Käsebier conquers the Kurfürstendamm

Käsebier conquers the Kurfürstendamm is the debut novel by the writer and journalist Gabriele Tergit . The novel was published by Rowohlt Verlag in 1931 and was a bestseller. "The book immediately made the author famous."

content

Käsebier conquers the Kurfürstendamm is about the rise and fall of the popular singer Georg Käsebier from Hasenheide in Berlin . The action takes place towards the end of the Weimar Republic . The press and culture industry in the German capital is portrayed. It focuses on the newspaper Berliner Rundschau . The writer Otto Lambeck dedicates one article to cheese beer . The reporting made the Berlin entertainment industry aware of the folk singer. In the wake of the article, cheese beer, the subject of the novel's title, becomes the object of an unprecedented marketing offensive. At the end of the novel, superstar Georg Käsebier , who was once celebrated on Kurfürstendamm , falls back into insignificance; "(...) the cheese beer is dead."

style

Stylistically, the novel is assigned to the New Objectivity .

expenditure

posthumously

• 1997: Arani , Berlin, ISBN 978-3-76058-606-9 .
• 2010: Edition Berliner Musenkinder, Berlin, ISBN 978-3-93712-717-0 .
• 2016: Schöffling & Co. , Frankfurt am Main, ISBN 978-3-89561-484-2 .

Audio book

• 2010: Audio book version and direction: Volker Kühn . Duo-phon records. 2 CDs, ISBN 978-3-937127-17-0 .
• 2016: Direction and editing: Gerwig Epkes . Speaker: Ilja Richter . DAV 1mp3-CD ISBN 978-3-7424-0912-6

literature

• Wiebke Hugen: The relationship between work and love in Irmgard Keun's “Gilgi - one of us” and Gabriele Tergit's “Käsebier conquers the Kurfürstendamm”. GRIN, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-656-33226-8 .
• Claudia Madaus: The women's literature of the Weimar Republic between Vicki Baum and Irmgard Keun : using the example of Gabriele Tergit's novel “Käsebier conquers the Kurfürstendamm” (1931) . Master's thesis in literary studies, University of Hamburg, 1988.
• Liane Schüller: On the seriousness of distraction - women who wrote at the end of the Weimar Republic: Marieluise Fleißer, Irmgard Keun and Gabriele Tergit. Aisthesis Verlag, Bielefeld 2005, ISBN 3-89528-506-4 .

Web links

• Christina Ujma: Hail and victory and fat booty. Gabriele Tergit's novel “Käsebier conquers the Kurfürstendamm” in the original version. At literaturkritik.de , accessed on January 14, 2020.
• Oliver Pfohlmann: Book review: Käsebier conquers the Kurfürstendamm. Archive version of the WDR website, accessed on January 14, 2020.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Maike Albath : Berlin novel "Käsebier conquers the Kurfürstendamm" - literary big city symphony. Deutschlandfunk , May 29, 2016, accessed on January 14, 2020.
2. ↑ Gabriele Tergit: Cheese beer conquers the Kurfürstendamm. arani-Verlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-7605-8606-6 .