Swinging the East – OSTPOL BERLIN Festival Closing

Founded in 2021,“The Oskar Strock & Eddie Rosner Orchestra”®is the first—and so far only—ensemble in the world to bring the once-ostracized, silenced, and presumed-lost music of Oskar and Eddie, along with works by their contemporaries, back to Germany through an exclusive commission, and to present their later works from the 1940s through the 1970s. Oskar Strock (1893,Latvia) and Eddie Rosner (1910, Berlin) enjoyed their first successes in Berlin during the late Weimar Republic, soon becoming the pioneering and most important co-founders of the swing and tango traditions from Eastern Europe all the way to Japan and Finland. Nevertheless, dictatorial regimes nearly succeeded in erasing the names of these two exceptionally talented Jewish musicians from cultural memory. We are therefore celebrating their music at the conclusion of our festival with a spectacular, first-class concert!

The Oskar Strock & Eddie Rosner Orchestra

Sem Barlas – trumpet, flugelhorn Gal Liraz – saxophone, clarinet
Steffen IIner – double bass
Frank Winkelmann – Drums
Anna Lukschina – vocals, kazoo
Dmitri Dragilew – Piano, Artistic Director

Hosted by Martin Jankowski

The event will be conducted primarily in musical language.