Night falls in Berlin in the Roaring Twenties
Night falls in Berlin in the Roaring Twenties is a book by book artist and illustrator Robert Nippoldt and author Boris Pofalla , which was published by Taschen-Verlag in 2017 . In 2018 it will also be published in English and French. In addition to the pages illustrated by hand throughout, the book includes a CD with original recordings from the 1920s.
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On 224 pages with a total of 765 drawings, the authors present 57 portraits of important contemporaries of Berlin public life in the 1920s. These biographical portraits are embedded in historical and cultural facts from the Weimar period . The book also includes 5 different city maps, 65 scenes, 8 infographics, 403 vignettes, 51 film posters and 181 hand-lettered lettering (decorative initials, own cursive, small caps, minuscule numbers etc. edited, optimized, designed and drawn by the artist). Robert Nippoldt's illustrations show artists such as George Grosz , Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau , Lotte Reiniger and Bertolt Brecht as well as journalists and writers such as Egon Erwin Kisch , Christopher Isherwood, Harry Graf Kessler and Kurt Tucholsky , public figures such as Albert Einstein , Friedrich Ebert and Walther Rathenau or Rudolf Ullstein as well as historically significant places (e.g. the Hotel Adlon , the Lunapark or the Haus Vaterland ), film posters and infographics. The social aspects are also illuminated, including portraits of Anita Berber , Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld , the Sass brothers and Commissioner Ernst Gennat . The variety, film and theater culture is explained using protagonists such as Josephine Baker , Friedrich Hollaender , Kurt Weill , Claire Waldoff , Marlene Dietrich and Max Reinhardt . The enclosed CD was put together in consultation with swing DJ Stephan Wuthe and contains 26 original recordings from the 1920s.
Screen prints with motifs from the Berlin Book have been exhibited several times. The edition now comprises 74 prints. The show “ A mysterious shimmer ” goes well with the book . The stage program with live drawings and live music was developed by Robert Nippoldt and the trio megalomania . The show has already been performed more than 60 times, including in the Pantheon Theater in Bonn , in the Neukölln home port in Berlin , in the historic town hall in Wuppertal and on the AIDA cruise ships .
Book editions
German edition
- Robert Nippoldt: Night falls in Berlin in the Roaring Twenties , with Boris Pofalla (text), TASCHEN, Cologne 2017. ISBN 978-3-8365-6319-2
English version
- Robert Nippoldt: Night Falls on the Berlin in the Roaring Twenties with Boris Pofalla (text), TASCHEN, Cologne 2018. ISBN 978-3-8365-6320-8
French edition
- Robert Nippoldt: La nuit tombe sur le Berlin des Années folles avec Boris Pofalla (text), TASCHEN, Cologne 2018. ISBN 978-3-8365-6321-5
Awards
- ADC Award, 2019, New York
- Indigo Design Award, 2019, Amsterdam
- iF Design Award, 2019, Hanover
- German Design Award , 2019, Frankfurt
- A 'Design Award, 2019, Como
- Econ Megaphon Award, Shortlist, 2018, Berlin
- International Design Award, 2018, Los Angeles
- Best Book Award, 2018, Los Angeles
- Berliner Type Award, 2018, Berlin
- red dot design award , 2018, Essen
- Award from the Art Directors Club, 2018, Berlin
- Joseph Binder Award , 2018, Vienna
- International Creative Media Award, 2018, Meerbusch
- Film book of the month, Hans Helmut Prinzler , January 2018, Berlin
Press reviews
- The book is a wonderful and original homage to a time that, thanks to a music CD with original recordings, becomes a total work of art for all the senses. - Focus, 2017
- Nippoldt's clear, elegant style, shaded with brown and black tones, ennobles the book into a work of art. - time 2017
- Berlin in the twenties: glamor in black and white - Spiegel, 2017
- A sensual compendium of the times - Gunda Bartels, Tagesspiegel, Berlin
- A beautifully drawn book is dedicated to Berlin in the 1920s. - World, 2017
- Wow! Robert Nippoldt's most beautiful book. This has truly become his magnum opus. Absolutely impressive illustrations and a great concept. - Volker Kutscher , author
- Wild parties, excessive zest for life and pulsating big city life: ... the illustrator Robert Nippoldt and the author Boris Pofalla capture the mood of that time in a city portrait. - Deutschlandfunk Kultur, 2017
- Albert Einstein, Kurt Weill, Marlene Dietrich and George Grosz: Boris Pofalla and Robert Nippoldt have put the whole of Berlin during the Roaring Twenties in a brilliantly illustrated book. - AD Architectural Digest, 2017
- Illustrator Robert Nippoldt has captured the spirit of these years together with author Boris Pofalla in an atmospherically dense city portrait. - rbb Radioeins, 2017
- A famously illustrated and excitingly described insight into an exciting age. - Rolling Stone, 2017
- Night falls in Berlin in the Roaring Twenties is an outstanding work about eventful times. - Kurier, Vienna 2017
- There is probably no more pleasant way to get into the fascinating history of this city. - Page, 2018
- Culinary, sensual and educational at the same time! - NDR, 2018
Web links
- Literature by and about Robert Nippoldt in the catalog of the German National Library
- Page by Robert Nippoldt
- Page to the accompanying show "A Mysterious Shimmer"
Individual evidence
- ↑ Night falls in Berlin in the Roaring Twenties Contents and details / TASCHEN Verlag
- ^ Exhibition gallery on the first floor, Wernigerode
- ^ Exhibition Taschen Store, Berlin
- ↑ Insights into a puzzling time wn.de, 2017
- ↑ A mysterious glimmer / dates
- ↑ Night falls in the Berlin of the Roaring Twenties at TASCHEN Verlag
- ↑ Night Falls on the Berlin in the Roaring Twenties in English from TASCHEN Verlag
- ↑ La nuit tombe sur le Berlin des Années folles in French by TASCHEN Verlag
- ^ ADC Award
- ↑ Indigo Design Award
- ↑ iF Design Award
- ↑ German Design Award
- ↑ A 'Design Award
- ^ Econ Megaphone Award, shortlist
- ↑ International Design Award
- ↑ Best Book Award
- ↑ Berlin Type Award
- ^ ADC Award
- ^ Joseph Binder Award
- ↑ International Creative Media Award ( Memento of the original from January 15, 2019 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Hans Helmut Prinzler on the book "Berlin"
- ↑ Opulent homage to Berlin in the 20s focus.de, 2017
- ↑ On Ashes, On Dust, On The Hype zeit.de, 2017
- ↑ Berlin in the twenties: glamor in black and white , photo gallery, spiegel.de, 2017
- ↑ Berlin's Roaring Twenties: Black on Champagne tagesspiegel.de, 2017
- ↑ These women were Berlin's first influencers welt.de, 2017
- ↑ Quote Volker Kutscher zeit.de, 2017
- ↑ Berlin's wild 1920s deutschlandfunkkultur.de, 2017
- ↑ Recently, at night in Berlin ad-magazin.de, 2017
- ↑ Strolling through Berlin in the 20s inforadio.de, 2017 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ The world of "Babylon Berlin": Night falls in the Berlin of the Roaring Twenties rollingstone.de, 2017
- ↑ Berlin was the city of women kurier.at, 2017
- ↑ Magnificent illustrated book: Berlin in the 1920s page-online.de, 2018
- ^ Fascinating Berlin portrait ndr.de, 2018
