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Anna-Sophia Mäder
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Freedom, Intoxication and Black Cats

Andreas Schwab

A History of Bohemian Life

Else Lasker-Schüler, Richard Dehmel, Edvard Munch, Oda Krogh, Henri Murger, Franziska zu Reventlow, August Strindberg, Frank Wedekind – they all belonged to the bohemian world, that artistic subculture which developed in the last third of the 19th century in Paris, Vienna, Munich and Berlin, and which – due to its permissive way of life, rebellious spirit and not least its precarious financial circumstances – clashed with bourgeois society. This book tells its story

Bohemian life revolutionised ideas about what constituted a good life – less in texts and manifestoes than in day-to-day life with all its ambivalences. Andreas Schwab paints a portrait not only of the writers and artists, the men and women of the bohemian world who started this lifestyle revolution, but also of the places where they met: the ‘Schwarze Ferkel’ pub in Berlin, the ‘Chat Noir’ in Paris’s Montmartre, the ‘Café Stefanie’ and the cabaret ‘Die Elf Scharfrichter’ in Munich. He produces a richly atmospheric description of bohemian life, illustrating the fascination people felt and still feel for it to this day.

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Published 2024-02-15T10:08:35.275Z by C.H.Beck , ISBN: 9783406814358

ISBN: 9783406814358