cabaret singer

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Eighty years ago this month the Berlin-born Jewish German cabaret singer and actress of silent movies Dora Gerson (1899-1943) was murdered with her family in Auschwitz. This episode is done in her memory and includes two of her most famous songs Vorbei and Die Welt ist Klein Geworden.

The story is read by Katharina Albrecht.

Sources:

Jacques Klöters Facebook post in Dutsch, 16 Nov. 2020
http://www.musiques-regenerees.fr/GhettosCamps/Camps/GersonDora.html

Megan Elk was known throughout Cleveland for her larger-than-life cabaret performances as Miss Alexandra Huntington, a dame who loved singing songs about men who had wronged her.  But now that she's been truly unlucky in love... she had to kill Miss A off. A story about queerness, bisexual erasure, discovering and rediscovering identity through trauma, and good ol' fashioned betrayal. The intrigue! Life is nothing if not a performance.