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Peter Jelavich

Berlin Cabaret

Peter Jelavich

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English
Harvard University Press
01 February 1996
Variety shows, music hall, cabaret; History; European history; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900; 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000
Series: Studies in Cultural History
"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 sense of 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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Imprint:   Harvard University Press
Country of Publication:   United States
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Height: 235mm,  Width: 156mm,  Spine: 23mm
Weight:   490g
ISBN:   9780674067622
ISBN 10:   0674067622
Series:   Studies in Cultural History
Pages:   336
Publication Date:  
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  General/trade ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Undergraduate ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Introduction 1. Cabaret as Metropolitan Montage Berlin: Cosmopolitan Life, Consumerism, and Montage Variety Shows and Nietzschean Vitalism Berlin Wit: Laughter and Censorship 2.

Peter Jelavich is Professor of History, University of Texas at Austin.

Reviews for Berlin Cabaret

Peter Jelavich has dismantled many legends about the politics of popular entertainments in his fine history, Berlin Cabaret . -- Anthony Grafton New York Review of Books


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