Kamp! Songs and Satire from Theresienstadt

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Release Date: 20th May 2016
Catalogue No: AN28789
Label: Analekta
Length: 62 minutes

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Leo Straus, Gerhard Bronner: Come Right In!

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Amelia DeMayo, Curt Buckler, Sergei Dreznin

Sergei Dreznin, Schlesinger: Maria Theresia the Empress

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Amelia DeMayo, Curt Buckler, Sergei Dreznin

Weber, I: Theresienstadt Nursery Rhyme

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Amelia DeMayo, Curt Buckler, Sergei Dreznin

Sergei Dreznin, Ilse Weber: Letter to My Child

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Amelia DeMayo, Curt Buckler, Sergei Dreznin

Svenk: Theresienstadt March

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Amelia DeMayo, Curt Buckler, Sergei Dreznin

Sergei Dreznin, Leo Straus: Theresienstadt Questions

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Amelia DeMayo, Curt Buckler, Sergei Dreznin

Walter Lindenbaum, Gerhard Bronner: A Rumor Goes Through Town

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Amelia DeMayo, Curt Buckler, Sergei Dreznin

Ralph Benatzki, Theodor Otto Beer: Reco

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Amelia DeMayo, Curt Buckler, Sergei Dreznin

Theodor Otto Beer, Kurt Klauber: Ghetto Guard

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Amelia DeMayo, Curt Buckler, Sergei Dreznin

Sergei Dreznin, Ilse Weber: A Suitcase Speaks

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Amelia DeMayo, Curt Buckler, Sergei Dreznin

Gerhard Bronner, Hans Hofer: The Theater Ticket

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Amelia DeMayo, Curt Buckler, Sergei Dreznin

trad.: Mr. Sauer, Mr. Green

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Amelia DeMayo, Curt Buckler, Sergei Dreznin

Leo Straus, Oscar Straus: The Chefs Are Coming

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Amelia DeMayo, Curt Buckler, Sergei Dreznin

Walter Lindenbaum, Fred Raymond: And the Music Plays Along

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Amelia DeMayo, Curt Buckler, Sergei Dreznin

Leo Straus, Alexander Steinbrecher: Just as Though

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Amelia DeMayo, Curt Buckler, Sergei Dreznin

W.C.Handy: St. Louis Blues

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Amelia DeMayo, Curt Buckler, Sergei Dreznin

Walter Lindenbaum, Hermann Leopoldi: The Little Café

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Amelia DeMayo, Curt Buckler, Sergei Dreznin

Leo Straus, Otto Skutecky: Down in Prater

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Amelia DeMayo, Curt Buckler, Sergei Dreznin

Ilse Weber, Gerhard Bronner: The Sheep of Lidice

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Amelia DeMayo, Curt Buckler, Sergei Dreznin

Sergei Dreznin, Leo Straus: Theresienstadt Currency

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Amelia DeMayo, Curt Buckler, Sergei Dreznin

Pavel Friedmann, Gerhard Bronner: The Butterfly

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Amelia DeMayo, Curt Buckler, Sergei Dreznin

Sergei Dreznin, Kopper: They Seek One Another

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Amelia DeMayo, Curt Buckler, Sergei Dreznin

Manfred Greifenhagen, Martin Roman: Carousel

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Amelia DeMayo, Curt Buckler, Sergei Dreznin

Ilse Weber, Sergei Dreznin: Potato Peeler

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Sandra Kreisler

Frieda Rosenthal, Grigory Flidlider, Sergei Dreznin: Our Dear Old Cabaret!

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Isabelle Georges, David Kruger, Olivier Ruidavet

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Theresienstadt, or Terezín, was built as an impressive fortress by the Austrian Empress Maria Teresa to solidify the Hapsburgs’ hold on Bohemia. It later proved a bulwark in their defense against Napoleon. In 1941, the Nazis decided to turn the fortress into a transit camp for Jews from the German-occupied Czech lands.

Prisoners were housed in cramped basements, attics, barns and courtyards. The lack of food or decent sanitation led to outbreaks of typhus and dysentery. Always, there was the terror of transport to the death camps. In the midst of these intolerable conditions, the celebrity prisoners did what they did best: entertain. In attics and basements, at first in strict secrecy, some of Europe’s most famous cabaret stars, with the help of their fellow internees, wrote and performed satires about captors and inmates alike.

Before long, the Nazis incorporated this extraordinary artistic effort into their propaganda machine. They distributed musical instruments they had confiscated not long before. An orchestra and a jazz band, the Ghetto Swingers, were formed.

In October 1992, the story Chansons und Satiren aus Theresienstadt, was made into a tragic but also ironic production for three performers – man, woman and pianist. Sergei Dreznin, a Russian Jewish pianist and composer living in Vienna, was the musical director of that show, and also the composer of many of the melodies and satirical cabaret numbers. Gerhard Bronner, the ‘patriarch’ of Vienna cabaret, contributed several other remarkable songs. All the lyrics, poems and most of the music of the songs from this production were written, adapted and performed by the inmates of Theresienstadt In 1942-44. The versions on this recording are English translations of those texts and poems.

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