Steffen Schroeder: Der ewige Tanz

In the organizer's words:

Summer 1928: Anita Berber lies weakened in a Berlin hospital. She had just been a star, embodying the new era on stage and in dozens of films, living and loving excessively. Until the hostilities in Vienna, in which a dark future loomed ... Anita Berber thinks back to her beloved grandmother Lu, with whom she grew up. Her path to divine dance, the great Fritz Lang and the ambitious Marlene Dietrich, who soon copied Anita's style. While friends - such as Otto Dix, who painted her - visit her, Anita Berber searches for the decisive wrong step on her path. She wanted to turn dance into art, into a celebration of life - others only saw the scandal. Her thoughts revolve around all of this, including her great, lost love. And about Felix Berber, the famous violinist - her lifelong missing father.
After the First World War, everything solid is shaken, the world is unexpectedly free and dangerous at the same time. Steffen Schroeder tells the story of Anita Berber's exciting life, which epitomizes this era - between self-determination, the greatest freedom and risk. A gripping panorama with an ardent heroine.

Steffen Schroeder, born in Munich in 1974, is an actor and writer. He was a member of the ensemble at Vienna's Burgtheater before following Claus Peymann to the Berliner Ensemble. He has appeared in numerous television series and films, such as "SOKO Leipzig" and "Der rote Baron". Schroeder is committed to the White Ring and against right-wing extremism, and has been an ambassador for the organization Exit Germany since 2017. His book "Was alles in einem Menschen sein kann. Encounter with a Murderer" (2017) triggered a great response. His debut novel "Mein Sommer mit Anja" was published in 2020, followed by "Planck oder Als das Licht seine Leichtigkeit verlor" in 2022. Steffen Schroeder lives with his family in Potsdam.

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