ALL DARK – The New West
Jazz Tour on National Socialism
Swing Kids in Berlin – a city tour passing Olivaer Platz to Schaubühne , Lehniner Platz.
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meeting at the courner of Kurfürstendamm 31, 10719 Berlin
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ending ca 120 Minutes later in front of Schaubühne
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Jazz Tours can be booked anytime, please contact me!
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contact: +49 (0) 171 5483492 oder anja@jazzgeschichten.de
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from € 50
from 1933 – 1945 – a city tour: Terms such as ‘civil disobedience’ and ‘resistance’ are up for debate. Swing was actually on the Nazis’ blacklist! But Joseph Goebbels , Gauleiter of the NSDAP in Berlin, knew he needed the music. for his plans. So compromises and or manipulation?
Swing Kids in Berlin – The city tour is searching in site. There was a big-city youth that loved the music and the dance. The Swing Kids did not agree with the new circumstances. But what should a jazz life look like?
Although the term Swing reached Berlin only in 1936, it was already there in 1933. This was neither March nor Equals! The music imparts casual-elegant a sense of life, individualistic and nonconformist. A touch of freedom surrounded it! On the contrary, Swing was not compatible with the official NS ideology. From the beginning it was regarded as part of the active as well as the passive resistance. Not all Swing Kids in Berlin were involved in the organized resistance. They often had to care enough for themselves and their idiosyncratic environment. Independently of this, the Nazis fought them nationwide with very different means. In Berlin Swing belonged to the fixed entertainment repertoire! So what to do here? And what part of the original music could remain under the inhumane conditions?
Here the Swing kids in Berlin called themselves Swings. Especially in the New West they and their dances shaped the picture. And they behaved eccentric and extravagant! Who were they, and what did they do in?
Also see:ALL DARK – Friedrichstadt
