Various - Schlager im Spiegel der Zeit Schlager im Spiegel der Zeit 1929 - 1933 (5-CD)

1929 is the last year of the turbulent wild twenties, later called the `golden ones', but which were anything but. On the contrary. They were dramatic times. Remarque's anti-war novel 'Im Westen nichts Neues' ('Nothing New in the West'), which had been printed by a Berlin newspaper as a serialized novel, now aroused the emotions as a book edition.

 

The wild twenties are over. They were dramatic times. And they remained so. The unrest even increased. Heinrich Brüning becomes chancellor of the Reich. Famine in China claims several million lives. SA man Horst Wessel is shot down and dies a short time later. Max Schmeling becomes boxing world champion. Berlin Court of Appeals declares marriage invalid because the wife had not named all her ex-lovers to her husband before the wedding. Unmarried persons have to pay a single tax. 

Russia's ballerina Anna Pavlova dies. Spain becomes a republic. The Empire State Building is erected in New York. The 'Threepenny Opera' comes to the screen. The Berlin State Theater has only seventeen subscribers. Hitler allies himself with national conservatives and industry. Cigarette industry begins five-day week. The 'Captain of Köpenick' comes to the theater stage and is filmed. KPD calls for 'Iron Front' with SPD against Nazi thugs. Chaplin comes to Berlin, 'Lichter der Großstadt' is shown in the cinema. Crisis in the world economy reaches a preliminary peak, unemployment figures rise from week to week. 

Hitler becomes a German citizen and runs for the office of Reich President - Kidnapping of the Lindbergh baby stirs up tempers - Peak of the world economic crisis: around six million unemployed in Germany. Hans Fallada publishes 'Kleiner Mann, was nun' - Composer Eugen d'Albert dies in Riga, matchstick king Ivar Kreuger commits suicide - Hindenburg re-elected as Reich President by runoff - Zwickel decree bans "immoral" swimwear - Dollfuß becomes Chancellor in Austria - Papen forms government of 'national concentration', popularly known as 'Cabinet of Barons'.

Estimated number of unemployed in the U.S.: 15 million - Resignation of the Schleicher cabinet - Krupp develops diesel engine - Seizure of power by the National Socialists - Adolf Hitler becomes Reich Chancellor - Wave of arrests after Reichstag fire - Enabling Act comes into force - Boycott of Jewish businesses - Concentration camps are established - Public book burnings - A Reich Chamber of Culture ensures increasing 'Gleichschaltung' and the exclusion of Jewish artists from cultural life - Berlin Radio Exhibition presents unified radio: the Volksempfänger.