ACH JOTT, WAT SIND DIE MÄNNER DUMM!

GUEST PERFORMANCE

"Ach Jott, wat sind die Männer dumm!"
A rendezvous with Claire Waldoff

With: Jeannette Urzendowsky alias Chanson-Nette (acting, vocals) and Tal Balshai (piano)

Jeannette Urzendowsky alias Chanson-Nette, known from "Ich hätt' getanzt heut Nacht" and "Warum nur hold und schön und rein...?" on this very stage, is a true Berliner from the Friedrichshain neighbourhood. Together with Tal Balshai at the piano, she takes the audience back to the era when Claire Waldoff became a legend.

Even in the late imperial period, "die Waldoff" was regarded as an icon of the unconventional. "Raus mit den Männern aus'm Reichstag" - she belted that out in the mid-1920s, singing about feminism and free love before most others dared. She was celebrated as a rebel, a cabaret queen and a Berlin street kid - despite originally hailing from Gelsenkirchen.

The programme features chansons such as "Ach Jott, wat sind die Männer dumm!", "Die Großstadtpflanze" and "Das Dornröschen vom Wedding", woven together with stories from Waldoff's life - a life that changed fundamentally with the rise of National Socialism. A tribute that doubles as an evening against forgetting.