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Author Jelavich, Peter.

Title Berlin cabaret / Peter Jelavich
Published Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1993

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 322 pages) : illustrations
Series Studies in cultural history
Studies in cultural history.
Contents Preface -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Cabaret as Metropolitan Montage -- Berlin: Cosmopolitan Life, Consumerism, and Montage -- Variety Shows and Nietzschean Vitalism -- Berlin Wit: Laughter and Censorship -- 2. Between Elitism and Entertainment: Wolzogen�s Motley Theater -- The Premiere of the Motley Theater -- Critics and Competitors -- New Theater, Rapid Demise -- 3. From Artistic Parody to Theatrical Renewal: Reinhardt�s Sound and Smoke -- Theatrical Parody for Connoisseurs -- A Temporary Turn to Political Satire: Serenissimus
The Path to a New Theatricality4. Cosmopolitan Diversions, Metropolitan Identities -- Policing the Pub-Cabarets -- Two Sides of Metropolitan Cabaret: Rudolf Nelson and Claire Waldoff -- Fashioning Berlin: The Metropol Revues -- 5. Political Satire in the Early Weimar Republic -- Nationalism in Wartime and Postwar Entertainment -- Limitations of Republican Satire: Kurt Tucholsky -- Dada and Metropolitan Tempo: Walter Mehring -- 6. The Weimar Revue -- The Americanization of Entertainment: Jazz and Black Performers -- “Girls and Crisis�
7. Political Cabaret at the End of the RepublicThe Politics of Revues and Cabaret-Revues -- Cabaret and the Crises of the Late Republic -- Red Revues and Agitprop -- 8. Cabaret under National Socialism -- The Suppression of Critical Cabaret -- From “Positive Cabaret� to Total Depoliticization -- Only the “Girls� Remain -- Epilogue: Cabaret in Concentration Camps -- Notes -- Index
Analysis Entertainments History
Berlin (Germany)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-315) and index
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Subject Music-halls (Variety-theaters, cabarets, etc.) -- Germany -- Berlin -- History
Political satire, German -- Germany -- Berlin -- History and criticism
Theater -- Political aspects -- Germany -- Berlin
PERFORMING ARTS -- Comedy.
HISTORY -- Europe -- Germany.
Music-halls (Variety-theaters, cabarets, etc.)
Political satire, German
Social conditions
Theater -- Political aspects
Kabarett
Geschichte
Cabaret.
Revues.
Politieke satires.
Cabarets -- Allemagne -- Berlin (Allemagne) -- 1900-1945.
Music-halls -- Allemagne -- Berlin (Allemagne)
Cafés-théâtres -- Allemagne -- Berlin (Allemagne)
Satire politique allemande -- Allemagne -- Berlin (Allemagne)
Théâtre -- Aspect politique -- Allemagne -- Berlin (Allemagne)
SUBJECT Berlin (Germany) -- Social conditions -- 20th century
Subject Germany -- Berlin
Berlin
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780674039131
0674039130