Saturday, 10/12/2024
from 7:30 PM to 10:00 PM


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Jo van Nelsen reads, sings, and is accompanied by gramophone music and image presentation.
Concentration camps - places of horror... However, to create a sense of normality and distraction, the unbelievable happened: cabaret in the concentration camps!
Whether in Sachsenhausen, Westerbork, or Theresienstadt - many of the incarcerated entertainment stars of the Weimar Republic also performed here - sometimes secretly, sometimes by order.
The Frankfurt music cabaret artist Jo van Nelsen brings this almost forgotten, because problematic, cultural history back to life in a gramophone reading. In his presentation, he will tell the stories of many incarcerated artists (such as Isa Vermehren, Willy Rosen, Paul O´Montis, Kurt Gerron, and others), read their texts, sing their songs, and play from shellac records.
Rare images and film material make this gramophone reading a thrilling journey through time and a multimedia experience.
An evening against forgetting and for remembering, in which, despite the tragic background, there is much to laugh about - because the authors and performers presented were masters of their craft!

Doors open: 6:30 PM

Event data provided by: Reservix

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