Author Webpage. Much of Berlin's light-entertainment culture was in one way or another intertwined with the new art from America, jazz. It is likely that German prisoners of war were exposed to it in French camps, and that the Allied occupying forces brought records and sheet music into the defeated country.
Two German bands that sought to highlight American jazz more than any other were Eric Borehard's small combo and Stefan Weintraub's Syncopators. For commercial reasons, many German musicians pretended not only to be able to play jazz, but actually to be Americans, adopting English names.
However, even in the liberal atmosphere of Weimar democracy, the public and private attitude toward blacks, including Afro-Americans, was an ambivalent one, and this reflected on the few black jazz musicians in Germany. Access to content on Oxford Academic is often provided through institutional subscriptions and purchases.
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