{"product_id":"kasebier-takes-berlin","title":"Käsebier Takes Berlin","description":"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 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.","brand":"Buchserien.de","offers":[{"title":"Neuware","offer_id":53792415875410,"sku":"9781681372723","price":16.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0615\/7002\/3593\/files\/unnamed_37748669-8a0c-4b93-af92-4ef41678195c.jpg?v=1781817444","url":"https:\/\/www.buchserien.de\/products\/kasebier-takes-berlin","provider":"Buchserien.de","version":"1.0","type":"link"}