Black fair
Schwarzer Jahrmarkt is a cabaret revue with the text and music by Günter Neumann . With the subtitle "A Revue of the Hour Zero" it was premiered in December 1947 at the Berlin cabaret Ulenspiegel . Under the direction of Carl-Heinz Schroth , Hans Deppe , Ann Höling , Bruni Löbel , Hubert von Meyerinck , Hans Nielsen , Werner Oehlschläger , Alexa von Porembsky , Tatjana Sais and Herbert Weißbach played and sang .
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Günter Neumann chose his title based on the term black market , which began to flourish immediately after the end of the Second World War . The 22 scenes take place in a fairground and depict the adversities that people were exposed to after 1945. In the sketches and songs , the viewer encounters contemporaries such as the homecomer , the man of the past or the average German gentleman Frequently . Neumann once again shows himself to be a skeptic and a warning about the development of post-war Germany.
Reviews
The Black Fair was received positively by both the public and the critics . The critic Friedrich Luft wrote in the Neue Zeitung on December 20, 1947 : The “Black Fair” surpasses everything that we have been able to see so far from the so-called light pen.
The Neue Zürcher Zeitung wrote on January 8, 1948: The “Ulenspiegel” has reached a climax in apt, often bitter joke, in relentless time satire, in bold criticism of East and West with its new sequence of scenes “Black Fair”, which was highlighted at the beginning of December. which will be hard to beat.
According to a report in Spiegel on January 8, 1948, the French playwright Jean-Paul Sartre had attended a performance of the black fair . According to the article, "even a Jean-Paul Sartre envied him [Neumann] for his ability to use words and music in an articulated manner and for his tenacity to hit the bull's eye with both."
On June 22, 1948, the Black Fair was staged for the 225th time.
Re-performance
Together with Tatjana Sais and under his direction, the then director of the stages of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck , Karl Vibach , set up the revue in 1974, which was able to achieve another great success. After the Lübeck premiere on February 24, 1974, it was also shown at the Hebbel Theater in Berlin with Angelika Milster from August 23, 1974, and in 1976 Vibach went on tour of Germany with the production.
Actors of the resumption in Lübeck were again Tatjana Sais as well as Edith Elsholtz , OE Hasse , Jo Herbst , Erik Ode , Uwe Paulsen , Günter Pfitzmann , Kurt Pratsch-Kaufmann and the Rosy-Singers . A studio recording of this production was released on LP in 1975.
Edith Elsholtz, Waltraud Hellmann , Jo Herbst, Angelika Milster and Reinhard Morowski played in Berlin under Vibach's direction .
Adaptations
Based on the Black Fair , Günter Neumann wrote the script for the film Berliner Ballade , which was released in 1948 with Gert Fröbe as the main actor. Originally, the film was also supposed to be given the title Schwarzer Jahrmarkt , but through proposals such as Deutscher Jahrmarkt and Berliner Straße 48 , an agreement was finally reached on Berlin Ballad .
On March 5, 1949, the then Northwest German Broadcasting Corporation broadcast a radio version of the Black Fair that lasted over an hour . Directed by Erik Ode, Carola Görlich , Sigrid Lagemann , Hans Leibelt , Georgia Lind , Erik Ode, Werner Oehlschläger, Ethel Reschke , Georg Thomalla and Herbert Weißbach sang and spoke . Olaf Bienert was the musical director.
literature
- Regina Stürickow: The islander does not lose his calm . Pp. 55-57, arani-Verlag, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-7605-8655-4
- Bryan T. van Sweringen: Cabaret artist on the frontline of the Cold War. Günter Neumann and political cabaret in the programming of the RIAS 1948–1968. Wissenschaftsverlag Rothe, Passau 1995, ISBN 3-927575-41-0
Publications
- Black fair . A review from the zero hour. With an introduction by Friedrich Luft, photos of the productions in the Cabaret Ulenspiegel (1947) and the Hebbel Theater (1974), as well as drawings by Erich Rauschenbach . (Text book), Berlin-Wannsee 1975, Lothar Blanvalet Verlag
- Black annual fair , studio recording of the Lübeck production, (LP), 1975, Phonogram , 6305 259
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f Regina Stürickow: The islander does not lose his calm . Pp. 55-57, arani-Verlag, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-7605-8655-4
- ↑ a b Text accompanying the record, 1975
- ^ Friedrich Luft on the new production in Berlin, printed in the booklet accompanying the 8-CD edition Günter Neumann und seine Insulaner , pp. 77–79, Bear Family Records, BCD 16005 HD