KURT TUCHOLSKY E FRITZY MASSARY
Il cabaret ai tempi di Weimer è idealmente rappresentato dalla prolifica penna autoriale di
La sua brillante e vitale effervescenza satirica mutò nel tempo , più o meno a partire dagli anni 20,
Kurt Tucholsky ( aka Theobald Tiger) il più satirico in un ambito dichiaratamente politico. L'autore svolse anche un lavoro come corrispondente a Parigi del giornale “Die Weltbühne”, respirando entrambe quelle incredibili arie di sfrenata libertà , formandosi come uno dei più importanti scrittori di piéces per il cabaret.
infatti Tucholsky cominciò a intuire i malevoli cambiamenti in atto, tanto agognati e rincorsi dalle caste politiche, finanziarie e militari, nel contempo esaltati , invocati dalla stessa plebe, ovvero la gente comune, e quindi la sua firma dissacrante si impresse su di una canzone che per voce di una donna sessualmente repressa, si auspicava l'esigenza nazionale di un ritorno all’uomo forte - il Tamerlano. Ebbene si, Mir ist heut’ so nach Tamerlan , ci parla già del Fuhrer, e per voce della cantante Fritzi Massary , venne parodiato ferocemente questo desiderio di un vero uomo che fosse in grado sia di soddisfare le vere donne che di riportare la Germania all’antico splendore imperiale...
Il grande Tucholsky, fu in questa chanson addirittura preveggente e dopo l’avvento del nazismo non potè letteralmente più respirare... Era un artista profondamente colto e intellettuale, ma inizialmente brillante e auto ironico , un individuo piacevolissimo mante del bello, ebreo e antiautoritario, e proprio per esser nemico giurato di ogni bellicoso nazionalismo, l'autore delle più belle cnansons del cabaret della Repubblica di Weimar, scappò in Svezia e lì si tolse la vita , una storia che termino nel 1935.
Il Matrix Ensemble e Ute Lemper , per esigenze di mercato, visto la fama di quest'ultima , hanno inciso una doppia versione del cd Berlin Cabaret Songs , una in tedesco per la serie " Entartete Musik - Music suppressed by the Third Reich ", un altra in lingua inglese per i mercati internazionali,
entrambe licenziate dalla Decca. Riporto il testo in inglese di Mir ist heut’ so nach Tamerlan :
IT’S SO MUCH LIKE TAMERLANE FOR ME TODAY
Tamerlane was duke of the Kyrgyz
And every person in Asia knew that.
Tamerlane rode ofver green meadows,
And where the youth had once ridden, no grass grew
And all the women listened anxiously for his step
And when the cities fell, the girls fell with them
He was always ready for a wild battle
That was a wonderful time in Asia!!
I am so much like Tamerlane in spirit today
A little bit of Tamerlane would be good
It would be, yes, but it embarrasses me,
It embarrasses me..laughingly.
I believe that something will happen
Something will happem….tonight.
I am so much like Tamerlane in spirit today
A little bit of Tamerlane would be good
And I look out into the audience
There is today such an atmosphere (aura)
Oh, friend, go away
My only goal
Is with Tamerlane
Tamerlane, my dear child, what a hope!
Such a Tamerlane, that would I also like to have.
Tamerlane, you can look for a long time.
He who works with devices, has a belly.
And when a little woman kisses a big bald spot,
Then she knows, that everything is useless (for the cat).
You are seeking in vain for Tamerlane here
Look below now, look there!
There is no Tamerlane to see here
But a little bit of Tamerlane would be nice.
I look at the men here, oh, dread!
There is no Tamerlane nearby!
I am so much like Tamerlane in spirit today
A little bit of Tamerlane would be good
There is nothing for you and me
They all have a pain
Oh, don’t cry too much, for there is
No more
Such a Tamerlane
Tamerlane was duke of the Kyrgyz
And every person in Asia knew that.
Tamerlane rode ofver green meadows,
And where the youth had once ridden, no grass grew
And all the women listened anxiously for his step
And when the cities fell, the girls fell with them
He was always ready for a wild battle
That was a wonderful time in Asia!!
I am so much like Tamerlane in spirit today
A little bit of Tamerlane would be good
It would be, yes, but it embarrasses me,
It embarrasses me..laughingly.
I believe that something will happen
Something will happem….tonight.
I am so much like Tamerlane in spirit today
A little bit of Tamerlane would be good
And I look out into the audience
There is today such an atmosphere (aura)
Oh, friend, go away
My only goal
Is with Tamerlane
Tamerlane, my dear child, what a hope!
Such a Tamerlane, that would I also like to have.
Tamerlane, you can look for a long time.
He who works with devices, has a belly.
And when a little woman kisses a big bald spot,
Then she knows, that everything is useless (for the cat).
You are seeking in vain for Tamerlane here
Look below now, look there!
There is no Tamerlane to see here
But a little bit of Tamerlane would be nice.
I look at the men here, oh, dread!
There is no Tamerlane nearby!
I am so much like Tamerlane in spirit today
A little bit of Tamerlane would be good
There is nothing for you and me
They all have a pain
Oh, don’t cry too much, for there is
No more
Such a Tamerlane
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