Description
Set in Berlin from 1928 to 1933, this sweeping graphic narrative follows Marthe Müller, a young art student seeking freedom and possibility, and Kurt Severing, a seasoned journalist increasingly alarmed by the city’s political unraveling. Their complicated relationship unfolds amid cabarets, jazz clubs, avant-garde art, and an underground queer culture, while the lives of workers, artists, families, Communists, and National Socialists reveal a society strained by poverty, ideology, and fear. With meticulous historical detail and an expansive ensemble cast, the story captures the final years of the Weimar Republic as personal freedoms and democratic ideals give way to extremism. It is an intimate, richly atmospheric portrait of a city—and a generation—standing on the brink of catastrophe.
Available Editions
paperback
Drawn and Quarterly
Published Sep 1, 2020
580 pages
ISBN: 9781770464063
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Details
First Published
2018
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Berlin by Jason Lutes.