{"product_id":"berlin-cabaret-studies-in-cultural-history-9780674067622","title":"Berlin Cabaret (Studies in Cultural History)","description":"\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.  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 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.  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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45279986221109,"sku":"ByrdShop_0674067622","price":34.12,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780674067622.jpg?v=1780617178","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/berlin-cabaret-studies-in-cultural-history-9780674067622","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}