![]() ![]() Finally, she disappears without a trace, much to the narrator’s chagrin.ĭuring his holiday on Rügen Island, Isherwood encounters Peter, a fellow countryman with slight neuroses and Otto Nowak, a factory workers’ son in his late teens. Her efforts to become a celebrity or, as a plan B, marry a rich man put herself and Isherwood through numerous complications. ![]() In a cabaret theater, Isherwood meets the 19-year-old Sally Bowles, fellow countrywoman and untalented, yet ambitious singer. He makes a living by teaching English to rich children, such as the obnoxiously sympathetic Hippi Bernstein. Isherwood, who is called “Herr Issyvoo” by his German acquaintances, lodges with a ragtag group of Berlin bohemians. ![]() As an observant first-person narrator, he paints a picture of the different people he encounters. ![]() British author Christopher Isherwood spent some years in Berlin and summarized his experience in the novel “Goodbye to Berlin” published in 1939. The Weimar Republic of the early 1930s is remembered as a time of flappers, cabaret and decadence, but also as one of simmering political unrest and street brawls. „Goodbye to Berlin, London“ von Christopher Isherwood (englisch) rezensiert von Lucia Höfer, 11. ![]()
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