Hitler’s birthplace plans week of ‘decadent’ dancing

Hitler’s birthplace plans week of ‘decadent’ dancing

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norman lebrecht

May 30, 2014

The town of Linz is planning a September focus on some of the art that was banned by its most notorious son.

There will be an opera, Ulenspiegel, by Walter Braunfels, a concert of once-forbidden music, a reading from Ernst Krenek’s travel diaries and, most appealing, an exhibition of the dance music banned by the Nazis as being tainted by blacks and Jews. Swing was strictly verboten.

The Braunfels opera will be performed in a tobacco factory by the Israel Chamber Orchestra, conductor Martin Sieghart. Full info below.

swing tanzen

Tabakfabrik Linz // in Kooperation mit dem Internationalen Brucknerfest Linz 2014

 Ulenspiegel
Oper von Walter Braunfels
Termine: 10.9. um 19:00, 12.9. um 19:00, 14.9. um 16:00, 16.9. um 19:00

 Ausstellung
Swing tanzen verboten

Unterhaltungsmusik nach 1933 zwischen Widerstand, Propaganda und Vertreibung
Termin: 9.9. – 5.10.

Ausstellungseröffnung mit Vortrag und Führung
Swing tanzen verboten
Unterhaltungsmusik nach 1933 zwischen Widerstand, Propaganda und Vertreibung
Termin: 9.9. um 18:00; Eintritt frei

 Swing tanzen verboten
Konzert zur Ausstellung – eine musikalische Reise
Termin: 9.9. um 19:30

Schülervorstellung: 18.9. um 17:00

 Verbotene Klänge
Reisebuch aus den österreichischen Alpen von Ernst Krenek
; Konzert mit Lesung
Termin: 11.9.um 19:00
Veranstaltungsort: Tabakfabrik Linz, Quadrom bzw. Dock und Studio Noir (Ausstellung)

 

Comments

  • michael ecker says:

    Sorry Norman!
    Hitler was NOT born in Linz, unfortunately Hitler was born in Braunau/Inn

  • Michael Schaffer says:

    “Swing was strictly verboten”

    Well, sort of, but not really. There was a lively underground swing scene and at some point, they even used it as propaganda vehicle:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXm7n2QSVMM

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