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100 years of the 20s: Charleston dress, cocaine, absinthe, monocle, tailcoat, champagne, feather boa, dancing on the volcano, sophisticated entertainment and nights until dawn as if each one was the last...


So much for the nostalgia and images that usually arise in people's minds in connection with the so-called ‘Golden Twenties’.

However, all this basically only concerns the period between 1924 and 1929. Sigrid Grajek, on the other hand, is concerned with the years from 1918 to 1933, i.e. those between the two world wars, where a dark and bitter side is revealed beneath the dazzlingly beautiful ‘Berlin in the light’ surface.
side is revealed.

Although people talk about the ‘Weimar Republic’, Berlin was the pulsating centre. The different realities of life during these fifteen years were documented in a multitude of songs and texts with often unflinching humour. Sigrid Grajek compiles her selection from these and creates a musical-literary mirror of the era.

A collage by & with Sigrid Grajek


(SHOW IN GERMAN)



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Dates
February 2025
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