Berlin Cabaret.

Intro -- 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 Theatricality -- 4. 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 Republic -- The 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.

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.

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