Into the Dark is a screwball comedy and melodrama, tragedy and romance rolled into one: a novel as a film, glamorous and highly political. Through sophisticated flashbacks, with pace and timing, it explores the relationship between literature, film, and power in an age of staged realities. We sit in the dark. On screen, Greta Garbo and Erika Mann meet in the Swiss mountains in 1969 and reminisce. What was it like with Marlene Dietrich and their shared lover? When film captured the spirit of the times and the Germans shook up Hollywood and all of America. With Erika Mann's anti-fascist cabaret, The Pepper Mill, while the whole world slipped into darkness? With censorship after 1933, even in the USA? Oh—and how well did Greta Garbo and Marlene Dietrich actually know each other? Who dared more on screen? And in life? A love letter to cinema. biography Angela Steidele, born 1968; studied literature, musicology, and philosophy; received her doctorate with this dissertation; publications on Bettine von Arnim and on the topic of homosexuality and literature from a historical perspective; contributor to the "Hildesheim Literary Lexicon" and reviewer of contemporary literature. Notes: New product