Weimar cabaret

Bavarian comedian, cabaret performer, clown, author and film producer (1882–1948)

German actor (1902-1978)

Austrian actor and writer (1893–1971)

Austrian cabaret artist, art collector and Holocaust victim (1880–1941)

Dutch writer (1897–1998)

Kabarett (; from French cabaret = tavern) is satirical revue, a form of cabaret which was developed in France by Rodolphe Salis in 1881 as the cabaret artistique. It was named Le Chat Noir and was centered on political events and satire. It later inspired creation of Kabarett venues in Germany from 1901, with the creation of Berlin's Überbrettl venue and in Austria with the creation of the Jung-Wiener Theater zum lieben Augustin housed in the Theater an der Wien. By the Weimar era in the mid-1920s it was characterized by political satire and gallows humor. It shared the characteristic atmosphe

thumb|300px|Überbrettl in 1901 on Alexanderstraße Überbrettl (; English: ) was the first venue in Germany for literary cabaret, or Kabarett, founded 1901 in Berlin by Ernst von Wolzogen. The German Kabarett concept was imported from French venues like Le Chat Noir in Paris, from which it kept the characteristic atmosphere of intimacy. But the German type developed its own peculiarities, most prominently its characteristic gallows humour.