WINNER OF THE 2006 NIGHTLIFE AWARD for
"UNIQUE CABARET PERFORMANCE"

The KABARETT KOLLEKTIF is a collective of European cabaret performers currently based in New York City. Dedicated to preserving the European cabaret arts and to furthering the art form as a whole, these artists (from six countries) perform the songbook in its original languages and English, and have previously been featured in sold-out concerts at the German Consulate, the Neue Galerie, the Alliance Francaise, and Joe's Pub in New York, and at concert halls, cabarets and music festivals around the U.S. and abroad.

German-born Karen Kohler, a leading interpreter of Weimar cabaret, founded the Kabarett Kollektif in January 2003 to bring European cabaret to a wider audience, and to unite the range, color and culture represented by these artists. While the American songbooks are delivered nightly throughout the city, the European songs are harder to find. "In the Kollektif we share an attraction to the dark, edgy, witty, haunting, biting and uniquely melodious side of cabaret," Kohler says. "Many of the songs you'll hear are known and loved throughout the world. Others are waiting to be revealed." Paris gave birth to cabaret. Berlin is where it reached its 20th century zenith. Today cabaret thrives in these cities and places like London, San Francisco and Sydney. "It's a great time to be alive as an artist in New York," Kohler continues, "armed with a suitcase full of songs written in other times, on other continents, and never more at home than here, and now!"