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You have never seen a dancer like Voo Doo : das unglaubliche leben des Willy Pape
- Title
- You have never seen a dancer like Voo Doo : das unglaubliche leben des Willy Pape / Jens Dobler.
- Author
- Dobler, Jens, 1965-
- Publication
- Berlin, Germany : Verlag fur Berlin-Brandenburg, 2022.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | HQ76.98 .V66 2022 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 160 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- Summary
- A biography of Voo-Doo, a famous cabaret artist and variety-show dancer who performed in Berlin, Zürich, Paris, Vienna, and other major European cities between 1917 and 1928. German scholar Jens Dobler, who has uncovered much of Pape's biography, writes of "Willi Pape, alias Voo-Doo," as a homosexual "drag artist" (in German: Travestiekünstler) who was referred to by others as "he" and "she;" he also discusses how Pape's life challenged gender norms and that even the terms he has applied are fraught. No known documents survive that describe Pape's gender or sexual identification in Pape's own words.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Biographies.
- ISBN
- 9783969820469
- 3969820464
- OCLC
- 1318944237
- on1318944237
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library