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Kabarett im Katacombe

KABARETT in Katacombe

About Me


My Interests

The German Cabaret, Burlesque, Expressionism, Dada, Surrealism, Bauhaus, Jazz, flappers, vamps, charleston, Punk opera, electro cabaret, Postpunk, Deathrock, Gothic Ragtime, klezmer, Neo-Cabaret, Dark Cabaret and more...

I'd like to meet:

Kurt WEILL Hugo BALL
Magnus HIRSCHFELD Marlene DIETRICH
Lotte LENYA

Music:

Marlene Dietrich, Danny Elfman, Rozz Williams, Kurt Weill, Katzenjammer Kabarett, Ute Lemper, Nina Hagen, This Mortal Coil, Marc Almond, Voltaire, Nico, The Dresden Dolls, Lucy Mannheim, The Virgin Prunes, Tori Amos, Miranda Sex Garden, The Tiger Lillies, Lydia Lunch, Diamanda Galas, Gitane Demone, Nick Cave, David Bowie, The Vanishing, Jad Wio, Lale Anderson, Coil, Romeo Void, Malaria!, Nico, Klaus Nomi, Patti Palladin, Cole Porter, Cinema Strange, Claire Waldorf, Black Sun Productions and more...

Movies:

Robert Wiene, F.W. Murnau, Fritz Lang, Werner Herzog, Tim Burton, Max Ehrlich, The Einstein of Sex - Life and Work of Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, "The Blue Angel", "Cabaret", "The Rocky Horror Picture Show", "paragraph 175"...

Television:

The drug of the people.

Books:

Raoul Hausmann, Bertolt Brecht, Richard Huelsenbeck, Arthur Schnitzler, Magnus Hirschfeld, Heinrich Mann, Franz Kafka, Charles Baudelaire, Kurt Tucholsky...

Heroes:

Max Ehrlich, Claire Waldoff...

My Blog

Jura Soyfer

Jura Soyfer was the son of the industrialist Vladimir Soyfer and his wife Lyuboc. The well-to-do Jewish family employed French- and English-speaking governesses for Soyfer and his older sister Tamara....
Posted by Kabarett im Katacombe on Tue, 11 Apr 2006 07:43:00 PST

Klaus Mann

Klaus Mann (November 18, 1906 May 21, 1949) was a German writer.Born in Munich, Mann was the son of German writer Thomas Mann and his wife Katia Pringsheim, whose parents were secular Jews. He began ...
Posted by Kabarett im Katacombe on Tue, 11 Apr 2006 07:38:00 PST

Werner Finck

Werner Finck (May 2, 1902 - July 31, 1978) was a German comedian, an actor with "comic bones". He could read the phone book and it would seem extremely funny.Born in Grlitz, he began his career as an ...
Posted by Kabarett im Katacombe on Tue, 11 Apr 2006 07:25:00 PST

Karl Valentin

Karl Valentin ( 4th June, 1882 in Munich; 9th February, 1948 in Planegg near Munich); actually Valentin Ludwig Fey, was a Bavarian comedian, author and film producer, who had great influence on German...
Posted by Kabarett im Katacombe on Tue, 11 Apr 2006 07:22:00 PST

Kurt Tucholsky

Kurt Tucholsky (Berlin, January 9, 1890 December 21, 1935 in Gothenburg) was a German journalist, satirist and writer. He also wrote under the pseudonyms Kaspar Hauser, Peter Panter, Theobald Tiger a...
Posted by Kabarett im Katacombe on Tue, 11 Apr 2006 07:20:00 PST

German Cabaret (Kabarett)

The French cabaret spread to Berlin. While it already produced influential songs, such as Ernst von Wolzogen's Madame Adele (1901).In 1916, Hugo Ball, Emmy Hennings, Tristan Tzara, Hans Arp, Richard H...
Posted by Kabarett im Katacombe on Tue, 28 Mar 2006 06:29:00 PST

Expressionism (film)

Expressionism in filmmaking developed in Germany (especially Berlin) during the 1920s. During the period of recovery following World War I, the German film industry was booming, but because of the har...
Posted by Kabarett im Katacombe on Tue, 28 Mar 2006 06:03:00 PST

The Golden 1920's in Berlin

The Golden 1920'sThe founding of Hirschfeld's institute coincided with the suffragette movement, shorter skirts, cropped hair for women and the so-called flapper look. Differences between the sexes we...
Posted by Kabarett im Katacombe on Mon, 27 Mar 2006 05:07:00 PST

Expressionism

Expressionism is the tendency of an artist to distort reality for an emotional effect. Expressionism is exhibited in many art forms, including painting, literature, film, architecture and music. Addit...
Posted by Kabarett im Katacombe on Mon, 27 Mar 2006 04:57:00 PST

Bauhaus

Bauhaus is the common term for the Staatliches Bauhaus, an art and architecture school in Germany that operated from 1919 to 1933, and for the approach to design that it developed and taught. The most...
Posted by Kabarett im Katacombe on Mon, 27 Mar 2006 04:48:00 PST