{"product_id":"night-falls-on-the-berlin-of-the-roaring-twenties","title":"Night Falls on the Berlin of the Roaring Twenties","description":"\u003cp\u003eIt was the age of drag balls, \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eMetropolis, \u003c\/span\u003eand Josephine Baker. Of scientific breakthroughs, literary verve, and the political chaos of the Weimar Republic. After the best-selling \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eHollywood in the 30s\u003c\/span\u003e and \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eJazz: New York in the Roaring Twenties\u003c\/span\u003e, \u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eillustrator\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eRobert Nippoldt\u003c\/span\u003e teams up with author Boris Pofalla to evoke the \u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003efast-moving, freewheeling metropolis\u003c\/span\u003e that was \u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eBerlin in the 1920s\u003c\/span\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLike a \u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003ecinematographic city tour through time\u003c\/span\u003e, \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eBerlin of the Roaring Twenties\u003c\/span\u003e takes in the urban scale and the intricate details of this \u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003etransformative decade\u003c\/span\u003e, from sweeping street panoramas, bejeweled with new electric lights, to the foxtrot and tango steps tapped out on dance floors across the town. With characteristic \u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003egraphic mastery of light, shadow, and expression\u003c\/span\u003e, as well as a silver-printing sheen, Nippoldt intersperses portraits with cityscapes, revealing the changing scenery and dynamic hubs of this burgeoning and rapidly industrializing capital, as well as the \u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eextraordinary protagonists\u003c\/span\u003e that made up its \u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003ehotbed scene of art, science, and ideas\u003c\/span\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith an eager eye on the eccentrics and outlaws that made up this heady age as much as the established “greats,” Nippoldt includes rich profiles not only of the likes of \u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eLotte Reiniger, Christopher Isherwood, Albert Einstein, Kurt Weill, Marlene Dietrich\u003c\/span\u003e, and\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e George Grosz\u003c\/span\u003e, but also for “the woman with ten brains” Thea Alba, “Einstein of Sex” Magnus Hirschfeld, and the city’s notorious criminal Adolf Leib. So, too, does the book contain special features for some of the most prominent cultural and political phenomena of the time, whether the most iconic film characters or the frenzied chaos of the Weimar cabinet.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBeyond the people and the places, the book captures above all the \u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eincomparable and ineffable spirit of time and place\u003c\/span\u003e, of an epoch suspended between two world wars and a country \u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003ecaught between joie-de-vivre daring and the darkness of encroaching National Socialism\u003c\/span\u003e. Before the night falls, Nippoldt shows it all to us: the bright lights and the backstage whispers, the looming factories and the theoretical physics, the roar of the sports hall and the hush of the theater, the songs of the Comedian Harmonists, the satire of George Grosz, and the gender-bending icon of Marlene Dietrich, lighting up a cigarette in top hat, tuxedo, and come-to-bed eyes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"CAP BOOKSHOP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52209142497589,"sku":"9783836563208","price":20.0,"currency_code":"KWD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0965\/4157\/3429\/files\/berlin-black.jpg?v=1768477528","url":"https:\/\/capbookshop.com\/products\/night-falls-on-the-berlin-of-the-roaring-twenties","provider":"CAP BOOKSHOP","version":"1.0","type":"link"}