Step into Ernst Wolzogen's Motley Theater, Max Reinhardt's Sound
and Smoke, Rudolf Nelson's Chat noir, and Friedrich Hollaender's
Tingel-Tangel. Enjoy Claire Waldoff's rendering of a lower-class
Berliner, Kurt Tucholsky's satirical songs, and Walter Mehring's
Dadaist experiments, as Peter Jelavich spotlights Berlin's cabarets
from the day the curtain first went up, in 1901, until the Nazi
regime brought it down. Fads and fashions, sexual mores and
political ideologies - all were subject to satire and parody on the
cabaret stage. This book follows the changing treatment of these
themes, and the fate of cabaret itself, through the most turbulent
decades of modern German history: the prosperous and optimistic
Imperial age, the unstable yet culturally inventive Weimar era, and
the repressive years of National Socialism. By situating cabaret
within Berlin's rich landscape of popular culture and
distinguishing it from vaudeville and variety theaters, spectacular
revues, prurient "nude dancing", and Communist agitprop, Jelavich
revises the prevailing image of this form of entertainment. Neither
highly politicized, like postwar German Kabarett, nor sleazy in the
way that some American and European films suggest, Berlin cabaret
occupied a middle ground that let it cast an ironic eye on the
goings-on of Berliners and other Germans. However, it was just this
satirical attitude toward serious themes, such as politics and
racism, that blinded cabaret to the strength of the radical
right-wing forces that ultimately destroyed it. Jelavich concludes
with the Berlin cabaret artists' final performances - as prisoners
in the concentration camps at Westerbork and Theresienstadt. This
book gives us a senseof what the world looked like within the
cabarets of Berlin and at the same time lets us see, from a
historical distance, these lost performers enacting the political,
sexual, and artistic issues that made their city one of the most
dynamic in Europe.
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