Diseusen in der Weimarer Republik: Imagekonstruktionen im Kabarett am Beispiel von Margo Lion und Blandine Ebinger
2019; Oxford University Press; Volume: 37; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1093/gerhis/ghz011
ISSN1477-089X
Autores ResumoDanielczyk’s study of cabaret, revues and musical performances on the Weimar stage in pre-World War Two Germany is a serious and substantial contribution to a cultural-historical topic in which detailed analyses, theoretical interventions and gender-specific approaches are rather rare. Diseusen in der Weimarer Republik focuses on two female performers—Margo Lion and Blandine Ebinger—and reconstructs the multi-layered process of their respective star image formations by scrutinizing aspects of the production, distribution and reception of their shows. The diseuses have been heavily involved in the transfer of French Chansons as well as American popular culture into the German-speaking realm and are an intrinsic part of the rich entertainment scene of the Weimar Republic. The spotlight on these two figures is supposed to be a case study that is representative of the numerous female singers (chansonniers and diseuses) who were popular during the 1920s and early 1930s: Claire Waldorff, Maria Ney, Ilse Bois, Trude Hesterberg, Trude Berliner, Gussy Holl, Käte Erlholz and others. Yet the question remains: Why Margo Lion and Blandine Ebinger? In addition to Margo Lion being one of the most recognizable cabaret performer of the Weimar Republic, it seems to me that the abundance of easily accessible archival material about these two artists (at the Akademie der Künste Berlin and the Stiftung Deutsches Kabarettarchiv Mainz) in comparison to the relative dearth of such collections about the other singers may have ultimately determined the choice. Indeed, this monograph demonstrates a superb grasp of the ample original material presented in numerous publications in the contemporaneous German press. In addition, the author is well acquainted with the scholarly secondary literature on the cabaret, performance and media theory.
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