Anita Berber as Binga van der Wal

Atelier Binder :: German actress and dancer Anita Berber as "Binga van der Wal". Published in Die Dame 09/1917. | src and hi-res Getty Images
Atelier Binder :: German actress and dancer Anita Berber as “Binga van der Wal”. Published in Die Dame 09-1917. | src and hi-res Getty Images
Atelier Binder :: German actress and dancer Anita Berber as "Binga van der Wal". Published in Die Dame 09/1917. | src and hi-res Getty Images
Atelier Binder :: German actress and dancer Anita Berber as “Binga van der Wal”. Published in Die Dame 09/1917. | src and hi-res Getty Images

“Göttin der Nacht”: So hat ihr Biograf, der Berliner Kunsthistoriker Lothar Fischer, die Tänzerin getauft. Hier ist Anita Berber 1917 als “Binga van der Wal” zu sehen. Sie trat zunächst mit der Tanztruppe ihrer Lehrerin Rita Sacchetto auf. Noch während des Ersten Weltkriegs löste sie sich von Sacchetto, um als Solotänzerin zu reüssieren.

“Goddess of the Night”: This is how her biographer, the Berlin art historian Lothar Fischer, baptized the dancer. Here Anita Berber can be seen as “Binga van der Wal” in 1917. She first performed with the dance troupe of her teacher Rita Sacchetto. During the First World War she left Sacchetto’s troupe in order to succeed as a solo dancer.

quoted from Der Spiegel: Anita Berber – die Hohepriesterin des Lasters

Dora Zuntz als Nofretete, 1927

Atelier Binder :: Bälle Festlichkeiten. Studentin Dora Zuntz als Nofretete auf dem Berliner Kunstgewerbeball ‘Bunte Laterne’, 1927. | Student Dora Zuntz as Nefertiti at the Berlin Arts and Crafts Ball ‘Bunte Laterne’, 1927 | src and hi-res Getty Images

Marianne Winkelstern, 1929

Atelier Binder :: Actress and Dancer Marianne Winkelstern in a celebration of Madame Pompadour at “Grosses Schauspielhaus”, 1929. | src and hi-res Getty Images

Anita Berber as Bingha

Alexander Binder :: Anita Berber as Bingha, costume designed by Walter Schnackenberg, 1922. Schnackenberg was known as the “Toulouse-Lautrec of Germany”. | src 50 watts 

Actress and dancer Anita Berber (1899 – 1928), 1910′s-1920′s. The daughter of a cabaret singer and a violinist, Anita Berber also follows an artistic path and studies theatre and dance from a young age. Appearing on several cabaret stages. She proposes audacious and provocative performances that portray violence, life and passion while she becomes the first dancer to execute her act entirely naked. / src: The Red List

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