Berlin Cabaret / / Peter Jelavich.

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 Dadai...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2021]
©1996
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Studies in Cultural History
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Physical Description:1 online resource (336 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Introduction
  • 1 Cabaret as Metropolitan Montage
  • 2 Between Elitism and Entertainment: Wolzogen's Motley Theater
  • 3 From Artistic Parody to Theatrical Renewal: Reinhardt's Sound and Smoke
  • 4 Cosmopolitan Diversions, Metropolitan Identities
  • 5 Political Satire in the Early Weimar Republic
  • 6 The Weimar Revue
  • 7 Political Cabaret at the End of the Republic
  • 8 Cabaret under National Socialism
  • Epilogue: Cabaret in Concentration Camps
  • Notes
  • Index