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Gorgeous, archival photographs of shows and architecture combined with authentic recordings bring the roaring twenties in Berlin to life in this stunning coffee table book and 4-CD collection. From Kurt Tucholsky to Marlene Dietrich: authors, composers and performers present an intimate view to a riotously comic and tragic era. No cultural history would be complete without the hit songs composed by Ralph Benatzky, Werner Richard Heymann, Friedrich Hollaender, Rudolf Nelson, and Mischa Spoliansky; presented here on four CDs that also include wonderful archival recordings of Marlene Dietrich, Curt Bois, The Comedian Harmonists, Trude Hesterberg, and Margo Lion. Life is a cabaret, and this book is an unsurpassed celebration of that era of incredible musical performance. [editor summary]