Modern flapper

German literature. Arts. Architecture. Me.

[lady-lenore]

After several months of happiness in real life, I'm back here :(:

[lady-lenore]

Your song is the love that did not occur,

and the sky that we dreamed once,

and the brotherly friend who sank

working hard in the storm of a love affair.

And those tremendous desires to cry

that sometimes they flood us without reason,

and the drink of liquor that forces us to remember

if the soul is off-side,

hey, bandoneón.

[Spanish]

Tu canto es el amor que no se dio

Y el cielo que soñamos una vez,

Y el fraternal amigo que se hundio

Cinchando en la tormenta de un querer.

Y esas ganas tremendas de llorar

Que a veces nos inundan sin razon,

Y el trago de licor que obliga a recordar

Si el alma esta en 'orsai', che bandoneón.

("Che bandoneón", Homero Manzi)

[expressionism-art]

Zwei Mädchen, 1920, Otto Mueller

Medium: tempera

[lady-lenore]

I'm gonna rouge my knees

And roll my stockings down

And all that jazz...

[lady-lenore]

"Nach Venedig!« wiederholte er Aschenbachs Ansuchen, indem er den Arm reckte und die Feder in den breiigen Restinhalt eines schräggeneigten Tintenfasses stieß."

[lady-lenore]

[lady-lenore]

El humo

La casita bajo los árboles junto al río.

Del techo sale humo.

Si no estuviera

Qué desoladores serían entonces

Casa, árboles y mar.

[lady-lenore]

Hello stranger

[lady-lenore]

Hotel Moskva, Belgrade

[berlinbabylon]

[felixdeon]

Here are some images of the queer scene in 1920's Berlin.

After World War I, which ended in 1918, an age of great liberation flourished in all Europe. In Germany, particularly in Berlin, the decade of 1920 saw the birth of an open, visible and proud queer culture.

The queer community was present in clubs, balls, parties, public spaces and events in the city, and although the moral of the time did not approve of them, their explosion in neighborhoods with great cultural movement visibilized their lifestyle. Magazines in German with articles about sex and gender were printed and distributed in all Berlin.

After the crash of 1929, and with Adolf Hitler's access to power, the German nightlife, its celebration of diversity and love and all the fun of queer clubs were over, but the Golden Age would never be forgotten in Berlin as the times got harder and harder

[lady-lenore]

[lady-lenore]

I'll fight with all my heart

To be myself at any cost

Don't wanna be

The wannabe

You want me to

Aspire to be

Who do you think you are, baby?

Should I be the way you want?

Go on even if you tell me

Everyday I'm not enough

[franzkavkas]

You had hardly described our meeting in Berlin when I was already dreaming of it…we weren’t walking arm in arm, admittedly, but we were closer to each other than when people are arm in arm. Oh God, it’s difficult to describe on paper my invention for not walking arm in arm, not being conspicuous, but still walking very close to you…

But wait, I’ll draw it. Walking arm in arm is like this. But we were walking like this.

Franz Kafka, Letter to Felice Bauer, February 11th/12th, 1913

[lady-lenore]

Palau Güell (Antoni Gaudí)

[lady-lenore]

Ich schlafe im Bett dem Pompadour Ich habe Lulus rotes Haar Ich habe Salomes Figur Ich hab’ die Gier der Pothiphar

[elizabethanism]

‘Gradually too,Trotta’s disappointment was replaced by a sweet melancholy. He made a pact with his sadness. (…) The unending pain of the world fitted itself to Trotta’s hurt.’ -

Joseph Roth, Radetzky March, 1932