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Kurt Tucholsky, Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill, Friedrich Hollaender, Claire Waldoff: they were all major figures in Berlin's cultural life. It was wild, it was queer, it was Jewish. Then the National Socialists came to power. Anyone who thought - and sang! - was systematically driven out of the country. Those who could, fled into uncertain exile.

The actress and politician Anne Helm sings a tribute to the musicians of a time when political songs became a place of inner freedom. In her 60-minute program, she ranges from the Threepenny Opera and lively cabaret songs of the Weimar era to anti-fascist resistance songs and Hanns Eisler's wistful words about exile: "And I will no longer see the land from which I came."

Anne Helm is accompanied by Marcel Weller on the guitar. With their direct and simple interpretation, the two give the songs a great topicality and closeness.