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Käsebier takes Berlin / Gabriele Tergit ; translated from the German by Sophie Duvernoy.
Van Pelt Library PT2635.E453 K313 2019
By Request
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tergit, Gabriele, author.
- Series:
- New York Review Books classics
- Standardized Title:
- Käsebier erobert den Kurfürstendamm. English
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Singers--Fiction.
- Singers.
- Berlin (Germany)--Fiction.
- Berlin (Germany).
- Germany--Berlin.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Satirical literature.
- Satire.
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 283 pages ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New York Review Books, [2019]
- Summary:
- "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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Tergit, Gabriele. Käsebier takes Berlin.
- ISBN:
- 9781681372723
- 168137272X
- OCLC:
- 1043050540
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