From chanson to musical: wonderful evergreens, chansons and poems by the brilliant Berlin poet Robert Gilbert
From chanson to musical: wonderful evergreens, chansons & poems. An encounter with the brilliant Berlin poet Robert Gilbert - with "Chanson-Nette" Jeannette Urzendowsky, Henry Nandzik and the Ukrainian-Russian trio Scho. Gennady Desatnik on violin and guitar; Valeriy Khoryshman on accordion; Alexander Franz on double bass. Directed by Isabelle Gensior.
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Everyone knows his hits, but hardly anyone knows him: the Berlin chanson and cabaret poet Robert Gilbert (1899-1978).
“A friend, a good friend”, “It's so young when Spain's blossoms bloom”, “Oh my papa”, “That's only once, it'll never come again”, “Stempellied, song of the unemployed”, “Through Berlin the Spree is still flowing” – to this day his chansons and rhymes carry the sound of Berlin of the 20s, early 30s and post-war years out into the world.
Robert Gilbert wrote texts with inexhaustible wit, with depth and cabaret tips against inhuman stupidity. He worked closely with the composer Werner Richard Heymann, but also with Ralph Benatzky, Hanns Eisler, Hermann Leopoldi and Robert Stolz.
"I would have danced tonight" is also a musical-cabaret evening against forgetting.
Why? The success of chansons and cabaret in Germany in the 1920s and early 1930s would be unthinkable without Gilbert and many other artists with Jewish roots. But from 1933 they were persecuted, the genre of the chanson, the "intelligent song", was destroyed. We would like to remind you of that. "Chanson-Nette" Jeannette Urzendowsky is honorary ambassador of the German Cabaret Archive.
Robert Gilbert remained true to the Berlin dialect even in exile and was a pointed observer of his time: "It's important to complain, anyone can be nice".
Additional information
We also accept reservations at the mobile number 0171-4178376 or by mail: info@chanson-nette.de.
More information about the program can be found on the website www.chanson-nette.de.
Have you ever met the Jewish Culture Ship MS Goldberg? www.goldberg-theaterschiff.de
Website of the Förderkreis Denkmal für die ermordeten Juden Europas e.V.: www.holocaust-denkmal-berlin.de.
How to get to the ship: The MS Goldberg is located on the banks of the Havel River in Berlin-Spandau, directly between Sedanstrasse and Dischinger Brücke/Ruhlebener Strasse, about a 10-minute walk from the U-Bhf. Rathaus Spandau and S-Bhf. Berlin-Spandau.
Participating artists
"Chanson-Nette" Jeannette Urzendowsky
Henry Nandzik
Gennadij Desatnik (Geige)
Valeriy Khoryshman (Akkordeon)
Alexander Franz (Kontrabass)
Isabelle Gensior (Regie)
