Berlin Cabaret

Author : Peter JELAVICH
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674039130
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Berlin Cabaret written by Peter JELAVICH and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : John Van Druten
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN 13 : 9780822205456
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I Am a Camera written by John Van Druten and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1983 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in Berlin between the two world wars the play explores the tensions leading to the rise of Hitler.

Author : Emil Nolde
Publisher : Dumont
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nolde in Berlin written by Emil Nolde and published by Dumont. This book was released on 2007 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes a stunning selection of Noldes paintings, watercolours and prints depicting the nightlife of Berlin in the early twentieth century.

Author : Lori Münz
Publisher : Edel Germany GmbH
ISBN 13 : 3937406166
Total Pages : 125 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cabaret Berlin written by Lori Münz and published by Edel Germany GmbH. This book was released on 2005 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A photographic rendezvous with Berlin of the 1920's. This collection of a book and 4 CDs contains authentic recordings and tone documents.

Author : Charlotte Luise Fechner
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3638926524
Total Pages : 85 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Berlin Cabaret & The Neue Frau 1918-1933 written by Charlotte Luise Fechner and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2008-03 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bachelor Thesis from the year 2001 in the subject Theater Studies, Dance, grade: A, University of North London, 34 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: The 'Golden Twenties': it was a time of great diversity and confusions, changes and excitements, fears and joys, both in public life and in private. And eventually, a time when womankind redefined herself. The Neue Frau was born. This work examines the Myth of the Neue Frau in relationship with the metropolis Berlin and its Cabaret scene during the time of the Weimar Republic. "Berlin is a girl in a pullover, not much powder on her face, H lderlin in her pocket, thighs like those of Atlanta, an undigested education, a heart which is almost too ready to sympathise, and a breadth of view which charmes one's repressions . One walks with her among the lights and the shadows. And after an hour or so one is hand in hand...Berlin stimulates like arsenic, and then when one's nerves are all ajingle she comes with her hot milk of human kindness; and in the end, for an hour and a half, one is able, gratefully to go to sleep." Harold Nicolson, journalist, about Berlin during the 1920s

Author : William Grange
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350140279
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cabaret written by William Grange and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-07-15 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where did cabaret come from? What has it got to do with pre-war Berlin, decadent society and Nazis? How does it turn into media cabaret and the sisterhood of sleaze? Is cabaret a primary vehicle for exploring the range of sexual practices and alternative sexual identities? In this new book William Grange brings into one place for the first time the range of practices now associated with the form of cabaret. Beginning with its origins in speciality German theatres and the development both of the sheet music industry and disc recordings, Grange tracks the form through into its golden age in the 1920s and beyond. The book's three sections deal first with the emergence of Berlin as the 'German Chicago', where cabaret flourished in the midst of post-war political turmoil. The abolition of censorship allowed nude dancing and sexually explicit songs and routines. It also saw the introduction of kick-line dancing and black performers. In the book's second and third sections Grange takes the story forward into the post second-world-war world, describing how the form moved outwards from central Europe to move across the whole world, reaching Singapore and Australia, and as it did so settling into the range of forms in which we know it today. Some of these forms became 'media cabaret' looking towards the new media age, the postmodernism that followed on from modernism. To this age, even in its new forms, cabaret brought its old habits of making challenges to assumptions around gender identities and sexual practices. As throughout its whole history, cabaret was a form that provided particular vehicles for female performers. And whereas it once served up whore songs and nude dancing it now offers a sisterhood of sleaze.

Author : Stephen Tropiano
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0879104228
Total Pages : 107 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cabaret written by Stephen Tropiano and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2011-02-01 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1973, Cabaret walked away with eight Academy Awards, including gold statues for director Bob Fosse and for its stars, Liza Minnelli and Joel Grey. Based on the long-running Broadway musical, with a memorable score by John Kander and Fred Ebb, Cabaret is a landmark film that broke new cinematic ground by revolutionizing the Hollywood musical through its treatment of adult themes and art house sensibility. With an introduction by Joel Grey, the book chronicles the history of Cabaret from Christopher Isherwood's Berlin Stories to the stage and film versions of John van Druten's play I Am a Camera through the adaptation of the hit Broadway musical for the big screen. Readers will get an insider's look into the making of the film, the creative talent in front of the camera and behind the scenes, and why this divinely decadent musical continues to captivate audiences.

Author : Keith Garebian
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199830193
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Making of Cabaret written by Keith Garebian and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-04-20 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A handy and engaging chronicle, this book is the most detailed production history to date of the original Broadway version of Cabaret, showing how the show evolved from Christopher Isherwood's Berlin stories, into John van Druten's stage play, a British film adaptation, and then the Broadway musical, conceived and directed by Harold Prince as an early concept musical. With nearly 40 illustrations, full cast credits, and a bibliography, The Making of Cabaret will appeal to musical theatre aficionados, theatre specialists, and students and performers of musical theatre.

Author : KIRCHHOFF
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 148996715X
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Views of Berlin written by KIRCHHOFF and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-11 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Christopher Isherwood
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Goodbye to Berlin written by Christopher Isherwood and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: