AUFWIND

At the beginning of the nineties, the so-called multicultural movement developed in Europe. Its source, the serious study of other cultures in conjunction with the creative examination of one´s own, has since been so obscured by commercial marketing that it is now hardly recognizable any more.
Aufwind was founded in 1984 by Claudia Koch, Hardy Reich and Andreas Rohde who were living in the German Democratic Republic, a state whose multicultural interests were limited to the state cultures of the USSR and other brother“ states.

They travelled to many centers of Jewish culture in Poland, Hungary and Rumania where they undertook extended studies of the Yiddish language, its history and culture. Visiting survivors of the Holocaust and searching for their own responsibility, the members of the group explored their own personal identities.
Since then the band has performed throughout Germany, Israel, the USA, Poland, Hungary and Rumania. In 1992, Aufwind was invited to participate in a production of Joshua Sobol's play “Ghetto“ at the Gorki Theatre in Berlin, which ran for three years. Compared to the superficiality coming out of radio stations every day, Aufwind is real. As Sing Out! put it: “Aufwind‘s isolation from the klezmer mainstream has made for some fascinating eccentricities. You have never heard it this way before.“

Jidisch Tango 3:11
(Music: trad., lyrics: anonymous, arr.: Claudia Koch, Jan Hermerschmidt; Manuskript)
Taken from the current CD Awek di junge jorn
(Misrach Musik MSR 0144-2)