Bookworms

The bookworms were an amateur cabaret from Potsdam in Brandenburg .

history

The bookworms were created in 1974 as a student cabaret for the youth library club at the scientific general library of the Potsdam district. The ensemble founded by Ronald Gohr and Konstanze Langer started in GDR times in 1974 with the program This is us - scenes from club life . The cabaret, which “brought some things over the ramp with a disrespectful wink that others didn't even dare to think”, also performed in clubs and cultural centers in the Potsdam district. With the Potstausend program - we're punctual! In 1988, the ensemble heralded the celebrations for the 1000th anniversary of the founding of Potsdam. In “mocking sketches ”, the bookworms targeted the state of urban development in the city center and in the new building districts on the outskirts. Shortly before the fall of the Wall in 1989, the Potsdam Polit-Puree was performed.

Even after the fall of the Wall, the bookworms presented political cabaret. The first programs were titled On the Bund - A Show of Illusions (1990) or Black as Power (1993). For the 30th anniversary, the “outstanding folk art collective” played, according to the Potsdam Latest News, “believable, immediate, even cheeky”.

literature

Frank Rawel: Aphid meets lacewing larvae: Texts for the cabaret "Die Buchwürmer" , Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2009, ISBN 978-3-8370-9148-9

Rosemarie Spatz: Cabaret "The Bookworms" of the Scientific General Library Potsdam. In: City library as a place of communication: 34th Loccumer Kulturpolitisches Kolloquium , Evang. Akad. Loccum, Rehburg-Loccum 1992, ISBN 3-8172-5391-5 , pp. 83-89

Web links

buecherwuermer.info (no longer available, archived version from May 2013 [1] )

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b BuB: Forum for Library and Information , Volume 54, p. 554; limited preview in Google Book search
↑ Gisela Heller : Potsdam Stories . Arani-Verlag, Berlin 1993, ISBN 978-3-7605-8650-2 , p. 43
Jump up ↑ Library Information Service , Volume 18, 1988, p. 27
↑ Börsenblatt Vol. 156, Part 1, 1989, p. 96
↑ Jutta Braun, Peter Ulrich Weiß: In the crack of two epochs: Potsdam in the 1980s and early 1990s. be.bra Wissenschaft Verlag, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-95410-240-2 , p. 234
↑ Self-designation according to the homepage "The Bookworms" ( Memento from May 9, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) (menu item What was? )
↑ Gerold Paul: "Das Ding vor'm Koffer": "Die Buchwürmer" are convincing as a political cabaret even in their 30th year , Potsdamer Latest News , September 6, 2005, accessed on April 29, 2019.

[BuB-1] A ^b BuB: Forum for Library and Information , Volume 54, p. 554; limited preview in Google Book search

[2] Gisela Heller : Potsdam Stories . Arani-Verlag, Berlin 1993, ISBN 978-3-7605-8650-2 , p. 43

[3] Jump up ↑ Library Information Service , Volume 18, 1988, p. 27

[4] Börsenblatt Vol. 156, Part 1, 1989, p. 96

[5] Jutta Braun, Peter Ulrich Weiß: In the crack of two epochs: Potsdam in the 1980s and early 1990s. be.bra Wissenschaft Verlag, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-95410-240-2 , p. 234

[6] Self-designation according to the homepage "The Bookworms" ( Memento from May 9, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) (menu item What was? )

[7] Gerold Paul: "Das Ding vor'm Koffer": "Die Buchwürmer" are convincing as a political cabaret even in their 30th year , Potsdamer Latest News , September 6, 2005, accessed on April 29, 2019.