Where are we drifting?
Kurt Tucholsky (1890 to 1935) had already asked about this.
No wonder, because between the Spartacus uprising in 1919 with 156 dead in Berlin and the Reichstag elections in 1930 with a 15 percent gain for the NSDAP, the young Weimar Republic was constantly agitated.
The Frankfurter Volksbühne in the Großer Hirschgraben describes it in the words of Max Adam: "Lights out, knives out!"
Claudia Schulke
Freelance author in the Rhein-Main-Zeitung.
Follow I follow
That's the name of the new cabaret program about the "terribly topical twenties".
Michael Quast, Ingrid El Sigal and Ulrike Kinbach present songs and texts “between boom and crisis”.
On the first evening on the studio stage in the basement, thanks to the simultaneous bar service, one was able to get used to the future customs in the cultural sector without a mask.
unusual.
Nevertheless: one should send school classes to these two amusing history lessons with the piano accompaniment by Markus Neumeyer.
Gap between "ideal and reality"
The decade of hyperinflation and 200 Brettlbühnen ended with the German football championship for Eintracht and the "Blue Angel" with Marlene Dietrich.
It all started when a Nazi demagogue was expelled from Frankfurt.
In between, Ringelnatz performed in the Martinibar, which was located on Mainzer Landstrasse.
Tucholsky regretted the willingness to compromise everywhere and the gap between "ideal and reality".
In Frankfurt it looked like this: In 1923, the residents of Rothschildallee founded an “emergency community” in the Glauburg School to provide the poorest of the poor with potatoes and bread.
At the same time, cabaret was flourishing, and yet Tucholsky still lets Anna Luise's laundry rustle under the mountain ash.
Each of the three performers gets ravishing solo performances, earning well-deserved extra applause at the premiere.
Ulrike Kinbach, for example, for her act as a girl who has stumbled: "I've given you my new job at Tietz" by Erich Einegg.
El Sigal - in an enchanting outfit by Salima Abardouch - was celebrated for Tucholsky's "Hawa-i" song with music by Hanns Eisler.
Tucholsky, Friedrich Hollaender and Walter Mehring dominate the program anyway.
Erich Kästner sounded like a prophet: "Do you know the land where the guns flourish?" In between, Neumeyer chased his wild thirst motif over the keys and promptly received freshly filled glasses.
Principal Quast, on the other hand, made a big appearance with a Schizo-Conférence by Fritz Grünbaum: "I'm confering myself." But also with Mehring's aggressive rhyme from culture to "dressage": Well roared, lion in pinstripes.
"Lights out, knives out!", next performances on May 1st at 5 p.m. and on May 20th and June 3rd at 7.30 p.m.