On this day
26
August

Christopher Isherwood, Sophia Parnok, Röbi Rapp

Born: Christopher Isherwood (1904)
Died: Sophia Parnok (1933), Röbi Rapp (2018)

Born on this day

26AugBorn 1904122nd birthday

Christopher Isherwood

His Berlin stories helped inspire “Cabaret”; later writing made his own gay life and relationships explicit.

Died on this day

26AugDied 193393rd anniversary of death

Sophia Parnok

“Russia’s Sappho” wrote openly about love between women – and had an intense affair with the poet Marina Tsvetaeva.

26AugDied 20188th anniversary of death

Röbi Rapp

A star of the drag shows at the balls of “Der Kreis”, he lived for 61 years with Ernst Ostertag – the couple whose story became the film “Der Kreis”.