Sarah Zama's Blog, page 35

Nationalsozialismus (Berliner Cabaret #AtoZChallenge)

Even when non-political, cabaret questions social mores with special regard to sexuality, religion and commercialism and this is what constitutes its form of humour and its stronger point of social commentary. Of course, no nationalistic force would ever have any of it.

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Music (Berliner Cabaret #AtoZChallenge)

Germans loved jazz from the beginning. It sounded like the music that could bring renovation and new life to their tired society and was generally welcomed

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Laughter (Berliner Cabaret #AtoZChallenge)

For many philosophers and scholars, laughter was a serious matters and cabaret sure received this message. The more self-conscious cabaret supported the freedom laughter creates

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Kabarett (Berliner Cabaret #AtoZChallenge)

While in the interwar years Germans used the French world Cabaret and the German world Kabarett interchangeably, in subsequent decades, Kabarett came to indicate a more engaged, more political form of entertainment.

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Jews (Berliner Cabaret #AtoZChallenge)

Many cabaretists were Jewish, but they performed in front of a Gentile audience. In the interwar years, when anti-Semitism rose to violence, this created unexpected issues.

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Improvisation (Berliner Cabaret #AtoZChallenge)

Cabaretists very rarely rehearsed their numbers. Their best skill was improvisation and the ability to interact with the audience and adjust to their reactions.

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House (Berliner Cabaret #AtoZChallenge)

Although similar to other concurrent forms of entertainment, cabaret had a very specific characteristic: intimacy. The locale in which cabaret happened was therefore of importance to the language of the show

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Girlkultur (Berliner Cabaret #AtoZChallenge)

The kicklines of girls, though not a novelty, because extremely popular in Germany in the interwar years. They gave a dynamic image of the Nerw Woman... but also insinuated a less glamorous truth about her actual role in society

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First World War (Berliner Cabaret #AtoZChallenge)

A subversive form of art, cabaret wasn’t the right choice for a time of war. During the First World War cabaret renounced its nature to become pure, mindless entertainment

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Energy (Berliner Cabaret #AtoZChallenge)

Berlin was a city propelled by an energy that came in equal parts from anxiety and the search of pleasure and fulfilment. In the 1920s people really ‘danced on the edge of the vulcano’

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