Tue 19 Jan 2027Doors 18:15
Christopher Isherwood in Berlin, 1929-1933
The upstairs function room at the Horse & Groom pub (Great Portland Street) · London
Between 1929 and 1933, the gay English writer Christopher Isherwood lived in Berlin, a period in his life that he brilliantly captured in two of his autobiographical books, the novel “Mr Norris Changes Trains” and the short story collection, “Goodbye to Berlin”, which went on to spawn the movies, “Cabaret” and “I Am A Camera.” Through his detached, self-declared photographic narrative style, these offer an intimate, atmospheric portrait of the cabaret culture, eccentric expatriates, and decadent milieu that was about to be swept away by the Nazi takeover. “[Katherine Bucknell’s book is] a first-rate biography of the man, the writer, and the lover.” (David Hockney) Katherine Bucknell edited all four volumes of Christopher Isherwood's diaries (published by Chatto), a volume of letters between Christopher Isherwood and his partner Don Bachardy (“The Animals”), and W.H. Auden's “Juvenilia: Poems 1922-1928”. Co-editor of Auden Studies, a founder of The W. H. Auden Society, and director of the Christopher Isherwood Foundation, she is widely recognised as a leading authority on Isherwood. She is also the author of five novels. She was born in Vietnam, raised...
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