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Martin Zickel, Friedrich Kayssler and Max Reinhardt , 1901

Schall und Rauch is the name of a literary cabaret in Berlin that was founded in 1901 by Max Reinhardt , among others . Since the end of January 1902 it was nicknamed the Small Theater .

Emergence

In a pub in the Berlin suburbs, poets like Christian Morgenstern , painters, musicians and actors, especially from the German theater , met regularly for a regulars' table called “Die Brille” , where people can enjoy conversation and drink out of pure “fun in joy” literary chansons, humorous literary miniatures and scenes, even whole parodic one-act plays. Max Reinhardt - at that time still a young, aspiring director - came up with the idea of ​​presenting the resulting showcase pieces to the public. For this purpose, a literary cabaret was founded. The name Schall und Rauch supposedly came about because one couldn't think of anything else and, according to Goethe, the name is “Schall und Rauch”.

opening

The successful opening program of the Schall und Rauch cabaret took place in the spring of 1901 in Berlin's Bellevuestrasse and consisted, among other things, of the Don Carlos trilogy at the turn of the century , namely three parodies of Friedrich von Schiller's play Don Karlos - along with the highlight Don Carlos on the Schmiere became in the other two versions the style of Maeterlinck and Gerhart Hauptmann is parodied - and an atmospheric picture from a theater rehearsal The directors' college from the pen of Max Reinhardt.

In addition to Max Reinhardt himself, z. B. Friedrich Kayssler , Martin Zickel , Else Heims and Richard Vallentin participate in the program.

First season

Small theater, interior view with seating (1912)

After a few more performances in Bellevuestrasse, which the audience literally flocked to, the cabaret got its permanent seat from October 1901 in a hall of the Viktoria Hotel Unter den Linden , the floor of which offered four hundred seats.

Already in the season 1902 / 1903 was from the cabaret smoke and mirrors , the Little Theater . Reinhardt continued it as a pure theater.

Post fame

The Schall und Rauch cabaret has remained a household name to this day, although as an independent cabaret stage it only delighted the Berlin audience for one season and even during this period it was increasingly distancing itself from the parody and coming closer to the theater.

Advertisement of the new sound and smoke, March 26, 1920

In the basement of Max Reinhardt's Great Playhouse, however, a new Schall und Rauch was later set up, in which artists such as Werner Richard Heymann , Friedrich Hollaender , Kurt Tucholsky , Klabund , Walter Mehring , Mischa Spoliansky , Joachim Ringelnatz and Blandine Ebinger had the opportunity to perform cabaret operate.

Thomas Mann classified the brief era of smoke and mirrors after Reinhardt's death as follows: “At the beginning of the rebirth of the theater from the spirit of the theater stood the parody. We young people in Munich, members of an academic-dramatic association to whom the Reinhardt people played their Don Carlos parody, laughed tears. "

From the early 1960s, the Telefunken record company dedicated a whole series of records to Reinhardt's cabaret called Schall & Rauch , in which well-known actors such as B. Theo Lingen and Heinz Reincke re-enacted chansons, parodies and pieces from the Schall und Rauch programs.

Discography, notes (incomplete)

  • Affair after grades. Sound and smoke 1 DECCA
  • Friedrich Hollaender: Sound and smoke. Songs and chansons (of cabaret), singing, piano. Grades. Schott Music ISBN 9790001074889 , ED 7147
  • All of Madrid is under water. Sound & Smoke 2
  • While at this source. Sound & Smoke 5
  • Berlinish. Sound & Smoke 6
  • Big ports, little girls. Sound & Smoke 12
  • Cheers meal. Sound & Smoke 13
  • The tear shines quietly in the eye. Sound & Smoke 14
  • Piquants in plush. Sound & Smoke 20
  • It was in the air. Sound & Smoke 21
  • Hey Hello! Schall & Rauch 1919

literature

  • Walter Mehring: Schall und Rauch: Simply classic. An oresty with a happy ending. A Puppet Show Fürstner, Berlin 1919. Illustrations by George Grosz ; the cover and 3 dolls by Grosz and John Heartfield
    • again: Der Morgen, Berlin 1985
    • 2nd edition in the series Forgotten Authors of Modernism # 16. Ed. & Epilogue Didier Plassard. University of Siegen 1987
  • Peter Sprengel , Permitted and Forbidden: Play Texts of the first Max Reinhardt Cabaret (Berlin 1901/02) / Schall und Rauch , Berlin: Nicolai, 1991 ISBN 3-87584-386-X
  • Schall und Rauch (reprint of 13 programs from December 1919 to February 1921. With an afterword by Kurt Wafner ). Book publisher der Morgen, Berlin, 1985

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heinrich Huesmann: World Theater Reinhardt. Buildings, venues, productions . Prestel Verlag, Munich 1983, p. 89.

Web links

Commons : Schall und Rauch  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files