Goodbye to Berlin

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Goodbye to Berlin is a semi-autobiographical novel by Christopher Isherwood that portrays the lives of diverse characters in pre-World War II Berlin and later inspired the musical Cabaret.

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Goodbye to Berlin canonical 7
The Berlin Stories 4

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instanceOf novel
semi-autobiographical novel
author Christopher Isherwood
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
depicts Jewish community in Berlin
Weimar Republic society
bohemian subculture
working-class life in Berlin
featuresCharacter Fräulein Schroeder
linked to: Fraulein Schneider

Herr Landauer
Natalia Landauer
Otto Nowak
Sally Bowles
genre modernist literature
semi-autobiographical fiction
hasAdaptation Cabaret (1972 film)
Cabaret (musical)
I Am a Camera (1955 film)
linked to: I Am a Camera

I Am a Camera (play)
linked to: I Am a Camera
hasCharacterOriginFor Sally Bowles (Cabaret character)
linked to: Sally Bowles
hasStructure sequence of interlinked sketches
hasSubject antisemitism in Germany
economic hardship in interwar period
political extremism
inspiredWork Cabaret (1972 film)
Cabaret (musical)
I Am a Camera
literaryMovement modernism
mainTheme life in Weimar Berlin
political instability
rise of Nazism
sexuality
social change
mediaType print
narrativeForm linked stories
narrativePerspective first-person
notableFor influence on stage and film musical Cabaret
portrayal of pre-Nazi Berlin nightlife
originalLanguage English
partOf The Berlin Stories
linked to: Goodbye to Berlin
placeOfPublication London
linked to: London, England
protagonist Christopher Isherwood (fictionalized narrator)
publicationYear 1939
publisher Hogarth Press
settingLocation Berlin
settingTimePeriod early 1930s
pre-World War II

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Christopher Isherwood notableWork Goodbye to Berlin
Christopher Isherwood notableWork The Berlin Stories
linked to: Goodbye to Berlin
Christopher Isherwood basedOn The Berlin Stories
linked to: Goodbye to Berlin
Cabaret (stage production) basedOn Goodbye to Berlin
Goodbye to Berlin partOf The Berlin Stories
linked to: Goodbye to Berlin
Mr Norris Changes Trains followedBy Goodbye to Berlin
Christopher and His Kind relatedWork Goodbye to Berlin
Down There on a Visit relatedWork Goodbye to Berlin
I Am a Camera basedOn The Berlin Stories
linked to: Goodbye to Berlin
I Am a Camera basedOn Goodbye to Berlin
John Van Druten adaptedFrom Goodbye to Berlin