Calla Henkel's Berlin Babylon

Nearly 50 guests have packed in to listen to DJ sets from the musician James Whipple . But it also happens to be the 34th birthday of the bar’s coproprietor Max Pitegoff. He and his artistic partner, Calla Henkel, run the nightspot, a fully functioning bar-cum–performance space–cum–television production studio. Right now, the two are getting ready for the festivities behind the white-tiled bar counter. Henkel has commissioned a baker to make a deranged clown cake.

“Tonight’s giving reunion vibes,” says 33-year-old Henkel, referring to Times Bar, a previous establishment that she and Pitegoff opened in 2011 as their first foray into Berlin nightlife. They originally met in art school in New York—Henkel coming from Minneapolis, Pitegoff from Buffalo. At the Cooper Union, they began collaborating on performances, and when Henkel moved to Berlin after graduation, Pitegoff followed a few months later.

The novel might mark a new direction for Henkel, but it’s still tied to her ongoing projects with Pitegoff. “The character wanting to turn her apartment into a club comes from a deranged logic I know well,” she says. As with so much of her art, the writing and dialogue ofbleeds into reality. At one particularly hilarious meta-moment in the novel, Hailey gets excited because Interview magazine includes Beatrice in its “Best of Berlin Nightlife” list.

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