Berlin Cabaret

by Peter Jelavich

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674067622
• ISBN13: 9780674067622
• Release Date: February 1996
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"