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The book, The Hot Girls of Weimar Berlin, investigates four aspects of European sexuality before Nazism took hold and devastated a remarkably open-minded culture that occurred four decades prior to America's sexual revolution.
Author Barbara Ulrich opens her exploration of the period with "Awake In a Dream," in which pagan holidays are celebrated with fashionable masquerades. The "Modern Gift" lays out Berlin's drug culture, and the exotic debauch specific to each chemical. "Kind Mistress" looks into kinky Weimar-period scholarship and the fetishism of powerful women and masochistic men. The various enclaves of Berlin's Sapphic culture are revealed in "The Scorpion's Kiss," which excerpts and illustrates Anna Elisabet Weirauch's lesbian novel, The Scorpion. The Hot Girls of Weimar Berlin culminates with an illustration of the final party before the Nazis came to power and burned the kind of books listed in Ulrich's bibliography.
Shot through with excerpts of period diaries, memoirs, and song lyrics, and illustrated with over 120 paintings, illustrations and photographs, The Hot Girls of Weimar Berlin paints an unforgettable picture of a period known to modern audiences through the character of Sally Bowles and the play and movie, Cabaret. Jerry Stahl, author of Permanent Midnight, Plainclothes Naked, and Perv: A Love Story, provides the book's introduction.
A bi-coastal resident of Manhattan and Berkeley, and documentary filmmaker whose satirical movies include Nuns in Love and I Was Bigfoot's Love Slave, this is Barbara Ulrich's first book.
Softcover, 110 pages
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