Step into the shadows with Hersh Dagmarr, a singing phantom from Weimar Berlin’s underground cabaret scene who mysteriously disappeared in the 1930s—but refuses to stay gone.
From the smoky cabarets of Paris to the expressionist darkness of Berlin, from Hollywood’s golden lie and back to the volcano’s edge, this is a story of desire, emancipation, future nostalgia and the dance floor as cathedral.
“… what we called freedom, some people called sin. And they got rid of us. Or so they thought. Little did they know that for us sinners, troubadours, fem freaks, and degenerate artists—for us, it was only the beginning!”
Featuring songs by Edith Piaf, Kurt Weill, Marlene Dietrich, Mischa Spoliansky, Friedrich Hollaender, Iggy Pop, Kylie Minogue, Régine, and more—performed in French, English, and German.
Specters, ghosts, vampires, wandering tramps from the pyre—there’s room for all of us.