WORDS DANIELLE MUSTARDE
PHOTO ROD PENN
The pull to perform runs in Bernie Dieter’s veins. “My Oma’s [grandmother’s] family owned a circus in Germany before the war, so circus has always been in my blood, ” she explains. Performing her irst ever “spiegeltent show” at the age of 22, Bernie is currently rounding up her run as the sequin-studded Mistress of Chaos at Little Death Club on London’s Southbank. But just what is it that makes the debauched Mistress Dieter tick?