In the organizer's words:

Jo van Nelsen - BLICK ZURÜCK DURCHS SCHLÜSSELLOCH
Frivolous chansons between love lust and paragraph frustration

Brilliantly entertaining, this evening roams through German moral history. (...) Jo van Nelsen is good at celebrating this, his smoothness all round, in song and appearance, is exceptional. (Frankfurter Rundschau, 16.09.2024)
On the occasion of his 35th stage anniversary, Jo van Nelsen remembers the singer who sparked his love of chanson and literary cabaret: Helen Vita. With her "Cheeky chansons from old France", she caused a storm of indignation in 1963, but also of sexual liberation. These songs, which were sung in the first cabarets in Paris' Montmartre in the 1880s, are still fascinating today in Walter Brandin's clever German translations with their brilliant lightness and hearty humor.
The German public prosecutor's office banned the Helen Vita records 27 times - but the sexual revolution of the 1960s was long since unstoppable. So this program is also a reflection on censorship in Germany with many funny examples from the early days of cabaret, including a revival after more than 100 years. But "Looking back through the keyhole" also looks at the frivolous pop lyrics of the 1920s and 30s and the bigotry of the 40s and 50s. And with Brecht and Kästner, two writers with whom Helen Vita worked are also represented.
Jo van Nelsen takes up arms against the new prudery, as Helen Vita once did (...). In times of woken wretchedness and gendering, he contextualizes his chansons accordingly (and has thought of) a trigger warning so as not to traumatize his audience priapistically. (F.A.Z., 16.09.2024)
An all-round enjoyable evening with witty lyrics, lively music and no fig leaf at all. Against the new puritianism and for the desire for diversity. Trigger buzzer included!

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Price information:

B.O. 23,- €/ 19,- € (reduced) / VVK 19,- € / 15,- € (reduced) (+fees).