![]() (Ross wasn’t so good at singing and dancing, as it would turn out, though the stage and screen renditions of Ms. Ross would be the inspiration for the character Sally Bowles, most famously brought to life by Liza Minnelli in Cabaret, the film inspired by Isherwood’s novel Goodbye to Berlin. It was in that apartment that Isherwood met Jean Ross, the successful journalist and activist who wished instead for a life as a cabaret artist. ![]() So he boarded the day-long train from London to Berlin, sojourning for just a few weeks at first but eventually spending nearly two and a half years in the Schöneberg flat he shared with a dozen other lost souls. Before he became one of Berlin’s defining literary voices, Isherwood defied his mother’s wishes by moving to the German capital in the first place-a choice he made because, as he writes in his autobiography, Christopher and His Kind, “Berlin meant boys.” Tsk tsk. ![]() The English writer Christopher Isherwood never did as he was told. ![]()
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