Peter Jelavich (135 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good. Step into Ernst Wolzogen's Motley Theater, Max Reinhardt's Sound and Smoke, Rudolf Nelson's Chat noir, and Friedrich Hollaender's Tingel-Tangel. Enjoy Claire Waldoff's rendering of a lower-class Berliner, Kurt Tucholsky's satirical songs, and Walter Mehring's Dadaist experiments, as Peter Jelavich spotlights Berlin's cabarets from the day the curtain first went up, in 1901, until the Nazi regime brought it down. Fads and fashions, sexual mores and political ideologies - all were subject to satire and parody on the cabaret stage. This book follows the changing treatment of these themes, and the fate of cabaret itself, through the most turbulent decades of modern German history: the prosperous and optimistic Imperial age, the unstable yet culturally inventive Weimar era, and the repressive years of National Socialism. By situating cabaret within Berlin's rich landscape of popular culture and distinguishing it from vaudeville and variety theaters, spectacular revues, prurient nude dancing, and Communist agitprop, Jelavich revises the prevailing image of this form of entertainment. Neither highly politicized, like postwar German Kabarett, nor sleazy in the way that some American and European films suggest, Berlin cabaret occupied a middle ground that let it cast an ironic eye on the goings-on of Berliners and other Germans. However, it was just this satirical attitude toward serious themes, such as politics and racism, that blinded cabaret to the strength of the radical right-wing forces that ultimately destroyed it. Jelavich concludes with the Berlin cabaret artists' final performances - as prisoners in the concentration camps at Westerbork and Theresienstadt. This book gives us a senseof what the world looked like within the cabarets of Berlin and at the same time lets us see, from a historical distance, these lost performers enacting the political, sexual, and artistic issues that made their city one of the most dynamic in Europe.…

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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Stiff color illus. wraps. 312 pp., illus. in color, b&w. Two stress creases along firm, square binding, otherwise minor shelf wear. 1st ptg. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Book.

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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Torn/worn dj. Good hardcover with some shelfwear; may have previous owner's name inside. Standard-sized.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. 403pp. Purple cloth hardback, DJ has minor wear and tiny tears at spine edges and corner tips, index, b&w photos and illustrations, Examines the commercial, political and cultural tensions that fostered the artistic revolt against classical and realistic modes of 19th century drama.…

Softcover, 262 pages; very good condition; crease to spine; no internal marks. Foreign shipping may be extra.

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Condition: VG+ wraps. 1st trade pbk. 8vo. 322pp. P O name scribbled out.

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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1996. Softcover, 336 pp. 1st softcover edition (stated). A study of Berlin's early to mid- 20th century cabarets, their performers and the people who frequented them. With black & white photo illustrations. Very good condition with light surface flaking to the final index page.…

Subtle and small owner's personal stamp to bottom of block, barely noticed. Fine and bright glossy stiff wraps with excellent square spine and crisp bright text throughout.

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First printing (complete number line) hardcover in excellent condition (unmarked, slight handling), with good dust jacket (a few small tears and chips along upper edge). DJ protected by a clear, removeable cover. 403 pages. [1.6 lbs]. Book. …

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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. FIRST THUS. First Edition Thus, Third Printing. Not price-clipped. Published by Harvard University Press, 1993. Octavo. Paperback. Book is very good. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.…

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Paperback. First edition, first printing. Near Fine paperback with light traces of shelf wear. BOOKS SHIP THE NEXT BUSINESS DAY, WRAPPED IN PADDING, IN A BOX. The catalogue for an exhibition of Wassily Kandinsky's work, focusing on the years he spent in Munich. Essays by Peter Jelavich and Peg Weiss. 312 pages; 369 works listed and annotated, 310 of those illustrated in color and b&w + 44 text illustrations; 8.5 x 10 inches. Chronology, bibliography, index. From an unnumbered edition limited to 10,000 copies. LAID-IN is a Guggenheim publication with an article about a 2010 Kandinsky exhibition. Due to size and weight, international and expedited shipping will be more than quoted.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. Very good condition.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Good - Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name - GOOD Standard-sized.

Condition: Very Good-. Location:255 sfep 255.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Mark as a Review Copy.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. xii, 322pp. bw photos, ports. reproductions. Photo illustrated wrapper is clean and without wear. Binding square and not creased. From the Studies in Cultural History series. First Harvard University Press paperback edition, 1996, stated.