The musical Cabaret is one of the most successful plays of its genre. The story takes place in Berlin at the end of the 1920s. It is the time of the incipient Great Depression and the rise of National Socialism, but this does not seem to matter to the characters in Production . There is the American writer Cliff, who falls in love with the stage star Sally in a dazzling cabaret. The two are in seventh heaven, there is talk of marriage, a better job and a child on the horizon. And then there is Fräulein Schneider, owner of a petty bourgeois boarding house, who becomes engaged to the Jewish fruit merchant Schultz and dreams of a life as a wife at his side. They all lack the strength to realize their dreams in sober reality. They drift along, ignoring the social developments that are increasingly encroaching on their private lives, assuming that the spook will soon be over again. Naivety, indifference - no matter what you call it: complicity in the devastating escalation of the overall political situation remains the depressing conclusion of this musical, which conveys contemporary history in a touching and admonishing way.
