{"product_id":"berlin-cabaret-studies-in-cultural-history-9780674067615","title":"Berlin Cabaret (Studies in Cultural History)","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBerlin Cabaret (Studies in Cultural History)\u003c\/strong\u003e by Jelavich, Peter. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780674067615.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStep into Ernst Wolzogens Motley Theater, Max Reinhardts Sound and Smoke, Rudolf Nelsons Chat noir, and Friedrich Hollaenders Tingel-Tangel. Enjoy Claire Waldoffs rendering of a lower-class Berliner, Kurt Tucholskys satirical songs, and Walter Mehrings Dadaist experiments, as Peter Jelavich spotlights Berlins cabarets from the day the curtain first went up, in 1901, until the Nazi regime brought it down.\nFads 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 Berlins 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.\nNeither 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.\nThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44959069700149,"sku":"ByrdShop_0674067614","price":85.73,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780674067615_1b2fa512-b13b-460c-b8c6-e4aefd554ccd.jpg?v=1778677449","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/berlin-cabaret-studies-in-cultural-history-9780674067615","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}