Käsebier takes Berlin /

Käsebier takes Berlin /

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Author / Creator:	Tergit, Gabriele, author.
Uniform title:	Käsebier erobert den Kurfürstendamm. English
Imprint:	New York : New York Review Books, [2019]
Description:	xviii, 283 pages ; 21 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	New York Review Books classics New York Review Books classics.
Subject:	Singers -- Fiction. Berlin (Germany) -- Fiction. Germany -- Berlin. Satire. Fiction. Satire. Satirical fiction. Novels.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12595153

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Other authors / contributors:	Duvernoy, Sophie, translator.
ISBN:	9781681372723 168137272X
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references.
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"--
Other form:	Online version: Tergit, Gabriele. Käsebier takes Berlin. New York : New York Review Books, [2019] 9781681372730

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