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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 ]
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.
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 Golden Twenties (German: Goldene Zwanziger), also known as the Happy Twenties (German: Glückliche Zwanziger), was a five-year time period within the decade of the 1920s in Germany. The era began in 1924, after the end of the hyperinflation following World War I, and ended with the Wall Street Crash of 1929.
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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