally Bowles character more closely resembled Isherwood and his hedonistic friends, [9] many of whom "fluttered around town exclaiming how sexy the storm troopers looked in their uniforms." [10]

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Firchow, Peter Edgerly (2008). Strange Meetings: Anglo-German Literary Encounters from 1910 to 1960. Washington, D. C.: Catholic University of America Press. p.120. ISBN 978-0-8132-1533-4– via Google Books.Goodbye to Berlin is a 1939 novel by Anglo-American writer Christopher Isherwood set during the waning days of the Weimar Republic. The novel recounts Isherwood's 1929–1932 sojourn as a pleasure-seeking British expatriate on the eve of Adolf Hitler's ascension as Chancellor of Germany and consists of a "series of sketches of disintegrating Berlin, its slums and nightclubs and comfortable villas, its odd maladapted types and its complacent burghers." [1] The novel's plot recounts factual events in Isherwood's life, and the novel's characters were based upon actual persons. [2] The insouciant flapper Sally Bowles was based on teenage cabaret singer Jean Ross who became Isherwood's intimate friend during his sojourn.

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Firchow, Peter Edgerly (2008). Strange Meetings: Anglo-German Literary Encounters from 1910 to 1960. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press. p.120. ISBN 978-0-8132-1533-4– via Google Books. Gray, Margaret (20 July 2016). "50 years of 'Cabaret': How the 1966 musical keeps sharpening its edges for modern times". Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles, California . Retrieved 11 February 2022.

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Garebian, Keith (2011). The Making of Cabaret. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-973250-0– via Google Books. Peter is the fourth child of an immensely rich Englishman with a big house in Mayfair and a country seat. His sisters are marrying aristocracy while his brother is a successful explorer. Peter is the neurotic failure of the family, who went to Oxford but dropped out, had several nervous breakdowns. He’s been through several expensive psychoanalysts in England and then decided to try one in Berlin, which brings him here. The events depicted in The Berlin Stories are derived from Isherwood's colorful escapades in the Weimar Republic. [7] [8] In 1929, Isherwood moved to Weimar Berlin during the twilight of the Golden Twenties. At the time, Isherwood was an apprentice novelist who was politically indifferent [a] about the rise of fascism in Germany. [11] [12] He had relocated to Berlin to pursue a hedonistic life as an openly gay man and to enjoy the city's orgiastic Jazz Age cabarets. [13] [14] He socialized with a blithe coterie of gay writers that included Stephen Spender, Paul Bowles, [b] and W.H. Auden. [17] Liza Minnelli". Inside the Actors Studio. Season 12. Episode 6. Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts. 5 February 2006. Bravo.

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MacLean, Roy (2014). Berlin: Portrait of a City Through the Centuries. St. Martin's Press. p.181. ISBN 978-1-250-05186-8– via Google Books. Liza Minnelli as Sally Bowles (left) in the 1972 film. Louise Brooks (right) served as the visual model for the 1972 film's depiction of Sally Bowles. [54] Stansky, Peter (28 November 1976). "Christopher and His Kind". The New York Times. New York City. p.260 . Retrieved 11 February 2022. Izzo, David Garrett (2005). Christopher Isherwood Encyclopedia. London: McFarland & Company. ISBN 0-7864-1519-3 . Retrieved 4 March 2021– via Google Books.

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Spender, Stephen (30 October 1977). "Life Wasn't a Cabaret". The New York Times. New York City. p.198 . Retrieved 4 March 2021. Due to her unyielding dislike of fascism, Ross was incensed that Isherwood had depicted her as thoughtlessly allied in her beliefs "with the attitudes which led to Dachau and Auschwitz". [49] In the early 21st century, some writers have argued the antisemitic remarks in "Sally Bowles" are a reflection of Isherwood's own much-documented racial prejudices. [e] [53] In Peter Parker's 2004 biography, he writes that Isherwood was "fairly anti-Semitic to a degree that required some emendations of the Berlin novels when they were republished after the war". [53] Spender, Stephen (28 November 1993). "Come to the Cabaret". The Observer (Sundayed.). London, United Kingdom. p.74. They meet Clive, a big, fabulously rich American, who drinks half a bottle of scotch before breakfast and is full of grand plans. (This event is tied to a specific date when they watch the big state funeral of Weimar politician Hermann Müller, which took place in March 1931.)

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While Ross recovered from the abortion procedure, the political situation rapidly deteriorated in Germany. [40] As Berlin's daily scenes featured "poverty, unemployment, political demonstrations and street fighting between the forces of the extreme left and the extreme right," [3] Isherwood, Spender, and other British nationals soon realised that they must leave the country. [4] "There was a sensation of doom to be felt in the Berlin streets," Spender recalled. [40] She had a surprisingly deep, husky voice. She sang badly, [c] without any expression, her hands hanging down at her sides—yet her performance was, in its own way, effective because of her startling appearance and her air of not caring a curse of what people thought of her." [29] 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.First published in 1934, Goodbye to Berlin has been popularized on stage and screen by Julie Harris in I Am a Camera and Liza Minelli in Cabaret. Isherwood magnificently captures 1931 Berlin: charming, with its avenues and cafés; marvelously grotesque, with its nightlife and dreamers; dangerous, with its vice and intrigue; powerful and seedy, with its mobs and millionaires — this was the period when Hitler was beginning his move to power. Goodbye to Berlin is inhabited by a wealth of characters: the unforgettable and “divinely decadent”Sally Bowles; plump Frau¨lein Schroeder, who considers reducing her Bu¨steto relieve her heart palpitations; Peter and Otto, a gay couple struggling to come to terms with their relationship; and the distinguished and doomed Jewish family, the Landauers. Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood – eBook Details Fryer, Jonathan (1993). Eye of the Camera. London: Allison & Busby. p.83. ISBN 978-0-85031-938-5– via Google Books. Firchow, Peter Edgerly (2008). Strange Meetings: Anglo-German Literary Encounters from 1910 to 1960. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press. ISBN 978-0-8132-1533-4– via Google Books. The Berlin Stories is a 1945 omnibus by Anglo-American writer Christopher Isherwood and consisting of the novels Mr Norris Changes Trains (1935) and Goodbye to Berlin (1939). The two novels are set in Jazz Age Berlin between 1930 and 1933 on the cusp of Adolf Hitler's ascent to power. Berlin is portrayed by Isherwood during this chaotic interwar period as a carnival of debauchery and despair inhabited by desperate people who are unaware of the national catastrophe that awaits them.