Café concert
The café concert , also known as caf'conc , café à chansons or cabarets à chansons , was a place with variety performances in France in the second half of the 19th century (and occasionally also in the 20th century) .
history
The café concerts were neither coffee houses like the Viennese coffee house nor real concert halls. They emerged from the café-chantants from around 1849 , but were much larger and had more sophisticated furnishings. While café-chantants were mostly bars for industrial workers, in which a simple wooden podium served as a stage for vocal performances and other entertainment, café-concerts were often in elongated halls with high stages and offered a variety of entertainment for a wide audience. The guests took drinks, smoked and turned to a stage program that comprised chansons , couplets , cabaret andAcrobatics changed - mostly accompanied by a small orchestra. Time-critical performances became less in the course of time, but erotic interludes gained increasing interest. At the end of the 19th century, the English term music hall increasingly replaced the term café-concert. The most famous café concerts in Paris included the Concert des Ambassadeurs , the Grand Concert Parisien (from 1910 Concert Mayol ), the Ba-Ta-Clan , the Eden , the Eldorado , the Scala , the Folies Bobino , and the Alcazar .
Numerous painters have captured scenes from the café concerts in their pictures. They include Honoré Daumier , Edgar Degas , Henri-Gabriel Ibels , Édouard Manet and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec .
literature
- Wieland Barthelmess : The Café Concert as a theme in French painting and graphics at the end of the 19th century . Berlin 1987, dissertation FU Berlin 1987
- Klaus Budzinski , Reinhard Hippen : Metzler Cabaret Lexicon . Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-476-01448-7 .
- François Caradec , Alain Weill : Le café-concert (1848-1914) . Fayard, Paris 2007, ISBN 978-2-213-63124-0 .
