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German Sinti song

Sinti folkloric violin · Musik deutscher Zigeuner

Germany

German Sinti song and folkloric violin besides jazz. Folklore and swing in one violin. The Hub keeps the jazz circuit. This archive files the song side and the lament.

This song tradition is filed here, beside gypsy jazz. Schnuckenack Reinhardt (1921–2006, Weinsheim–Heidelberg), Titi Winterstein, Häns’che Weiss. Folklore and swing in one violin. Musik deutscher Zigeuner LPs named a market.

Porajmos: family deported 1938. The jazz circuit sits on Gypsy Jazz Hub. This archive files the folkloric and song side and the lament. Sources: Heidelberg Documentation Centre; Lie, RomArchive Jazz; DLF Kultur 2021.

Musik Deutscher Zigeuner LPs, Da Camera Song: Schnuckenack Reinhardt Quintett volume 1, February 1969; volume 4, April 1972. Siv B. Lie: the term Gypsy jazz came into usage in the 1970s after that Sinti revival.

The Documentation and Cultural Centre of German Sinti and Roma, Heidelberg, holds a library of about 15,000 media units: 600 years of German Sinti and Roma history, the Porajmos, civil rights after 1945, literature in Romanes. From 24 January 2019 it also hosts RomArchive.

Key players

  1. 1921–2006

    Franz “Schnuckenack” Reinhardt

    • Violin, bandleader · Germany
    • German Sinti violinist, a relative of Django’s line, who never met him. His family was driven east in 1938. After the war he put Sinti music on German stages. Musik Deutscher Zigeuner, Da Camera Song: volume 1, February 1969; volume 4, April 1972. Wikipedia: first concert of the quintet, November 1967, Heidelberg.

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