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La Risa Nos Hara Libres: Comicos En Los Campos Nazis: 140 (Libertad y cambio) - Softcover

Ottai, Antonella

 
9788417835613: La Risa Nos Hara Libres: Comicos En Los Campos Nazis: 140 (Libertad y cambio)

Synopsis

A gripping and dizzying work that reconstructs the history and fate of some Jewish comedians who, in the 1930s, gave Central European cabaret and show business, and in particular the Berlin show business, its legendary greatness. The fate of these artists was inexorably cut short by Hitler's rise to power. Expelled from the stages they had dominated, confined to ghettos or deported to extermination camps, Jewish comedians continued to perform under increasingly dramatic and Kafkaesque conditions. Comedy was not only an obligation but a real necessity, since in order to survive they had to entertain and make their tormentors laugh. The personal journeys of Kurt Gerron, Max Ehrlich and Paul Morgan, among others, thus become an opportunity to reflect on humor and resilience, and the theater of the absurd. They also provide new information and perspectives on a little-known chapter of the Shoah and the culture of the 20th century.

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