Claire Waldoff
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Claire Waldoff, born Clara Wortmann, was a German singer. She was a famous kabarett singer and entertainer in Berlin during the 1910s to the 1930s, chiefly known for performing ironic songs in the Ber
Bundesarchiv Bild 183 R07878, Claire Waldoff
Walk of Fame of Cabaret, Mainz
Claire Waldoff poster, 1914
Rudolf Nelson
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Rudolf Nelson was a German composer of hit songs, film music, operetta and vaudeville, and the founder and director of the Nelson Revue, a significant cabaret troupe on the 1930s Berlin nightlife scen
Claire Waldoff
…where she performed at the Figaro-Theater on Kurfürstendamm. In 1907, she also began a working as a cabaret singer. She made her breakthrough when Rudolf Nelson gave her a job at the Roland von Berlin theatre near Potsdamer Platz. Initially planning to perform antimilitarist pieces by Paul Scheerbart in a men's…
Rudolf Nelson in 1953