Aside from Herr Doktor Kitzsler, Nurse Sigrid and his staff, all the characters in this story are real. Of course the story is totally and entirely fabricated, absolutely false and fictional and has no bearing upon the persons therein depicted. I hope that you will be mature enough to take this tale with an indispensable amount of light heartedness, the customary grain of salt and an essential dose of irreverence. Everything is meant to be taken in fun and jest. I have tried to add a spirit of comedy and slight incredibility into what otherwise might have been just a mildly arousing bit of erotica, if even that. Nothing is meant to be taken seriously though I have borrowed a little bit from history.

Many of you will have recognized Louise Brooks, the silent screen actress and Ziegfield Follies dancer. I have used her in this immodest little tale, half in jest and half in admiration. For me she has truly been the model of beauty ever since my teens when I made her acquaintance in her Italian reincarnation as comic strip heroine Valentina. Later on I saw several of her films : Pandora’s Box, Diary of a Lost Girl and Prix de Beauté. Even though silent movies, they are masterpieces all, sublime tales of love and desire. Anyone interested in the person of Louise Brooks, as actress or as beauty is invited to visit the Louise Brooks Home Page for a first acquaintance.

Modestly, I further add that the Doctor Kitzsler featured here is of course the father of the good doctor Sigrid Kitzsler of post war fame. Is there a special reason that the doctor’s assistant nurse is also named Sigrid ? Most likely there is, but I am not yet quite sure what that reason will turn out to be. In any case, the Doctor’s daughter was just born when this story takes place. Both father and daughter are gifted and talented, if somewhat unconventional, physicians, gynecologists and sexologists.

You may also have recognized the apparatus that Doctor K. uses in his Gesundheidsklinikum. Somehow or other it turns up later in a small clinic in the US and is successfully put back to use by a pair of charming female doctors. For that story see ‘The Apparatus’. There is some uncertainty as to the exact nature of the apparatus, but rest assured. The elder Doctor Kitzsler ingeniously redesigned an already existing medical device for use as a dual enema machine.

I have tried to use an appropriate language for a story set in the Roaring Twenties. I haven’t knowingly used any modern day slang, but if I am mistaken, please feel free to point it out.

I used several passages from Louise Brooks’ book : ‘Lulu in Hollywood’ (1982). From chapter 7, ‘Pabst and Lulu’, I have used several sentences verbatim in the opening paragraph of this story. Louise Brooks maid, Josefine Muller was a real person, as was the German director G.W. Pabst. Leni Riefenstahl, at the time actress and later film director did visit the set of Pandora’s Box while Miss Brooks was filming.

I am extremely appalled that Herr Doktor Kitzsler had his Klinikum in Prinz Albrechtsstrasse 7, right next to later Gestapo Headquarters in Berlin. I am sure that this is just an amazing coincidence and can be reasonably explained in a mature fashion, somehow or other.

Translations

Ausgescheignet : outstanding

Krankenschwester : nurse

Der Zwilling : twins

Gesundheitsklinikum : Health clinic

Therapiezentrum : therapy center

Lassen Sie uns allein bitte : leave us alone please

nicht wahr ? : isn’t it so ?

Zu befehl : yes sir / I will obey your orders

genädige Fraulein : dear Miss

Wir werden der Zwilling brauchen in diesen Fall : we’ll use the twins in this case

Abspulung und Reinigung : rinse and cleaning

naturlich : of course