European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 30, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                A by pet Emilia mechanical head by the dadaist Raoul Hausmann from 1921. Flowing the Berlin connection Erlin was really roaring in the 20s. Bertolt Brecht s Mac the knife was rubbing cultural elbows with big Dadas of Art 4p like Paul Klee. Marlene for a Dietrich was emoting compete Stively with Peter Lorre an Greta Garbo. And Joseph Goebbels and Adolf Hitler already were casting lengthening shadows Over the turbulent capital of the Weimar Republic. As Germany plunged into the inflation that followed the first world War when a Dollar was Worth More than four trillion Marks Putsch was followed by counter Putsch depression and unemployment followed inflation. But while rival factions fought in the streets the Best and the brightest in music Art films architecture flocked to the capital that became the cultural Crossroads of Europe. The productions of Max Reinhardt and be Dej Euner the lunch 1921 painting by French cubist Fernand Leger. Prostitutes by German expressionist Otto Dix Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe s first design for a Glass and steel skyscraper other trends in Art of the 20s  Pablo Picasso painting from the 1920s. A by Pete Milia checking out a display at the 15th european Art exhibition in Berlin. Marlene Dietrich in the blow Ange 1929 film reflecting Berlin mood of late 20s, Erwin Piscator revolutionized the theater. The Batons of Wilhelm Furtwangler Bruno Walter and Otto Klemperer waved Over rival orchestras. Brecht and Kurt Weill recast the musical in the Dre Groschen oper. Walter Gropius and Mies Van Der Rohe Laid the basis for modern architecture. In before Fife deluge Otto Friedrich a former stars and stripes correspondent and time editor characterized the Berlin of the 20s As the Center of Europe attracting scientists like Einstein and von Neumann writers like Auden and Isherwood the builders and designers of the bauhaus school and a turbulent Colony of More than 50,000 russian refugees. Vladimir Nabokov gave Tennis lessons Here and Young daredevils forced their cars to More than a Hundred Miles an hour on the new avus Speedway and ladies in evening dress would proceed directly from the theater to the pandemonium of the six Day bicycle races. Berlin s night clubs were the most uninhibited in Europe its booted and umbrella waving streetwalker the most bizarre. Above All Berlin in the 1920s represented a state of mind a sense of Freedom and exhilaration. And because it was so utterly destroyed after a flow ering of less than 15 years it has become a kind of mythical City a lost  How fitting then that this year West Berlin risen from the ashes of nazism and world War ii was chosen As the site of a massive quadruple exhibition called trends of the  scattered through four museums hundreds of paintings architectural drawings sculptures and posters recreate the ferment of that lost decade the sizzling melting pot of dadaism surrealism expressionism and dozens of other cultural isms. The four Art exhibits alone which run through oct. 16 under the umbrella of the 15th european Art exhibition fill the Halls of the new National gallery the Charlottenburg Palace orangery the Academy of Art. Concerts operas dance theater films symposiums and dozens of other events fill in the Canvas of this two month cultural Binge. Bob Cullen a by Pete Milia moustached Mona Lisa by Marcel Duchamp. Page the stars and stripes Friday september 30,1977 the stars and stripes Page 15