Berlin

"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.