Die goldene Zeit der UFA

In the organizer's words:

A nostalgic and charming revue

The Ufa film and music industry and its dazzling stars shaped an era. A cheerful and state-sponsored art which, however, developed in a dark time, orchestrated as finely as nastily by Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels. He was aware that people needed a break from the daily war-mongering and Führer indoctrination, and that non-political entertainment was suitable for this. Music, operetta and revue films therefore experienced a real boom in the 1930s and 1940s. Lilian Harvey and Willy Fritsch, Marika Rökk and Johannes Heesters, Hans Albers, Ilse Werner and Zarah Leander offered audiences glitz and glamor. For a few hours, they made them forget that their world had fallen into ruins. But how does that fit together? Can real music and art be created under censorship? Even abuse can neither rob art of its character nor corrupt its innermost core.

Frenchwoman Marie Giroux and Canadian Joseph Schnurr, together with their accompanist Jenny Schäuffelen, offer a charming and nostalgic musical revue of the Ufa era and paint a portrait of an ambivalent epoch.

Price information:

PK1 22,00€ / PK2 20,00€ / PK3 18,00€ plus fees