“My verses are like dynamite” Curt Bloch's Het Onderwater Cabaret: The Conservation

The video gives an insight into the conservation of the small-format issues of an underground magazine called Het Onderwater-Cabaret. Over a period of more than 19 months between August 1943 and April 1945, the hitherto unknown German Jewish author Curt Bloch produced this unique work of creative resistance while in hiding in the Netherlands.
Week for week, Bloch put together a small format booklet comprising of handwritten poems in both Dutch and German which confronted Nazi propaganda and addressed a wide variety of themes: the course of the war, the lies and crimes of the National Socialists and their collaborators, his situation in hiding and the fate of his family, the approaching downfall and defeat of the Axis forces, and the fate of the German people.
Some eight decades since the creation of the work and nearly fifty years after his death, Curt Bloch’s hope is now finally being fulfilled: The exhibition in the Jewish Museum Berlin presents all 95 original issues of the Het Onderwater Cabaret that have been carefully separated and restored so that they can be researched and exhibited.
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Jewish Museum Berlin, Konvolut/816, Curt Bloch Collection, Loan of Charities Aid Foundation America, thanks to the generous support of the family of Curt Bloch
Video: Jewish Museum Berlin 2024, script, camera and editing: Peter Wollring