Katharina Thalbach reads: Cheese beer conquers Kurfürstendamm

Berlin, end of the 1920s: In Gabriele Tergit's first novel, which suddenly made her famous in 1931, she not only tells of the rise and fall of the folk singer Käsebier, but also of the dazzling dynamism of an entire city. The secret tip cheese beer quickly becomes a megastar whose potential success story everyone wants to take away a part of. Cheese beer is marketed without restraint.

In addition to the precise description of the social milieus, pointed and highly comic dialogues make Tergit's novel appealing; a novel made for Katharina Thalbach with her unmistakable “Berlin snout.” Throughout her life, she not only impressed as a great comedian but also as an actress close to the audience in film and theatre.