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" Das lila Lied" (German for "The Lavender Song") is a German cabaret song written in 1920 with lyrics by Kurt Schwabach and music by Mischa Spoliansky and is considered one of the first gay anthems. [ 1 ]
Gerson continued performing as a popular cabaret singer throughout the 1920s and acting in films. By 1933, when the Nazi Party came to power in Germany, the German-Jewish population was systematically stripped of rights, and Gerson's career slowed dramatically. Blacklisted from performing in "Aryan" films, Gerson began recording music for a ...
Kabarett is the German word for the French word cabaret but has two different meanings. The first meaning is the same as in English, describing a form of entertainment featuring comedy, song, dance, and theatre (often the word "cabaret" is used in German for this as well to distinguish this form). The latter describes a kind of political satire.
By the late 1920s, Ney was performing regularly in the "Cabaret of Comics" (Kabarett der Komiker ), the longest-running German-language cabaret. [ 7 ] [ 4 ] [ 3 ] [ 8 ] She was famous enough to receive reviews in the American magazine Variety and was one of the most famous German women singers in the 1920s and 1930s .
Valeska Gert (11 January 1892 – c. 16 March 1978) was a German dancer, pantomime, cabaret artist, actress and pioneering performance artist. Early life and career [ edit ]
Germany was slowly becoming more urban and middle class. Still, by 1925, only a third of Germans lived in large cities; the other two-thirds of the population lived in the smaller towns or in rural areas. [6] The total population of Germany rose from 62.4 million in 1920 to 65.2 million in 1933. [7]
Claire Waldoff (21 October 1884 – 22 January 1957), born Clara Wortmann, was a German singer.She was a famous kabarett singer and entertainer in Berlin during the 1910s to the 1930s, chiefly known for performing ironic songs in the Berlin dialect and with lesbian undertones and themes.
The first recording of Cabaret was the original Broadway cast album with a number of the songs either truncated (e.g., "Sitting Pretty"/"The Money Song") or outright cut to conserve disk space. [81] When this album was released on compact disc, Kander and Ebb's voice-and-piano recordings of songs cut from the musical were added as bonus ...