Käsebier Takes Berlin

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In English for the first time, a panoramic satire about the star-making machine, set in celebrity-obsessed Weimar Berlin.In Berlin, 1930, the name Käsebier is on everyone's lips. A literal combination of the German words for cheese and beer, it's an unglamorous name for an unglamorous man-a small-time crooner who performs nightly on a shabby stage for laborers, secretaries, and shopkeepers. Until the press shows up. In the blink of an eye, this everyman is made a star: a star who can sing songs for a troubled time. Margot Weissmann, the arts patron, hosts champagne breakfasts for Käsebier, Muschler the banker builds a theater in his honor, Willi Frächter, a parvenu writer, makes a mint off Käsebier-themed business ventures and books. All the while, the journalists who catapulted Käsebier to fame watch the monstrous media machine churn in amazement-and are aghast at the demons they have unleashed.In Käsebier Takes Berlin, the journalist Gabriele Tergit wrote a searing satire of...

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