Eine Nacht im Weimar!
Music, Tanzen und Kabbarett!
Saturday 8th July 7pm - 12am
Come and join us for the heady days of Berlin in the 1920's. The Moka Efti Deptford is returning for another night of queer abandon with live music, cabaret, performance, cocktails and bohemian gaiety!
Be dazzled by beautiful performances and glorious music including;
Engel
Marlene Dietrich (1901-1992)
Weimar cabaret and Hollywood film star; icon of sexual liberation; boxer; mother; angel; monster. Marlene Dietrich preserves her legend in troubled seclusion.
"I'm worth more dead than alive. Don't cry for me after I'm gone; cry for me now”
Choreography & Costume Design: Daniel Hay-Gordon & Eleanor Perry (Thick and Tight)
Marlene Dietrich: Edd Arnold
Live music
Singing 1920’s Weimar Cabaret classics throughout the evening will be Keziah and Medusa Has Been, everything from Brecht to Dietrich sung live, plus learn how to do some 1920’s dances with our lovely dance master Henri T! Foxtrot bitte!
About The Weimar:
Berlin has a long history of queer culture, in the 1920s the city was the Gay Capital of Europe. In 1896 the world's first gay magazine started in Berlin, called Der Eigen ("The Self-Owning"). Magnus Hirschfeld, a German physician, founded the Scientific Humanitarian Committee in May 1897 as a subset of Berlin's Institute for the Science of Sexuality. Not only was this organisation the first of its kind in Germany, it was the first gay-rights organisation in the world to lobby for the rights of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people, with a focus on representation.
During the 1920s and 1930s the world's first gay village was in Berlin's Schoenberg. Gay, lesbian and queer bars and nightclubs flourished, as did queer artistic expression through films, music, and print publications. There was no censorship in the Weimar Republic due to article 118 of the Weimar constitution (it banned censorship!) so queer culture and life really flourished. Cabaret singer Claire Waldoff and actress Marlene Dietrich lived and worked in Berlin's queer neighbourhoods during this time. The first gay demonstration ever started in Berlin in 1922. The Reichstag nearly decriminalised homosexuality in 1929, before the year’s economic crash made a final vote impossible, the rest as they say is history.
So join us at The Moka Efti Deptford for a heady night of steamy 1920's fun!
(Please note we run a cashless / card only bar)