An evening of music and cabaret to combat forgetting, featuring “Chanson-Nette” with Harry Ermer on piano and harmonica
Chansons & Jazz—do they go together? “Of course, perfectly,” say “Chanson-Nette” Jeannette Urzendowsky and Harry Ermer.
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"Chanson-Nette" am Mikro ...
They strike an artistic balance between the two genres. With both joy and depth, they successfully bridge the gap between the “intelligent song”—the chanson—and a wide variety of jazz styles. Welcome to the musical cabaret evening “Chanson Meets Jazz”!
Around 1900, jazz made its way from the U.S. to Europe. It quickly evolved into further variations, culminating in swing in the 1920s and 1930s. Berlin, the capital of the arts, offered plenty of stages for this.
Cabaret and chanson were also enjoying their heyday at that time. Poets and performers took on bourgeois narrow-mindedness with political, critical, and witty satire.
Jeannette Urzendowsky & Harry Ermer enrich their
chanson and jazz medley with entertaining cabaret and music stories. In doing so, they pay tribute to the great artists who helped shape German-language song and chanson, as well as the early days of jazz in Europe.
“Chanson Meets Jazz” is also an evening dedicated to keeping memories alive! In memory of artists and their works, who fell victim to fascist ideology.
For “Chanson-Nette” Jeannette Urzendowsky, this is a matter close to her heart. She is an honorary ambassador of the German Cabaret archive.
Additional information
THE “BLUE SALON”:
In the cozy “Blue Salon” of the parish hall at the Expressionist Kreuzkirche, located at Hohenzollerndamm 130 or 130a (at the corner of Forckenbeckstraße), the Protestant congregation of Schmargendorf invites you to the event series “Culture in the Kreuzkirche.”
RESERVATIONS:
Admission is free—donations for the artists are appreciated. Just drop by!
DIRECTIONS:
Take the S-Bahn/Ringbahn to the Hohenzollerndamm station; from there, it’s a 15–20-minute walk.
By car: Park on Hohenzollerndamm or in the neighborhood around the Kreuzkirche.
THE KREUZKIRCHE:
Even the first glimpse of the Kreuzkirche is a delight: zigzag friezes, masterfully designed spiral brick columns, a pagoda-like portal with blue-glazed ceramics, three pointed copper-covered pyramidal spires on the 54-meter-high tower, and a vibrant play of colors on the clinker-brick walls. The Kreuzkirche in Schmargendorf is one of Berlin’s most beautiful churches and ranks among Germany’s rare Expressionist religious buildings. The church was built between 1927 and 1929 based on designs by the Berlin architect Ernst Paulus and his son Günther Paulus. More than two million clinker bricks were used in its construction.
Accessibility
The "Blue Salon" at the Kreuzkirche has limited accessibility. For more information (ramp, etc.), please call the Schmargendorf Protestant Parish at 030-83224663 or email kirchenbuero@ws-evangelisch.de.
Participating artists
Chanson-Nette Jeannette Urzendowsky, Harry Ermer
Dates
November 2026
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