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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.
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.
Sophie Duvernoy has translated work by Sibylle Berg, Sabine Rennefanz, and Zora del Buono, and has written for the Los Angeles Review of Books, Thomson Reuters, and other publications. She is the winner of the 2015 Gutekunst Prize for young translators and is currently pursuing a PhD at Yale University.
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2019 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Romane & Erzählungen |
| Rubrik: | Belletristik |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Originaltitel: | Käsebier erobert den Kurfürstendamm |
| Inhalt: |
XVIII
286 S. |
| ISBN-13: | 9781681372723 |
| ISBN-10: | 168137272X |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Tergit, Gabriele |
| Übersetzung: | Duvernoy, Sophie |
| Hersteller: |
Random House LLC US
NYRB Classics |
| Maße: | 203 x 132 x 20 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Gabriele Tergit |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 30.07.2019 |
| Gewicht: | 0,315 kg |
Sophie Duvernoy has translated work by Sibylle Berg, Sabine Rennefanz, and Zora del Buono, and has written for the Los Angeles Review of Books, Thomson Reuters, and other publications. She is the winner of the 2015 Gutekunst Prize for young translators and is currently pursuing a PhD at Yale University.
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2019 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Romane & Erzählungen |
| Rubrik: | Belletristik |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Originaltitel: | Käsebier erobert den Kurfürstendamm |
| Inhalt: |
XVIII
286 S. |
| ISBN-13: | 9781681372723 |
| ISBN-10: | 168137272X |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Tergit, Gabriele |
| Übersetzung: | Duvernoy, Sophie |
| Hersteller: |
Random House LLC US
NYRB Classics |
| Maße: | 203 x 132 x 20 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Gabriele Tergit |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 30.07.2019 |
| Gewicht: | 0,315 kg |
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