Theater im Delphi (Moka Efti)

The next night, Edith met Charlotte at the Moka Efti Club. After a few drinks Charlotte led Edith downstairs to where she "really worked". The basement area was dark with satin red sheets everywhere. She made Edith put on a fancy dress and introduced her to the hostess. Edith was then placed in a room with a tired old man. She turned around for a moment only to realize he had taken off his robe. Edith finally made the realization that Charlotte worked in a brothel. Crying harder than ever before, Edith ran out the door and all the way home. When she walked inside her house, she saw her father reading in the study. She ran into his arm in tears exclaiming how sorry she was. He hugged her back saying how happy he was that she was safe. Later on, Edith revealed to her father why she had gone out so much. She was looking to understand herself and try to understand her purpose. After mentioning her friends like Isherwood and Marlene, she began to tell her father about the woman from the Dorian Gray. Shockingly, her father hugged her up tighter. He was no longer upset with her for disobeying him, because he finally understood that Edith needed to venture out into the world to truly find herself.

This was the location for club Moka Efti in Babylon Berlin, and it was built in 1929. It had a morbid charm with Art Deco architecture. Now, it shows classics like Nosferatu and is a backdrop for theatre, opera, and 1920's themed parties. The area was a cultural hotspot, and famous people like Marlene Dietrich and Fritz Lang have been there. Today, it is unrecognizable from the outside an unknown to many Berliners as a silent movie theater. The original interior is still intact after surviving World War II. However, it did close during the German Democratic Republic, and reopen in 2012.

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History. Theater im Delphi. (2019, November 13). Retrieved December 1, 2021, from https://theater-im-delphi.de/en/history/.