Käsebier takes Berlin

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Zusammenfassung: "In English for the first time, a biting satirical novel about an untalented, self-delusioned celebrity who seduces all of Weimar Berlin. In Berlin, 1930, the name Kasebier is on everyone's lips. A literal combination of the German words for "cheese" and "beer," it's an unglamorous name for an unglamorous man--a small-time crooner who performs nightly on a shabby stage for laborers, secretaries, and shopkeepers. Until the press shows up. In the blink of an eye, this everyman is made a star: a star who can sing songs for a troubled time. Margot Weissmann, the arts patron, hosts champagne breakfasts for Kasebier; Muschler the banker builds a theater in his honor; Willi Frachter, a parvenu writer, makes a mint off Kasebier-themed business ventures and books. All the while, the journalists who catapulted Kasebier to fame watch the monstrous media machine churn in amazement--and are aghast at the demons they have unleashed. In Kasebier Takes Berlin, the journalist Gabriele Tergit wrote a searing satire of the excesses and follies of the Weimar Republic. Chronicling a country on the brink of fascism and a press on the edge of collapse, Tergit's novel caused a sensation when it was published in 1931. As witty as Kurt Tucholsky and as trenchant as Karl Kraus, Tergit portrays a world too entranced by fireworks to notice its smoldering edges"--(Provided by publisher.)

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• Alternative title: Käsebier erobert den Kurfürstendamm
• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• ISBN: 9781681372723 ; 168137272X ; 9781681372730 ; 1681372738
• Dimensions: 21 cm
• Extent: xviii, 283 Seiten
• Language: Englisch

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Deutsche Literatur
• Keyword: Geschichte 1925 ; Volkssänger ; Sozialer Aufstieg ; Überforderung ; Berlin

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (where): New York
• (who): New York Review Books
• (when): [2019]
• Creator: Tergit, Gabriele
• Contributor: Duvernoy, Sophie

Further information

• Table of contents: https://d-nb.info/1199620351/04
• Rights: Bei diesem Objekt liegt nur das Inhaltsverzeichnis digital vor. Der Zugriff darauf ist unbeschränkt möglich.