Jewish Berlin Cabaret: Paul Godwin Orch. & Max Hansen, 1930

[MrAndylil]

max hansen was danish - and possybly jewish.

[Babohoo]

Une belle page de cabaret berlinois !

[djmusicjac]

I love Weimar German Kabarett music, love the fun aspect, freedom of the lyrics, music, well freedom while it lasted. This era is very important culturally as it produced some of the most original interesting tunes German Kabarett 1920s to 1930s

[Geostrum2]

Inspired Cabaret I am sure,

[janoschii]

I don't think that Max Hansen was calling himself an jewish artist. It reflects the way we look today. He was an great artist, thats the point. Would be nice If we could stop to brand everything for our needs.

[Tomislavv2]

@janoschii

Yes it would be nice not to brend everything for our needs.For example you should implement your own words.

[paulj0557]

@janoschii More people brand themselves and it's contagious unfortunately.

[weltstein]

Keep politics away from art and this is true art of a bygone era 

[nickelstew]

It's sad when biggots use nice sites like this to vent their ignorance.

The Israeli's didn't get their land back through terrorism.

Somebody found the Dead Sea scrolls which showed the land as originally being theirs.

A vote was taken in the U.N. after tons of hearings and so on,...

But, the biggots don't want to hear this.

They probably don't even know the vote in the Israeli's favor sparked a war of independance, started by the Arab nations and won by the Israeli's in 1948.

[bimhimbim]

@nickelstew Well, of course they got their land through terrorism. Ever heard of Count Bernadotte?

[bimhimbim]

But in any case that has nothing to do with music of the 1930s, guess the upper Silesian musicians didn't care much about religion than being not Polish. In particular when they sung music for homosexuals their religion was no point. Furthermore being a jew and a supporter of zionist nation building is not the same. After all Askhenazi means German.

[karlsmutter]

HEIL HITLER!!!!

[acerb45666555]

why the Jews? it seems it was a blind and careless policy the fascist party enacted. such intense discrimination makes no sense. if certain Germans were complaining of Jews in high office,=universtiy, business, then why didnt that element of Germans just study more? then Herr Schoeder could have achieved what Herr Bernstein achieved! all with education and perseverance!

[caligulito1]

@acerb45666555 Excellent commentary: and if the Palestinians in the Gaza concentration camp studied a bit harder they could be as successful as the Israelis and get their country back, all with education and perseverance! No matter that the Israelis got their country not through education, but through terrorism against the previous occupants, the British!

[am1966ath]

@acerb45666555 anti semitism have long,old,ugly roots and a life of its own without logic.

[jur990]

Max Hansen ist ein Naturtalent. Auch das Lied "Was kann ich dafür?" ist ein gutes Beispiel für seinen witzigen Stil.

[GIDEON975]

was kann ein jude denn dafür dass er so klug ist ...

[GIDEON975]

GENIUS !!!!!!!!!!!

[LeRoi715]

it is easy to feel the spirit of the lost times..ouch...

danke !

cheers!

[mayflash67]

Funny! Lustig!

[smalltownoregon]

I don't have umlauts or 'ess-tsetts' either...I guess I wasn't clear. Everybody's got the chorus..so did I--and the tenor of the rest of it (dass ich so schoen bin)..However, there are 2 stanzas that have some details I'm not quite getting : the one "aus der Wiegele..." and the contretemps between the Lehmans... I felt embarrassed about my declining German, until I ran it by a lady who grew up in Basel foxtrotting to this, and she wasn't sure either. Anybody, on those two stanzas? Thanks to all.

[gmmix]

Incredibly interesting commentary. Thank you for providing this. FIVE STARS!

[smalltownoregon]

hilarious-but I was looking for the lyrics in text. Most of its pretty clear but there are a few spots I'm not sure about...

[kiawarra]

Was kann der Sigismund dafur (by Robert Gilbert)

Was kann der Sigismund dafur dass er so schon ist?

Wass kan der Sigismund dafur dass man ihn liebt?

Die Leute tun, als ob die Schonheit ein Vergehn ist -- man soll doch froh sein, dass es sowas Schones gibt.

Was kann der Sigismund dafur dass er so schon ist?

Der Sigi ist nun mal ein susser Kavalier, und dass er immer bei den Damen gern geseh'n ist, was kann der Sigismund, der Sigismund dafur?

Apologies for the lack of umlauts.

[LeszkoIII]

Sosnowiec is in Zaglebie Dabrowskie!No in Upper Silesia...

[saltburner2]

In 1923, Max Hansen and Betty Fischer appeared with Richard Tauber in the premiere of Oscar Straus's 'Last Waltz'.

It was one of 4 new operettas Tauber created at the Theatre an der Wien that year: the others were Bacchus-Nacht, Die Perlen von Cleopatra and Eine Nacht in Venedig.

[TanteMarco]

wundervoll, einfach nur schoen!

[hopeforsalvation]

Dirty sarcastic Jew rats.

[BLACKBOOK70]

idiot

[notref]

schliesse mich an!

[geraldineamercuri]

Qué divertida canción! :)

[vertxxgg]

Pascual Godes take in Barcelona the responsability of Jazz recordings by POLYDOR in 1928..J.Duran Alemany in the same year begin recording for PARLOPHONE..they Know both Berlin musicians like Ben Berlin,Spoliansky ,Godwin,Nelson,Weintraub etc so the influence of jazz records in Barcelona were german-jewish strongly till 34..Planas,Matas,Demon etc came with strong American experiences..more eclectic in Spain

[kukstejn]

ein super hit. wie kann man den douwnloaden?

[yiddishtheater]

Was kann der Sigismund dafür, daß er so schön ist?

Was kann der Sigismund dafür, daß man ihn liebt?

Die Leute tun, als ob die Schönheit ein Vergehn ist -

Man soll doch froh sein, daß es sowas Schönes gibt.

Was kann der Sigismund dafür, daß er so schön ist?

Der Sigi ist nun mal ein süßer Kavalier,

Und daß er immer bei den Damen gern geseh'n ist,

Was kann der Sigismund, der Sigismund dafür?

[tausendgold]

So kann amn nur singen,wenn man 100% zu den Genialen gehört!

[Abweisung]

Ich rieche selektierende Kräfte

[Garibdos]

"was kann der Sigismund dafür dass er so schön ist.

was kann der Sigismund dafür, dass man ihn liebt, die Leute tun als wenn das Schönsein ein Vergehn ist" :)

Was für ein Text *dumbs up*

[fuzzbear6240]

240252, What a wonderful number! Thank you. YF, J.

[tHEnOOSEsWINGS]

another excellent video with all the trimmings. thank you.

[kspm01]

A true Benatzky classic forever, and I agree that Godwin and Hansen make a perfect team for an awesome performance. Thanks for presenting this!

[jozefsterkens]

He was the creator of the operetta.

[dzheger]

Love the song, and this is another brilliant version. The singer is practically disintegrating over Sigi's overwhelming beauty.

[dairyman716]

I really love Max Hansen, and I really love Benatzky. Hansen and Benatzky in one tune, what could be better.

But my favorite at the moment is the Tango "Mein schönes Fräulein gute Nacht" from

"Axel vor der Himmeltür".

[HarborGuy]

I am not History buff, but after all the Hell the Nazis put the world through for about l5 years or more..I don't think this is apt. All the people connected to this era are dead.

[genia106]

Excellent!

Paul GODWIN may have died in oblivion and Max Josef HANSEN may not have regained his popularity before he died but you certainly have brought them back to life tonight with this cheery lively cabaret presentation.

[jozefsterkens]

Creator !!!!!!!