Middle piece
The so-called center piece is a form of political theater and cabaret. It was defined for the first time by Rudolf Weys in the mid-1930s as a new genre of Viennese cabaret in Austria and was chosen by Jura Soyfer , an Austrian anti-fascist satirist, as a form to significantly modernize and further develop cabaret.
The name Mittelstück alludes to the position as a combination of theater and cabaret . Rudolf Weys was a co-founder of the renowned cabaret “ Literatur am Naschmarkt ” and later the in-house author of “ Wiener Werkel ”.
development
Based on the worker's piece of the 19th century and the agitprop piece of the 20s, cabaret was developed from a series of individual pieces and the revue theater in the 20th century to a serious art form. Names of authors who contributed significantly to the development of this new art form:
literature
- Cabaret in resistance. The “Wiener Werkel” , dissertation by Manfred Lang, 1967.