naked girls. These were much like the productions of the Moulin Rouge in Paris, France, during this time. Anita Berber was a famous, even infamous, cabaret dancer during this time. She was known to have danced naked on top of her customers' tables, often while urinating on them and the table and/or hitting them with champagne bottles. Prominent figures Marlene Dietrich was a German-American actress and singer. Thomas Mann (6 June 1875 – 12 August 1955) was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate. He became famous during this time for writing the novel The Magic Mountain (Der Zauberberg). Fritz Lang was the director of Metropolis, a 1927 German expressionist epic science-fiction drama film. This famous film is iconic for its advanced special effects and depiction of technological and scientific themes. Anita Berber (10 June 1899 – 10 November 1928) was a German dancer, actress, and writer who was the subject of an Otto Dix painting. She lived during the Weimar period. Otto Dix (2 December 1891 – 25 July 1969) was a German painter and printmaker noted for his harshly realistic depictions of Weimar society and the brutality of war. Along with George Grosz, he is widely considered one of the most important artists of the New Objectivity (Neue Sachlichkeit) trend. See also 1920s Berlin Weimar culture Roaring Twenties, the equivalent in North America European interwar economy References External links Fashion of the Golden Twenties (1920–1923) http://www.cabaret-berlin.com/?p=264' https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052970203471004577141353667947254 https://courses.cit.cornell.edu/his452/Alcohol/germancabaret.html#an4 https://web.archive.org/web/20161021094808/http://www.planet-schule.de/wissenspool/20er-jahre/inhalt/hintergrund.html 1920s in Europe Late modern Europe Roaring Twenties