#valeska gert

[seventh-victim]

german dancer, Valeska Gert c.1929 (photo: Suse Byk)

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The Enchantment of the Blue Sailors (1975)

[disease]

"VALESKA GERT" MAN RAY | PARIS, 1925 [gelatin silver print, warm-toned | 10 1/2 × 8"]

[gr3ml1ngu7z]

Did a quick drawn of my charters in lackadaisy bc I thought it was funny. All my charters dress in a somwhat punk fashion so I looked at valeska gert alot😭

(Yes I drew this bc I couldn’t get the idea of Vic being a sphynx cat out of my head)

[ulrichgebert]

“Schwierige Soziale Verhältnisse” Teil 2: Wien 1921. Verglichen damit geht es in Nottingham noch recht gesittet zu. Scharenweise werden arme Mädchen sexuell genötigt und dem zweifelhaften Etablissement der Frau Greifer zugeführt, nur weil sie Hunger haben, und der amerikanische Rote-Kreuz-Beobachter öffnet immer die falsche Tür und sieht nur Reichtum und Dekadenz.

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Diary of a Lost Girl (Tagebuch einer Verlorenen) (1929) G.W. Pabst

January 5th 2023

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[abwwia]

Valeska Gert (11 January 1892 – c. 16 March 1978) was a German dancer, pantomime, cabaret artist, actress and pioneering performance artist. Via wikipedia

Valeska Gert, Munich, 1918

Portrait of Valeska Gert

by Lisette Model

[weimarhaus]

Jeanne Mammen, Valeska Gert, 1928, Oil on cardboard

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Valeska Gert, Munich, 1918 | @abwwia

Born Gertrud Valesca Samosch (11 January 1892 – c. 16 March 1978) was a German dancer, pantomime, cabaret artist, actress and pioneering performance artist.

In 1933, Gert's Jewish heritage resulted in her being banned from the German stage. Her exile from Germany sent her to London for some time, where she worked both in theatre and film. In London, she worked on the experimental short film Pett and Pott, which long stood as her last movie.

Beginning of 1939, she emigrated to the United States, where she was cared for by a Jewish refugee community.

By the end of 1941, she had opened the Beggar's Bar in New York City. It was a cabaret/restaurant that was filled with mismatched furniture and lamps.

In 1947 she returned to Europe. After stays in Paris and Zurich, where she ran a cabaret café called Valeska und ihr Küchenpersonal (Valeska and her kitchen staff) for half a year in 1948, she went back to Blockaded Berlin. There she first opened the cabaret Bei Valeska in the former Opernkeller (Opera cellar) at the Theater des Westens in 1949–1950, after that the cabaret Hexenküche (Witch's Kitchen) in 1950. It was active every winter until April 1956. Via wikipedia

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Erwin Blumenfeld Cabaret Performer Valeska Gert, Paris 1938

[the-cricket-chirps]

Man Ray, Valeska Gert, Paris, 1925

Man Ray, Valentine Hugo as Queen of Diamonds, 1935

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Fritz Rasp and Louise Brooks in Diary of a Lost Girl (G.W. Pabst, 1929)

Cast: Louise Brooks, Fritz Rasp, Valeska Gert, Josef Rovensky, Vera Pawlowa, Franziska Kinz, André Roanne, Arnold Korff, Andrews Engelmann, Edith Meinhard, Sybille Schmitz, Kurt Gerron. Screenplay: Rudolf Leonardt, based on a novel by Margarete B��hme. Cinematography: Sepp Allgeier, Fritz Arno Wagner. Art direction: Emil Hasler, Ernö Metzner. Music: Otto Stenzeel. 

Diary of a Lost Girl feels like a falling-off from the standard set by Pabst's first film with Louise Brooks, Pandora's Box (1929), in large part because its source, a 1905 novel by Margarete Böhme, was less distinguished than the one for the previous film: Frank Wedekind's two Lulu plays. Difficulties with censors resulted in some major cuts that sometimes leave the narrative hard to follow. Brooks plays Thymian Henning, the daughter of a well-to-do pharmacist (Josef Rovensky). She is raped and impregnated by her father's assistant, Meinert (Fritz Rasp). When she gives birth, her baby is taken away and she is expelled from her father's home, with the connivance of the housekeeper, Meta (Franziska Kinz), who later marries Thymian's father. She escapes from the oppressive reformatory to which she is sent and winds up in a high-class brothel. When her father dies, she expects an inheritance and marries her friend Count Orloff (André Roanne), who has been disinherited by his own father (Arnold Korff). But when she receives the money she discovers that Meta and the two children she had with Thymian's father have been left penniless. Rather than allow her young half-sister to suffer her own fate, Thymian gives her fortune to Meta. Learning of this, Count Orloff leaps to his death from an open window, but his remorseful father takes Thymian in, allowing her not only to prosper but also to take revenge on the reformatory personnel who had mistreated her. The elder Count Orloff then observes, "A little more love and no one would be lost in this world." That a story so improbable and sententious should work at all is a tribute to Pabst's willingness to take it seriously and to marshal a cast that performs it with apparent conviction. Brooks, however, feels miscast, especially after her triumph in Pandora's Box: It's difficult to accept the broad-shouldered, strong-backed Brooks as a 15-year-old, which she is at the film's beginning, and the performance feels one-note after the impressive range she achieved in the previous film. Diary of a Lost Girl was not a critical or commercial success, owing in part to the arrival of sound, which made it feel obsolete, and it didn't receive an American commercial release.

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The 3 Penny Opera (Die 3 Groschen-Oper) (1931) G.W. Pabst

May 21st 2023

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Monday's image: October 21, 2024

Eszter Salamon in collaboration with Boglárka Börcsök, MONUMENT 0.5: The Valeska Gert Monument, Performance trailer, 2:58, Video documentation: Walter Beckmann, 2019, Tanzforum Berlin, University Library of the Berlin University of Arts, Germany

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