"passing by the pool": Ibid.
"drank their daily coffee": Quoted in Jürgen Schebera, Damals im Romanischen Café (Braunschweig, 1988), 30.
"egg, soft-boiled": Quoted in Von Eckardt and Gilman, Bertolt Brechts Berlin, 41.
"breathtaking shamelessness": Quoted in Klaus Volker, "Bertolt Brecht," in Rühle, ed., LiteraturOrt Berlin, 116.
"grind each other down": Ibid., 117.
"that eyes dream": Quoted in Frederic Ewen, Bertolt Brecht. His Life, His Art, His Times (New York, 1992), 100.
"is not possible": Bertolt Brecht, Gesammelte Werke. 20 Bände. Edited by Elisabeth Hauptmann (Frankfurt, 1967), I, 187.
"a Jesuit seminarian": Zuckmayer, Als wär’s ein Stück von mir, 321.
"any of his lovers": Quoted in John Fuegi, Brecht & Co. (New York, 1994), 92.
"is chopped beef: Volker, "Bertolt Brecht," 119.
"classical theater of Reinhardt": Quoted in Patrick McGilligan, Fritz Lang. The Nature of the Beast (New York, 1997), 51–52.
and fire department: Karl Prümm, "Die Stadt ist der Film," in Peter Alter, ed., Im Banne der Metropolen. Berlin und London in den zwanziger Jahren (Göttingen, 1993), 111–130.
"something quite new": Quoted in Bärbel Schrader and Jürgen Schebera, The "Golden" Twenties (New Haven, 1988), 90.
"sense of horror": Ibid.
"bit a lovely girl": Ehrenburg, Memoirs, 11.
"made on his crew"; "sparrow that’s molting": Quoted in McGilligan, Fritz Lang, 64–65, 85.
"Menschheit bester Teil": Ibid., 91.
"more American than the Americans": Quoted in Thomas Saunders, Hollywood in Berlin. American Cinema and Weimar Germany (Berkeley, 1994), 89.
film Metropolis: McGilligan, Fritz Lang, 104.
"Who is the most Beautiful?": Quoted in Barbara McCloskey, George Grosz and the Communist Party (Princeton, 1997), 55.
"Machine Art of Tatlin": Ibid. 69.
"equipped for maneuvers": Quoted in Whitford, "The Many Faces of George Grosz," 10.
"keep their hands off art": Quoted in McCloskey, George Grosz, 80.
"you are an artist": Quoted in Von Eckardt and Gilman, Bertolt Brechts Berlin, 13.
Chapter 5
"Amerikanismus und Bolshevismus": Quoted in Boberg, Fichter, and Gillen, Die Metropole, 190.
"where it is dark": Quoted in Kaes, Jay, and Dimendberg, eds., Weimar Sourcebook, 419–420.
"rapid pace of work": Quoted in Korff and Rürup, eds., Berlin, Berlin, 461.
"surrounding Einstein’s universe": Quoted in Gill, A Dance between Flames, 177.
a Manhattan transfer: Fritz Neumeyer, "Manhattan Transfer: The New York Myth and Berlin Architecture in the Context of Ludwig Hilberseimer’s High-Rise City," in Kleihues and Rathgeber, eds., Berlin/New York, 318.
"a new nocturnal existence": "Berlin Wirbt!" Metropolenwerbung zwischen Verkehrsreklame und Stadtmarketing 1920–1945. Ausstellung Katalog (Berlin, 1995), 16.
"Jeder einmal in Berlin": Ibid., 13.
refused to attend: Köhler, "Berlin in der Weimarer Republik," 856.
"is concentrated there"; for the painting: Ibid., 852, 855.
"an intellectual core": Christoph Stölzl, ed., Die Zwangziger Jahre in München. Ausstellungskatalog (Munich, 1979), 98.
beer-besotted population: Münchner Neueste Nachrichten, Sept. 21, 1924.
"apostle of Americanism": Quoted in Boberg, Fichter, and Gillen, Die Metropole, 190.
"babylonian mongrelism": Quoted in Martin Geyer, Verkehrte Welt (Göttingen, 1998), 273.
"of their orchestras": Quoted in Josephine Baker and Jo Bouillon, Josephine (New York, 1977), 58.
"number of gifts": Quoted in Jean-Claude Baker and Chris Chase, Josephine (New York, 1993), 124.
"hardly be contained"; "grotesque orgies": Quoted in Jelavich, Berlin Cabaret, 171.
"have come to pass"; "European culture": Ibid., 170.
"Amerikanische Jazz-Tanzkapelle": Quoted in Michael H. Kater, Different Drummers. Jazz in the Culture of Nazi Germany (New York, 1992), 16.
"energy, efficiency, productivity": Quoted in Jelavich, Berlin Cabaret, 180.
"magnificently simple music"; "intellectual ownership": Quoted in Von Eckardt and Gilman, Bertolt Brecht’s Berlin, 88.
"cacophonic garbage"; "spirit of music"; "can relax"; "respectable backdrop": Ibid., 108–111.
"hope for the new Europe": Bruno Walter, Theme and Variations (New York, 1947), 256.
"barbarism closed in": Ibid., 268.
"symposium of the minds"; "unmagical of theaters": Ibid., 268–269.
"everywhere one looks"; "Obermusikjude": Quoted in Peter Heyworth, Otto Klemperer: His Life and Times. 2 vols. (Cambridge, 1993–96), I, 261.
"monument to ruins"; "must be shut": Ibid., 281, 283.
expressing displeasure: Sam H. Shirakawa, The Devil’s Music Master. The Controversial Life and Career of Wilhelm Furtwängler (New York, 1992), 47–48.
with the German government: Secretary of State, Jan. 4, 1927, National Archives, Washington, D.C., 366, Roll 79.
collective shut down; short run: John Willet, Art and Politics in the Weimar Period. The New Sobriety 1917–1933 (New York, 1996), 149–151, 190–191.
Weltbühne: On the journal, see István Deák, Weimar Germany’s Left-Wing Intellectuals. A Political History of the Weltbühne and its Circle (Berkeley, 1968).
rejected as ridiculous: Peter Gay, Weimar Culture (New York, 1968), 74.
Tucholsky: The best biography of Tucholsky is Michael Hepp, Kurt Tucholsky. Biographische Annäherungen (Reinbek bei Hamburg, 1993).
"a German provincial city": Kurt Tucholsky, "Berlin! Berlin!" Gesammelte Werke in 10 Bdnden (Reinbek bei Hamburg, 1975), II, 130.
"conflicts, and shortcomings": Quoted in Matthias Eberle, "Otto Dix und die Neue Sachlichkeit," in C. Joachimides, N. Rosenthal, W. Schmied, eds., Deutsche Kunstim 20. Jahrhundert (Munich, 1986), 447. See also Wieland Schmied, "Post-Expressionism: Notes on Dada, Neue Sachlichkeit, and Bauhaus," in Kleihues and Rathgeber, eds., Berlin/New York, 341–355.
"was very interesting": Quoted in Michael Peppiatt, Francis Bacon. Anatomy of an Enigma (New York, 1996), 28–29.
Döblin: On Döblin, see David B. Dollenmayer, The Berlin Novels of Alfred Döblin (Berkeley, 1988).
"no end to it": Alfred Döblin, Berlin Alexanderplatz. Translated by Franz Jonas (New York, 1993), 5–7.
"better than mine": Ibid., 60–61.
"of imminent collapse": Erich Kästner, Fabian. Die Geschichte eines Moralisten (Munich, 1994), 99.
"plunge into this?": Joseph Goebbels, Die Tagebücher von Joseph Goebbels. Sämtliche Fragmente, ed. Elke Fröhlich, 4 vols. (Munich, 1987), I, 205.
"as a fish needs water": Quoted in Ralf Georg Reuth, Goebbels (New York, 1993), 81.
"off the streets": Quoted in Dieter Schütte, Charlottenburg (Berlin, 1988), 87.
"soil that reckoning": Quoted in Reuth, Goebbels, 91.