auf die echos hören…

100 years ago, Berlin was a cauldron of artistic exploration and expression. Artists were testing new forms and pushing the limits of social norms, responding to a wildly-changing world around them. A lot of that experimentation found its way to the tiny stages of hugely popular cabarets. These performances reflected a society convulsing in cultural upheaval, financial insecurity, technological whiplash, and rising political violence. The songs created for the stages of Berlin in the 1920s echo to us a century later as we struggle with our own social upheavals.

Join us in the Ratskeller of the Germanic American Institute for a review of classic Berliner Kabarett lieder as we renew their songs of love, protest, longing, warning, and hope. Sung in (mostly) German featuring the talents of: Bradley Greenwald, Anna Hashizume, Ryan Hill, Suzie Juul, Mistress Ginger, Jacqueline Ultan, Vic Volare, Melanie Wehrmacher, Steven Zubich.

MORE ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Performer, producer, writer and advocate for ensemble-created art for over 25 years. Work has been seen on stages in the Twin Cities, New York, San Francisco, Berlin, and Beijing. Former Fulbright Scholar, Founding Artistic Director of Sandbox Theatre in Minneapolis and marzipanik in Oakland, CA. Current chicken & cat dad. Next production: co-writer on UPSTREAM with Mixed Blood Theatre.

Mistress Ginger is a Juilliard-trained performer based in the Twin Cities. With a passion for storytelling through song, she has brought her cabaret magic to stages across the Twin Cities, from the Bryant-Lake Bowl Theater to Crooners Supper Club. And she can cook, too! Her cookbook, Mistress Ginger Cooks: Everyday Vegan Food for Everyone, was published in 2014. Her first Halloween-themed cabaret show, WITCH, PLEASE!, comes to the Bryant-Lake Bowl on October 25 and 26.

Pianist, harpsichordist and composer Steven Zubich enjoys a dynamic musical career. He is an alumnus of the Perpich Center for Arts Education in Golden Valley, Minnesota. He earned a B.A. in music with a minor in art history from the University of Minnesota-Duluth where he studied solo and collaborative piano with Tracy Lipke-Perry and Alexander Chernyshev. At UMD, he received extensive musical training through supplemental coursework in piano pedagogy, musicology, music theory, and composition. He received distinction when he was highlighted with the UMD Symphony Orchestra as the winner of UMD’s 12th Annual Concerto and Aria competition and as a recipient of the Matinee Musicale Scholarship. He continued his studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and was awarded his Master’s degree in piano performance under the tutelage of Venezuelan concert pianists Elena Abend and Judith Jaimes. This past summer, Zubich attended the Tafelmusik Baroque Institute in Toronto and is currently preparing for certification programs on the harpsichord.

Zubich's vocations include performing, composing, teaching and administration. His incidental compositions have been performed with theatrical companies such as Phantom Chorus and Wayward Theater. He is a faculty member at MacPhail Center for Music and maintains a private teaching studio in St Paul. Since 2017, Zubich has managed the Northern Lights Music Festival in his Minnesota Homeland every July. He has organized over 150 classical music performances throughout the Iron Range since his tenure with NLMF.