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Anita Berber
1899 - 1928
Birth place
Leipzig, Germany
Death place
Berlin, Germany
Born in Leipzig to divorced bohemian parents (a cabarét artist and a violinist) by the time she was 16 Berber had moved to Berlin and made her debut as a cabaret dancer. She began dancing nude in 1919. Scandalous, androgynous, bisexual and infamous, she quickly made a name for herself. Appearing in Berlin's hotel lobbies, nightclubs and casinos naked apart from an elegant sable wrap, with a pet monkey and a silver brooch packed with cocaine. Died of Tuberculosis in Kreuzberg, buried in Neükolln.
Buried by stargirl on November 10, 2010
