Oh God, what stupid are the men

Even during the imperial era, "Die Waldoff" was an icon of the unconventional.


Earlier than many others, she sang about feminism, free love, and the free life, not as a vamp, not for men's fantasies, but as a genuinely feminine and self-confident woman. Initially, she was considered a young rebel from Gelsenkirchen on the Lower Rhine; later, as a cabaret queen, she shaped the image of the cheeky Berlin brat.


"Chanson-Nette" Jeannette Urzendowsky is a "Berlin plant" from the Friedrichshain neighborhood. In a duo with Harry Ermer at the piano, she takes her audience back to the time when Claire became a legend. In doing so, she does not imitate her, but recalls in her own way the great comedienne, born in 1884, and her various facets and phases of life. Claire was youthful-tender, cheeky, tomboyish, self-confident and vulnerable. Many popular chansons and rarer songs from Claire Waldoff's repertoire are part of the program.


"Ach Jott, wat sind die Männer dumm!", "Die Großstadtpflanze", "Das Dornröschen vom Wedding" or "Raus mit den Männern aus dem Reichstag" fill this evening for all fans of Berlin humor. And of course Chanson-Nette tells many stories from Claire's life with her genuine Berlin mouth.Many of Claire Waldoffs cabinet pieces were created and performed by artists with Jewish roots, many of whom were persecuted by the Nazis after 1933. That is why the tribute to Claire Waldoff is also an “evening against forgetting.” This is particularly close to Jeannette Urzendowsky's heart: she is the honorary ambassador of the German Cabaret Archive. 


The Berliner Tagesspiegel writes about Chanson-Nette:"There are only a few artists who can embody a Berlin original so credibly."