“The movements which work revolutions in the world are born out of the dreams and visions in a peasant’s heart on the hillside.”
― James Joyce (#BloomsDay 2019)
Dada was an artistic Avant Garde of the interwar years in Germany, one that, as many other similar artistic muvements, questioned the times and values of those years.
The post AtoZ Challenge link roundup is full of links about Weimare and the Cabaret (what a surprise!). Short writeup about my first months of 2019
Zeitgeist. It’s a German word. It means the ‘spirit of a time’, the inner energy of a particular place at a particular time. That’s cabaret for 1920s Berlin
‘Americanism’ was a characteristic of interwar year Europe. America became the mythical land of everything modern and young, more an idea than a true place
From the very beginning, cabaret was an expression of the popular soul. Its language that of the chanson, the protest song
Bringing Berlin at the same level – possibly higher – to the other European capitals became a priority of the Reich as the German Empire grew and became more powerful in the second half or the 1800s.
The variety show originated mainly from the British music halls, where people could drink, eat and smoke while enjoying different numbers from a stage
The emerging of the urban consumer society had a great influence on the evolution of the entertainment language in the interwar years
The cabaret scene in Berlin was very divers. There were different forms of similar entertainment. The tingletingel was a lower form of cabaret
During the first years of the Weimar Republic censorship fell almost completely. Nude shows became not only possible but extremely popular.
During the Weimar Era the revue might have been even more popular than cabaret. Where cabaret always attempted to be a social commentary, and so demanded a certain amount of involvement by the audience, the revue was mindless entertainment that only tried to amuse.