GER100 Lecture Notes - Reinhard Mey, Beer Hall Putsch, Fair City
16 Mar 2013
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1918: abdication of kaiser wilhelm ii and other kings; proclamation of the weimar republic. 1923: attempted hitler putsch (coup) and march on munich. 1938: kristallnacht (night of broken glass) coordinated attack on jews and synagogues. 1989: east german borders opened; berlin wall breached. Popular music in post-war germany has been, and, to a large extent still is, clearly dominated by two genres: 1) the german schlager," songs with a beat, and unpretentious lyrics, generally speaking; and. 2)foreign pop music, mainly of american and british origin. However, there has always been a small group of people (mainly those familiar with the prewar folk song tradition of youth movements) who could not identify with the mainstreams in popular music. At the same time these people did not wish to revive the traditional german songs either. Stimulated by the waldeck *folk music+ festivals a growing number of talented singers (called.
