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Natalia Landauer is the 18-year-old daughter of the wealthy Jewish Landauer family. She and Christopher strike up a friendship, often attending artistic events together and talking. After Christopher introduces Natalia to Sally, who makes antisemitic comments and generally inappropriate conversation, their friendship fades. She moves to Paris, where she studies art and marries a doctor.
Natalia Landauer Quotes in Goodbye to Berlin
The Goodbye to Berlin quotes below are all either spoken by Natalia Landauer or refer to Natalia Landauer. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 5: The Landauers Quotes
“I await always that the worst will come. I know how things are in Germany today, and suddenly it can be that my father lose all. You know, that is happened once already? Before the War, my father has had a big factory in Posen. The War comes, and my father has to go. Tomorrow, it can be here the same.”
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“You, Christopher, with your centuries of Anglo-Saxon freedom behind you, with your Magna Carta engraved upon your heart, cannot understand that we poor barbarians need the stiffness of a uniform to keep us upright.”
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Natalia Landauer Character Timeline in Goodbye to Berlin
The timeline below shows where the character Natalia Landauer appears in Goodbye to Berlin. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 5: The Landauers
Frau Landauer invites Christopher to supper, where he meets the 18-year-old Natalia Landauer. The two strike up a friendship, and she lends him books to read. He...
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Two weeks later, Christopher visits the Landauers again for dinner. Afterward, he and Natalia go to the cinema and see a comedy film. Natalia gets angry with him because...
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Christopher and Natalia continue to spend time together. He notices that she avoids physical contact with him, even...
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A few days later, Natalia asks Christopher to lunch. All is forgiven. Natalia is ecstatic because her father, Herr Landauer,...
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...his travels abroad. They dine together and get to know each other, though Christopher heeds Natalia’s warning and does not go into detail about his own life.
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Having developed their friendship, Christopher decides to introduce Natalia to Sally Bowles at a café. However, the interaction goes awry when Sally makes an...
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After their coffee with Sally, Christopher feels his relationship with Natalia begin to fade. Natalia assumes that Sally is his lover, and he does not correct...
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...astonished, Bernhard tells him that it happens all the time. Bernhard also tells him that Natalia is married to a French doctor. When Christopher tries to talk with Bernhard about politics,...
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