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Title: Berlin Cabaret (Studies in Cultural History (Harvard Univ Pr)) by Peter Jelavich ISBN: 0-674-06762-2 Publisher: Harvard University Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Outstanding chronicle of a very unique period
Comment: Sadly there are few books that give one a real sense of the Weimar years in Germany when the economy collapsed, near-anarchy reigned & bourgeois morality was evaporating along with the value of the mark. Berlin was the quintessential moderne city. Literature, painting & architecture all seemed to explode into new worlds in a kind of Big Bang. This book does a masterful job of documenting the evolution of cabaret theater from the innocent reviews of the early 1920s to the biting political commentary of the late 1920s & early 1930s when the last performances succumbed to the growing influence of the national socialists (nazis). Along the way you get the syncopated nude musical reviews & stage tableaux. There's a lot of careful considered analysis, but also a great feel for the time & place. Very well written & with many fascinating illustrations.
Rating: 3
Summary: Jelavich, mixing culture and politics
Comment: Jelavich's goal in this historical book is to relate the culture of the berlin cabaret at the turn of the century with a political context. Each chapter focuses on a different cabaret, such as Sound and Smoke, and its satires on Berlin life. The book was extremely informative following a tradition that Carl Schorske started with his book "Fin de Siecle Vienna". Though mainly easy to read, I found their was too much information at times, and it became difficult to follow the different characters that Jelavich illuminated.
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Title: The Hot Girls of Weimar Berlin by Barbara Ulrich, Jerry Stahl ISBN: 0922915768 Publisher: Feral House Pub. Date: 01 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Voluptuous Panic: The Erotic World of Weimar Berlin by Mel Gordon ISBN: 092291558X Publisher: Feral House Pub. Date: 30 November, 2000 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Before the Deluge : Portrait of Berlin in the 1920s, A by Otto Friedrich ISBN: 0060926791 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 22 November, 1995 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: Gender and Sexuality in Weimar Modernity : Film, Literature, and "New Objectivity" by Richard W. McCormick ISBN: 031229302X Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Pub. Date: 23 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Weimar Culture: The Outsider as Insider by Peter Gay ISBN: 0393322394 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: December, 2001 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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