{"product_id":"kasebier-takes-berlin-von-gabriele-tergit","title":"Käsebier Takes Berlin","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn English for the first time, a panoramic satire about the star-making machine, set in celebrity-obsessed Weimar Berlin.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn Käsebier Takes Berlin, the journalist Gabriele Tergit wrote a searing satire of the excesses and follies of the Weimar Republic. Chronicling a country on the brink of fascism and a press on the edge of collapse, Tergit's novel caused a sensation when it was published in 1931. As witty as Kurt Tucholsky and as trenchant as Karl Kraus, Tergit portrays a world too entranced by fireworks to notice its smoldering edges.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9781681372723\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Libri","offers":[{"title":"Softcover - 9781681372723","offer_id":39418229391453,"sku":"9781681372723","price":16.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/c884a572-f461-42a3-b3db-fa1ca7522de8.jpg?v=1781929558","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/en\/products\/kasebier-takes-berlin-von-gabriele-tergit","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}