Sigrid Grajek: Berlin, die 1920er Jahre – eine Stadt im Taumel

In the organizer's words:

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 the images that usually spring to mind in connection with the so-called "Golden Twenties". However, all this basically concerns only 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 reveals itself beneath the dazzlingly beautiful "Berlin in the Light" surface.

Although it is referred to as the "Weimar Republic," Berlin was the pulsating center. The different realities of life during these fifteen years were documented in a multitude of songs and lyrics with often unflinching humor. Sigrid Grajek assembles her selection from them and creates a musical-literary mirror of the epoch.

A collage by & with Sigrid Grajek, at the piano: Stefanie Rediske / Regina Knobel