HOMMAGE AN MASCHA KALÉKO

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Literature/biography with music

The actress Judith Jakob traces the life of the famous lyricist using her poems, diary entries and biographical writings.
She is accompanied on this lyrical-musical journey by pianist Joachim Jezewski. They present a touching tribute to a special woman.

She was an everyday poet, charming, cheeky, melancholy and always with ironic mockery. She was born in 1907 in Chrzanòw, Galicia. In 1914, the family emigrated to Germany and moved to Berlin after the First World War. At the end of the 1920s, Mascha Kaléko made friends in the circle of poets and writers at the "Romanisches Café", where she met Tucholsky and Claire Waldoff, among others, and was compared to Erich Kästner and the young Heinrich Heine. Her first book, "Lyrische Stenogrammheft", becomes a bestseller for the Jewish writer in 1933.

She captures the tone of her time. She wrote verses about "the little people", about life in the "big city" with a longing for more.
After her second book, "Das kleine Lesebuch für Große" (1935), Mascha Kaléko's works were banned by the Nazis. Nevertheless, her writings are widely distributed "under the table". In 1938, she emigrates to America with her husband and son.

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