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Chloë Daniel: ‘Love at Last Sight’, 21 May 2020
Love at Last Sight: Dating, Intimacy and Risk in Turn of the Century Berlin
by Tyler Carrington.
Oxford, 248 pp., £22.99, February 2019,978 0 19 091776 0 Show More
by Tyler Carrington.
Oxford, 248 pp., £22.99, February 2019,
“... of the century new sorts of balls – working-class balls, widows’ balls, balls for the deaf, gay and lesbian balls – took place in the dance halls opening up across Berlin. (Clärchens Ballhaus, which features in Alfred Döblin’s Alexanderplatz, closed earlier this year, ostensibly for renovation.) Dance partners were for the evening, not for ... ”