It was the age of drag balls, Metropolis, and Josephine Baker. Of
scientific breakthroughs, literary verve, and the political chaos
of the Weimar Republic. After the best-selling Hollywood in the 30s
and Jazz: New York in the Roaring Twenties, illustrator Robert
Nippoldt teams up with author Boris Pofalla to evoke the
fast-moving, freewheeling metropolis that was Berlin in the 1920s.
Like a cinematographic city tour through time, Berlin of the
Roaring Twenties takes in the urban scale and the intricate details
of this transformative decade, from sweeping street panoramas,
bejeweled with new electric lights, to the foxtrot and tango steps
tapped out on dance floors all over town. With characteristic
graphic mastery of light, shadow, and expression, 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
extraordinary protagonists that made up its hotbed scene of art,
science, and ideas. With an avid eye on the eccentrics and outlaws
who set the tone in this heady age as much as the established
"greats," Nippoldt includes rich profiles not only of the likes of
Lotte Reiniger, Christopher Isherwood, Albert Einstein, Kurt Weill,
Marlene Dietrich, and George Grosz, but also of "the woman with ten
brains" Thea Alba, "Einstein of Sex" Magnus Hirschfeld, and the
city's notorious criminal Adolf Leib. The book also showcases 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 government cabinet. But beyond the people and the
places, above all the book captures the incomparable and ineffable
spirit of time and place, of an epoch suspended between two world
wars and a country caught between joie-de-vivre daring and the
darkness of encroaching National Socialism. 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 iconic
Marlene Dietrich as she lights up a cigarette in top hat, tuxedo,
and come-to-bed eyes. Awards: German Design Award, 2019, Frankfurt
Best Book Award, 2018, Los Angeles Berliner Type Award, 2018,
Berlin Red Dot Design Award, 2018, Essen ADC Award, 2018, Berlin
Joseph Binder Award, 2018, Vienna ADC Award, 2019, New York German
Design Award, 2019, Frankfurt Indigo Design Award, 2019, Amsterdam
iF Design Award, 2019, Hannover A' Design Award, 2019 Como/Italy
Econ Megaphone Award, Shortlist, 2019, Berlin International Design
Award, 2018, Los Angeles Berlin Type Award, 2018, Berlin Red Dot
Design Award, 2018, Essen Best Book Award, 2018, Los Angeles ADC
Award, 2018, Berlin Joseph Binder Award, 2018, Vienna International
Creative Media Award, 2018, Meerbusch Stiftung Buchkunst,
Shortlist, 2018, Frankfurt
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