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Roaring Twenties. Années folles. Goldene Zwanziger. In English it roars, in French it is from the wit and in German it shimmers in gold. In Sweden, we use the somewhat more modest "happy" for the 1920s when the economy was galloping, women were taking matters into their own hands and old truths were being questioned. Gallows humor can be seen in all the designations. Set in relief against what came before—a world war—and after—a depression—the 1920s appear relatively carefree, but the setting also gives the decade a whiff of the last days of Rome: the last, desperate time of boundless and clueless hedonism.
Even Sweden, at least in the big cities, gets a heavy dose of the cultural impulses of the time: violation of traditional gender roles, sexual promiscuity, cocktails, jazz, sophistication and even central stimulants. The great theater actor is called Gösta Ekman and one of the great novelists is Hjalmar Bergman. Both of them learn to use cocaine in the fashionable city of culture, i.e. Berlin. The big revue kings are Ernst Rolf and Karl Gerhard. Rolf makes limitlessly extravagant luxury revues, with excesses in decorations and ballets, and sings about a new age where the old man is out when the old woman is in and vice versa. Gerhard sings about "jazz boys" who trip on high heels and shake their little tails to syncopated jazz. The big movie star is called Greta Gustafsson but changes to Garbo and becomes an international myth in Hollywood. Tonight's talk is about this and some other things!
Kalle Lind is the author and radio speaker who calls himself "various workers in the culture industry with a special focus on the forgotten, the peripheral and "men with beards". He has written 14 books and since autumn 2014 runs the podcast Skewed. However, he is best known as a summer speaker and for his participation in On track.
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