Hans Severus Ziegler. Entartete Musik: Eine Abrechnung.

(HOLOCAUST).

Berlin, 1938 (Issued later)

Poster.

Inspired by the Munich exhibition “Entartete Kunst” the theater director Hans Severus Ziegler organized an exhibition entitled”Entartere Musik” that focused on “degenerate” music - primarily jazz and of course anything composed by Jewish musicians. The poster displays “Negermusiker Johnny,” a character from the popular opera “Jonny spielt auf” by Ernst Krenek. The musician’s buttonhole is replaced with a Star-of David. The artwork personifies what the Nazis defined as degenerate: A primitive “Jewish-Negro” polluting German high-culture. See https://holocaustmusic.ort.org/politics-and-propaganda/third-reich/entartete-musik/.