So ist der Jazz-Nigger auch in das Haus des Figaro, des Fidelio, des Hans Sachs, des Tristan, der Ariadne eingezogen. ..... Der Nigger, der Bringer der Jazzkultur ... über das Europa Beethovens triumphiert? Man glaube nur ja nicht an eine satirische Pointe.
(So the Jazz-Nigger moved in the house of Figaro, Fidelio, Hans Sachs, Tristan, Ariadne. ..... The nigger, the bringer of jazz culture ... triumphs over Beethoven's Europe? Doesn't seem like a funny punch line.)
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The above image is a poster for the Nazi exhibition Entartete Musik (Degenerate Music) which took place in Düsseldorf in 1938. The saxophone-playing "Der Nigger"[1] is a reference to the cover page for the score of Ernst Krenek's 1927 opera Jonny spielt auf. (One of the opera's principal characters is an amoral and libidinous black jazz musician named 'Jonny'.) The quote below the poster also refers to Krenek's opera, but did not come from the program booklet for the Nazi exhibition. It came from a review of Krenek's opera published several years before the Nazis came to power.[2] The author of the review, Julius Korngold, was a powerful and influential Viennese music critic and the father of the composer Erich Wolfgang Korngold.
