To accompany this year's "Frankfurt Reads a Book 2018" festival, which revolves around Anna Seghers' novel "The Seventh Cross", Jo van Nelsen has put together this new gramophone reading. Anna Seghers novel begins with the escape of seven prisoners from the Westhofen concentration camp - very few of the inmates succeeded. To create a bit of normality and distraction even in these places of horror, the unbelievable happened: Cabaret in the concentration camp! Whether in Westerbork or Theresienstadt - many of the imprisoned entertainment stars of the Weimar Republic also performed here - sometimes secretly, sometimes on order. In a gramophone reading, Frankfurt music cabaret artist Jo van Nelsen makes this piece of almost forgotten, because problematic, cultural history visible again. He will tell of the fates of many imprisoned artists (such as Isa Vermehren, Willy Rosen, Paul O'Montis, Kurt Gerron, and others), read their texts, sing their songs, and play from shellac records. Another evening against forgetting.
Text source and more information about this event: http://www.frankfurter-buergerstiftung.de/node/2508
