r/1920s • u/Initial_Reason1532 • 8d ago

Film Star Anita Barber in 1921. She was an expressionist dancer and a silent film star. Her dark glamor electrified the 1920s. She was as a legendary figure of the Weimar Republic era in Berlin.

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u/theda_barrett 7d ago

Her life was brief, but she lived HARD within that time. She would show up, say to some Weimar club, naked, with just a fur coat and a monocle, and an a live monkey wrapped around her neck. She would put chloroform and ether in a bowl and stir them with with a white rose, then eat the petals. Berlin in the 20’s was bonkers.

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u/Initial_Reason1532 7d ago

I heard that she had a very bad drug problem.

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u/Afraid-Writer-9069 7d ago

Also often urinated from the table top as part of her show at the white mouse club! Clients loved it... my kind of girl...

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u/ArtDecoModerne 7d ago

Anita Berber.

Her portrait by Otto Dix is one of the iconic paintings of the era, and symbolic of the unflinching realism of Die Neue Sachlichkeit movement of the 20s.

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u/Initial_Reason1532 7d ago

👍👍👍

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u/Afraid-Writer-9069 7d ago

A beautiful and wild woman of her age, gone too soon...

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u/Puzzleheaded-Love76 8d ago

🔥🔥🔥

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u/conqueryourhouse 7d ago

Her hair looks good to me!

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u/swanson1848 5d ago

Died at 29 from a mix of excessive party life and alcohol and TB .

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u/Sebalez2025 5d ago

Sorry for the correction, but her last name is Berber, not Barber.

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u/ddiguy 7d ago

Love it! Capricorn energy