Berlin artists on Hiddensee (1912-1935)
Berlin artists on Hiddensee (1912-1935)
Ute Fritsch, long-time island guide, tracker and author, presents the turbulent lives, loves and work of the Berlin bohemians on Hiddensee beach:
For the young regular Billy Wilder, Hiddensee was a "fashionable bathing island" at the end of the 1920s and silent film star Asta Nielsen gathered an illustrious circle of artists around her in her summer house "Karusel". Klaus Mann fled to the island as early as 1924. What did Mascha Kaleko and Joachim Ringelnatz write here, and what world literature did Thomas Mann and Hans Fallada create on the island? How did the painter George Grosz or the philosopher Ludwig Marcuse amuse themselves? Why did Else Lasker-Schüler write sad love poems to Gottfried Benn in August 1913 and why did Friedrich Hollaender compose the revue "Höchste Eisenbahn", a warning against the train to Nazi Germany, in Kloster in July 1932?
