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Potsdamer Platz, or, The Nights of the New Messiah: Ecstatic Visions
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A frenzied German Expressionist tale of orgy as salvation in Weimar Berlin
Originally published in German in 1919, Postdamer Platz was Curt Corrinth’s first novel to employ an expressionistic, frenetic prose and presented his excessive vision of free love. Inspired by the sex theories of Freud’s controversial disciple Otto Gross, Corrinth preached the sexual orgy as a means to salvation and universal copulation as a new world religion.
The book’s provincial protagonist, Hans Termaden, arrives...