EAN: 9781681372723

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In English for the first time a panoramic satire about the star-making machine set in celebrity-obsessed Weimar Berlin. In Berlin 1930 the name Käsebier 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 Käsebier Muschler the banker builds a theater in his honor Willi Frächter a parvenu writer makes a mint off Käsebier-themed business ventures and books. All the while the journalists who catapulted Käsebier to fame watch the monstrous media machine churn in amazement-and are aghast at the demons they have unleashed. In Käsebier 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.

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