Europe on 5 Wrong Turns a Day: One Man, Eight Countries, One Vintage Travel Guide by Mack Douglas S

Author:Mack, Douglas S. [Mack, Douglas S.]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9781101561423
Publisher: Penguin Group US
Published: 2012-04-03T04:00:00+00:00

When I was about eight or ten—right around the time the Eastern Bloc was crumbling and all those adults were telling me to remember this history in the making—my worldly mother took me to see the musical Cabaret. It is set in, well, a cabaret called the Kit Kat Klub in 1930s Berlin, against the backdrop of the Nazis’ rise to power. Mom had seen it years before but had forgotten this key detail: it is unquestionably, empirically, emphatically risqué and dark. It was my first introduction to leather. And pasties. And, wow, lack thereof. As Mom would later say, “No wonder there were no other kids there.” It left more of an impression on me than those grainy images of the wall did, I’ll tell you that.

Frommer’s 1963 descriptions of Berlin’s bars and clubs make it sound like the musical got it right: the nightlife here, fueled by the city’s fatalistic energy, is “highly esoteric and intense” and often “erotic and exotic.” Consider:

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