Berlin plant

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Berlin plant is the expression in the Berlin dialect for a person who grew up in Berlin . This term possibly became popular with the original Berlin verse

"Do you think then, do you think then, you Berlin plant,
do you think then , I love you, just because I dance with you?"

In the 19th century, the Berliners thought of the march from Petersburg with this text, the two remaining stanzas of which are as follows:

"Are you thinking, are you thinking, is that why weene?
If you don't love me, then I love you all.

Do you think, are you thinking, det ick joking with you?
Put a perspective in my mouth and look into my heart. "

Another source gives the following text under the heading March Parodies and refers to "many more stanzas":

"Are you thinking, are you thinking, you Berlin plant,
that I don't like you if I don't dance with you?
Because you know it's never too late in the dark, if
I want to whisper to you before it's home.

Don't be angry, stay true to me, sweet Margarete,
because you have known for a long time that I only adore you ... "

The texts of the popular Berlin songs and, above all, the dances known as "Rixdorfer" often portray the brisk type of Berlin entertainment very drastically. The scandalous reputation associated with the hustle and bustle around Hermannplatz ultimately led to the renaming of the former town of Rixdorf as Neukölln in 1912 .

literature

  • Bodo Harenberg (Ed.): The Chronicle of Berlin . Chronik-Verlag, Dortmund 1986, ISBN 3-88379-082-6 , p. 321.
  • Hans Ostwald : The Berliner. Cultural and moral history of Berlin. Hermann Klemm AG publishing house, Berlin-Grunewald 1924, p. 568 ( digitized version ).
  • Lukas Richter : The Berlin hit song. Presentation, documents, collection. VEB Deutscher Verlag für Musik, Leipzig 1969. (plus habilitation thesis) New edition: Waxmann, Mainz 2004, ISBN 3-8309-1350-8 , p. 369. f. ( limited preview in Google Book search).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sabine Schutte: The music is coming! On the political and social function of march and dance music. Springer-Verlag, December 18, 2017