KIND OF GOLDEN – Women in Jazz

KIND OF GOLDEN – Women in Jazz

Jazz Tour of the twenties

Women in the barn district! Let’s stroll past historic venues of jazz among other things, such as the Berlin Ensemble or Clärchens Ballhaus!

• starting in front of the Berliner Ensemble, Bertolt-Brecht-Platz 1, 10117 Berlin. The way to the women in the barn district ends about 120 minutes later at Sophiensaele, Sophienstraße 18, 10178 Berlin
• Please contact me in advance: +49/171/5483492 or anja@jazzgeschichten.de
• € 15/person

When jazz conquered Berlin after the First World War, its opponents considered the music a sign of “unmanliness” and “feminisation”. So let’s take a closer look at the women themthelves!

culture of the “slum district” of the city, the Scheunenviertel? Light girls allegedly were having fun with heavy boys and vice versa, or among themselves. Here were lots of little stories. And they became great theatre and and grandiose cabaret! What about Valeska Gert, Josephine Baker or Rosa Valetti?