Berlin Cabaret

Klappentext This work looks at Berlin's cabarets from the day the curtain first went up! in 1901! until the Nazi regime brought it down. It follows the changing treatment of popular cabaret themes! and the fate of the cabaret itself. Zusammenfassung 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 German history.

Product details

• Authors: Peter Jelavich, Jelavich Peter
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.02.1996
• EAN: 9780674067622
• ISBN: 978-0-674-06762-2
• No. of pages: 336
• Series: Studies in Cultural History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; History, HISTORY / Europe / Germany, European History, Germany, HISTORY / Social History, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, c 1500 onwards to present day, Other performing arts, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General