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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).
Weimar culture was the emergence of the arts and sciences that happened in Germany during the Weimar Republic, the latter during that part of the interwar period between Germany's defeat in World War I in 1918 and Hitler's rise to power in 1933. [1] 1920s Berlin was at the hectic center of the Weimar culture. [1]
Cabaret (French pronunciation: ⓘ) is a form of theatrical entertainment featuring music, song, dance, recitation, or drama. The performance venue might be a pub , a casino , a hotel , a restaurant , or a nightclub [ 1 ] with a stage for performances.
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 ...
Überbrettl (German pronunciation: [ˈʔyːbɐˌbʁɛtl̩] super-cabaret) [dubious – discuss] was the first venue in Germany for literary cabaret, or Kabarett, founded 1901 in Berlin by Ernst von Wolzogen. The German Kabarett concept was imported from French venues like Le Chat Noir in Paris, from which it kept the characteristic atmosphere ...
Criminalization made researching, speaking, or writing about queer realities a legal risk during the first decades following WWII, not only in Germany. That the cabaret Eldorado is remembered at all is due in no small part to its central role in inspiring the novels of the Anglo-American author Christopher Isherwood, and to the Broadway musical ...
" 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]
In 1920, she founded the Café Grössenwahn ("Café Megalomania"), which has been recognized as one of the most important literary and political cabarets in 1920s Berlin. Café Megalomania was frequented by Expressionist writers, and the program of sketch comedy and political songs reflected Valetti's belief in the cabaret as an instrument of ...