Berlin in the year 1928... The new programme takes a plunge into the vibrant world of the Weimar Republic. The year 1928 as a point of culmination stands both for a heyday and the beginning of the end of those lively, most creative, and somewhat mad times.
"Berlin in the lights" - The new technological achievement of the electric street lights illumines a colourful nightlife, which is presented in song here of course from a woman’s view.
The shadier places of ‘low-life Berlin’ is where the uppity songs of Claire Waldoff have their home, like "Gee, how stupid menfolk are". And in the cosy lamplights of his allotment garden, the Berlin native muses about "What does a Berliner need to be happy?"
"But those in the dark nobody sees" – It is, however, also the year of the biting "Threepenny Opera", which seems so much at odds with the times and their light-hearted merriment of music hall ditties. Because before darkness falls on Europe, people try one more time to dance the night away.
Taking on different roles on her walk through a world of murky backyard life and the glitter of the vaudeville palace, Carolina Stefani opens up a panoramic view of an era that after 80 years still keeps us fascinated. She is accompanied by salon musician Wolfgang ‘Hugo’ Scholz on flute, saxophone and percussion, and by Hartmut Schmidt on melodeon and piano.