Poetry of the German literary cabaret is a phenomenon that has been actively developing in German-speaking countries for more than a hundred years and is nevertheless practically unknown to the Russian reader. "Imported" from France purely entertaining cabaret genres at the turn of the XIX-XX centuries. found fertile ground in Germany and soon filled with relevant and political content, gained anti-war, anti-Nazi accusatory pathos and satirical sharpness. Literary cabaret was perhaps the only publicly available and widespread form of social satire in Germany during the Weimar Republic period. This anthology includes poetic and prose works by K. Morgenstern, I. Ringelnats, F. Wedekind, K. Tucholsky, B. Brecht, E. Musam, E. Kestner, F. Grünbaum and others.