Beschreibung
In Berlin, 1930, the name Käsebier is on everyone's lips. It's an unglamorous name for an unglamorous man - a small-time crooner who performs nightly on a shabby stage. Until the press shows up. In the blink of an eye, this everyman is made a star: one who can sing songs for a troubled time. But soon the journalists who catapulted Käsebier to fame are aghast at the demons they have unleashed. A satire set in celebrity-obsessed Weimar Berlin.
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Autorenportrait
Gabriele Tergit (1894-1982) was a novelist and reporter who rose to fame in 1931 with her first novel, Käsebier Takes Berlin. A group of SA-men tried to force their way into her home in 1933 after she criticised the Nazis; she fled first to Czechoslovakia and then to Palestine before settling in London. There, she worked on her colossal novel of generations of German-Jewish life, The Effingers (1951), and acted as secretary of the PEN Centre for German-language writers abroad.
