La influencia del contexto intelectual, artístico y literario en el Schlager de la República de Weimar

Abstract

The German Schlager reached one of its peaks in the nineteen twenties. The democratic regime between the First World War and Hitler’s takeover of power, with its controversial intellectuals, its vigour and creativity within all artistic genres, the birth of new literary trends, appearance of new fashion as well as the implantation of mass culture, consequently led to the genre of Schlager songs and its popularity. This actual work has included trawling through the many lyrics of these songs to show the influence of its time in the intellectual, artistic and literary context. This golden age of the Schlager coincides with the inflation in 1923, the world economic crisis in 1929, and the release of the sound movies and finally it slowed down with the Nazi takeover of political power. Whereas the majority of the songs do not participate with much cultural value in the sense that did for instance the theatres in Berlin at the time, other songs show a taste for the playful type Dadaist and others again amuse with a more spicy text. All in all they include a great variety of song lyrics which favourably enriches the genre of the German popular song.