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Book SynopsisIllustrated by Lotte Goslar herself, this extraordinary book provides, through her vivid sketch-like texts, a moving and humorous account of her life during a traumatic period in world history. Her acute observations of daily human foibles and vanities are interspersed with her interactions with major figures (Palucca, Voskovec and Werich, Brecht, Charles Laughton and Elsa Lanchester, Hans Sahl, and Marilyn Monroe), revealing to the reader the world of a great artist in movement and mime.
What's So Funny? includes texts by Horst Koegler, Voskovec and Werich, Joel Schechter, and Bertolt Brecht.
Trade Review"Her name is Goslar, but she was born in Dresden. She wanted to become a dancer and studied with Palucca, but she became a mime and a clown and created for herself her own form that she called 'Pantomime Circus'. Clive Barnes, until recently the all-powerful critic of The New York Times, took the easy way out and called her simply 'divine'." -- Horst Koegler
Table of ContentsChapter 1 How Sweet It Is; Chapter 2 First Memories; Chapter 3 Palucca; Chapter 4 So Much Luck (I); Chapter 5 The Disgruntled; Chapter 6 Up and Out; Chapter 7 The Peppermill Theater; Chapter 8 The Liberated Theater; Chapter 9 The Dancing Clown, Voskovec, Werich; Chapter 10 The Fortune Teller; Chapter 11 Off to America; Chapter 12 A Propos Aging; Chapter 13 So Much Luck (II); Chapter 14 On Tour: Road Signs; Chapter 15 To The Rescue; Chapter 16 A New World; Chapter 17 The Turnabout Theater; Chapter 18 My Film Career; Chapter 19 Cats I’ve Met; Chapter 20 The Dancing Hausfrau; Chapter 21 Lotte Goslar’s Circus Scene, Joel Schechter; Chapter 22 TV; Chapter 23 Magic; Chapter 24 Not So Magic; Chapter 25 A New Experience; Chapter 26 Marilyn; Chapter 27 A Large Landscape; Chapter 28 What’s So Funny?;
