Politics Literature Arts Ideas

Noah Isenberg

Noah Isenberg is the author, most recently, of We’ll Always Have Casablanca: The Life, Legend, and Afterlife of Hollywood’s Most Beloved Movie(2017) and the editor of Weimar Cinema: An Essential Guide to Classic Films of the Era (2008). He also directs the Screen Studies program at the New School. (April 2018)

Follow:

Liv Lisa Fries as Charlotte Ritter in Babylon Berlin, 2017

Voluptuous Panic

Not since Rainer Werner Fassbinder adapted Alfred Döblin’s acclaimed 1929 novel Berlin Alexanderplatz in 1980 has there been as much talk about a German television series set in the Weimar era as there has been this year about Babylon Berlin.

April 28, 2018

Lewis Stone as Dr. Otternschlag in Edmund Goulding's Grand Hotel, 1932

Eavesdropping on Weimar

Perhaps one reason for the instant success of the novel Grand Hotel was the way in which it spoke to the anxieties of Weimar society—and of the world at large—about modern life.

May 9, 2016

Subscribe and save 50%!

Get immediate access to the current issue and over 20,000 articles from the archives, plus the NYR App.

Already a subscriber? Sign in