Credit: Asphalt Stars Productions/Album/Alamy Stock Photo. Christopher Isherwood (left) and Don Bachardy, 1970s. See Bachardy in a virtual conversation with Eric Marcus here. Their three decades’ worth of love letters were published in the book The Animals, which in turn was made into a podcast with Alan Cumming and Simon Callow. Bachardy sketched and painted Isherwood countless times, including right before, during, and after his death. He still lives in the house he and Isherwood shared ( take a tour ) and works to keep their legacy alive through the Christopher Isherwood Foundation. Bachardy is a portrait artist you can see some of his work here. For a look into their lives together, watch the 2007 documentary Chris & Don: A Love Story. įor over 30 years, Isherwood was in a relationship with Don Bachardy. In 1976, Isherwood published Christopher and His Kind, a candid memoir in which he revisited his Berlin years, including the time he spent in the city’s gay bars. The latter inspired the play I Am a Camera (1951) and the stage musical and film Cabaret ( starring Liza Minnelli ). Norris Changes Trains (1935) and Goodbye to Berlin (1939). Isherwood first found literary fame with his semi-autobiographical novels Mr. Isherwood and Auden were part of a circle of modernist British writers that included their close friend Stephen Spender. They also collaborated on a book of travel writings called Journey to a War (1939).
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As young men they explored gay life in early 1930s Berlin and wrote three plays together: The Dog Beneath the Skin (1935), The Ascent of F6 (1936), and On the Frontier (1938). Auden had an epic, life-long friendship-the kind people write books about. Hear him read from his work on the album Christopher Isherwood Reads…, which he recorded when he was 71 years old, or listen to a recording of a live reading of his work here, starting at 3:44. įind an overview of all of Isherwood’s published works here. Watch the author talk about his life and work in this short collection of filmed interviews, spanning nearly four decades, and this 1974 interview. For a book-length biography, check out Peter Parker’s Isherwood: A Life Revealed. Read a short biography of Christopher Isherwood here. But as he told Studs Terkel in this 1977 interview, to him, Berlin meant, above all, boys.
His stories about his years there inspired the musical Cabaret, which shaped the image of decadent interwar Berlin in the popular imagination. Credit: Howard Coster/© National Portrait Gallery, London Īuthor Christopher Isherwood left England for Germany in 1929.
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