The Berlin nightlife in the 1920s! Bubbly, free movement, avant-garde. Much of the time is now regarded as legendary. The comic opera can with the play “Tonight or Never” revive the Revue of the Weimar Republic. The rollers are striking, the show is easy and fun
Since lolls “die lesbian.” – Played by a man – in black velvet dress. He has put in water waves His hair, exaggerated eyebrows. “The Bonze” pushes the ruffled suit “the whore” money. And “the official” wants, “once I should like to have no worries.” The eccentric characters sing songs of Jewish-Russian composer Mischa Spoliansky (1898-1985).
Director Stefan Huber, the figures applied almost expressionistic. You were standing representative of social groups this time, says Huber. He staged for the Berlin stage already the operetta “Clivia”, also in the style of the past. He sees parallels between the 20s and early 30s to today.
This time experience again and again a renaissance. “I just believe that we are politically closer today,” he says. Even today there are upheavals and changes that would bring the political overwork and a great love of pleasure with it. “I think, because you need an outlet.” It should not be only the negative result of the Weimar Republic see, but also the creativity of the scene.
In the culture is repeatedly resorted to the epoch. Also currently. In the subway have some again Isherwood “Goodbye to Berlin” in hand, the book was a template for the film “Cabaret”. In the shops you see the rediscovered Roman “Käsebier conquered Kurfürstendamm” of Gabriele Tergit (1931).
And students of the University of the Arts developed just a walk, with which one can trace the old cafes of Berlin Bohème. Lecturer Paul Brodowsky says he does not know why the time is more present straight again. That was probably a desire to link to the Berlin before the Nazi period and prior to the division of Germany. . You feel an urge for urbanity and desire to experiment
Similarly, sees the historian Daniel Morat of the FU Berlin: “In the 1920s, Berlin was just the third largest city in the world, with a great nightlife” he says. “That we would have gladly again. But now we have Easyjet and Partytouristen. “What was that time was the Grand Hotel, is today the hostel.
In addition to the desire for pleasure cultural scientist Brodowsky sees yet another parallel. “It is, I believe many people realize that today we are in more political times life than in the 1980s.” He did not compare one to one that, but also in the Weimar Republic was violently been politically debated. Changes on the one hand, pleasure on the other, then?
The Komische Oper in any case provides the new Revue easy evening for switching off. Where there is a lack of real action, keep a Figures in line. On stage are about the cabaret trio “Geschwister Pfister” and actor Stefan Kurt. Conductor Kai Tietje sitting with the orchestra on the stage. If “the harlot” with her rump then something funny to “officials” pushes giggeln especially the older viewers.
Berlin celebrates with the piece of course itself. There are gags to Spandau (again giggles in the ranks). The songs of Spoliansky who fled later from the Nazis, but can be delightfully amusing. “If the best Freuuuundin, with the best Freuuundin” sang Marlene Dietrich. For the erotic dancer Anita Berber he wrote, according to the Komische Oper, the song “Morphine”. Anita Berber, as is now actually a nightclub in Berlin.
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