I’ve been making love to a dirty old Jew producer. I’m hoping he’ll give me a contract–but no go, so far….’ In reflecting on the history of queer migration to Weimar Berlin, with their dual realities of liberation and exploitation, we can begin to dissect and disturb the assumptions of modernity that frame sexual minority asylum today. This is to borrow from Isherwood’s own restless critique of modernity in his own time. For displaced sexual minority refugees, this is to both interrogate the political co-option of their suffering by narratives of liberal progress, but also to challenge the politics and histories that makes their persecution possible.

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In his diary from October 1958, Isherwood records that a composer named Don Parks had expressed interest in writing a musical based on Sally but that Isherwood planned to deny him permission. [52] When I Am a Camera was finally adapted into the musical Cabaret in 1966, Jill Haworth originated the role of Sally. As the run continued, Penny Fuller, Anita Gillette and Melissa Hart also played the part. Cabaret was revived on Broadway in 1987 with Alyson Reed playing Sally. Ross] never liked Goodbye to Berlin, nor felt any sense of identity with the character of Sally Bowles, which in many respects she thought more closely modeled on one of Isherwood's male friends.... She never cared enough, however, to be moved to any public rebuttal. She did from time to time settle down conscientiously to write a letter, intending to explain to Isherwood the ways in which she thought he had misunderstood her; but it seldom progressed beyond 'Dear Christopher.'" In his memoirs, Isherwood recounts how "when Julie Harris was rehearsing for the part of Sally in the American production of I Am a Camera, [director] John van Druten and Christopher discussed with her the possibility that nearly all of Sally's sex life is imaginary; and they agreed that the part should be played so that the audience wouldn't be able to make up its mind, either." [47] Isherwood, in particular, was adamant that Sally not be portrayed as "a tart"—an avaricious prostitute. [48] In a letter to John Van Druten, Isherwood explained that Sally "is a little girl who has listened to what the grown-ups had said about tarts, and who was trying to copy those things." [48] Isherwood 1976, p.150: "Erwin [Hansen] returned to Germany several years later. Someone told me that he was arrested by the Nazis and died in a concentration camp."Van Druten, John (1983). I Am a Camera: A Play in Three Acts. United Kingdom: Dramatists Play Service. ISBN 978-0-8222-0545-6– via Internet Archive. Bernhard rings up Christopher and asks if he wants to come to a secret destination. He calls round in his chauffeur-driven car and they drive along a stretch of motorway out to the Wannsee to an astonishingly luxurious built right by the shore, built by Bernhard’s father in 1904. His mother was English, Jewish, she became more interested in Jewish culture and studied Hebrew even as her cancer got worse until the pain was so severe she killed herself. All this and more Bernhard tells him over dinner and as they walk out to the shore in the darkness. The conversation gets bad-tempered when Bernhard explains he is experimenting with himself, he hasn’t had a private conversation with anyone about anything for ten years, he wanted to try it out. Christopher doesn’t enjoy being a guinea pig. Moss, Howard (3 June 1979). "Christopher Isherwood: Man and Work". The New York Times. New York City . Retrieved 18 June 2018.

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Goodbye To Berlin immediately signals its differences from Mr Norris Changes Trains. The main one is that the first-person narrator is not named William Bradshaw but Christopher Isherwood. Partly this is because the ‘novel’ seems much closer to being an actual diary. It gives rise to his landlady, Fraulein Schroeder’s, famous mispronunciation of his name, Herr Issyvoo.

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Izzo, David Garrett (2005). Christopher Isherwood Encyclopedia. London: McFarland & Company. ISBN 0-7864-1519-3 . Retrieved 4 March 2021– via Google Books. After getting their hopes up that he could take them on a round the world fantasmagoria of a travel, Clive does a bunk, Still he leaves some money and he bought Chris some nice shirts.

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Later in 1936, Isherwood submitted the piece to Lehmann for publication in his literary magazine, New Writing. [37] Lehmann liked the piece but felt that it was too lengthy for his magazine. [37] He also was concerned about the inclusion in the manuscript of Sally's abortion, fearing both that his printers might refuse to typeset it and that Jean Ross might file a libel action. [38] In a January 1937 letter, Isherwood expressed his conviction that, without the abortion incident, Sally would be reduced to a "little capricious bitch" and that the omission would leave the novella without a climax. [38] Allen 2004: "The real Isherwood... [was] the least political of the so-called Auden group, [and] Isherwood was always guided by his personal motivations rather than by abstract ideas." Hensher, Philip (15 May 2005). "Christopher and His Kind". The Spectator. London . Retrieved 18 November 2018. a b Many Berlin cabarets located along the Kurfürstendamm avenue, an entertainment-vice district, had been marked for future destruction by Joseph Goebbels as early as 1928. [42]Doyle, Rachel (12 April 2013). "Looking for Christopher Isherwood's Berlin". The New York Times. New York City. p.TR10 . Retrieved 11 February 2022. Van Druten, John (1983). I Am a Camera: A Play in Three Acts. United Kingdom: Dramatists Play Service– via Internet Archive.

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During this time, Christopher meets teenage Natalie Landauer whose wealthy Jewish family owns a department store. After the Nazis smash the windows of several Jewish shops, Christopher learns that Natalie's cousin Bernhard is dead, likely murdered by the Nazis. Ultimately, Christopher is forced to leave Germany as the Nazis continue their ascent to power, and he fears that many of his beloved Berlin acquaintances are now dead.A few days later Sally pops round to tell him the end of the story. She had to identify him and he was terribly upset, said: ‘I thought you were my friend’. Amazingly, he turned out to be just 16 years old, so would have had to be tried in Juvenile Court but instead the doctors certified him and he was sent to a home.