Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • 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: Wolzogenâ€?s Motley Theater
  • The Premiere of the Motley Theater
  • Critics and Competitors
  • New Theater, Rapid Demise
  • 3. From Artistic Parody to Theatrical Renewal: Reinhardtâ€?s Sound and Smoke
  • Theatrical Parody for Connoisseurs
  • A Temporary Turn to Political Satire: Serenissimus
  • The Path to a New Theatricality4. 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 Crisisâ€?
  • 7. Political Cabaret at the End of the RepublicThe 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 Cabaretâ€? to Total Depoliticization
  • Only the “Girlsâ€? Remain
  • Epilogue: Cabaret in Concentration Camps
  • Notes
  • Index