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Life in the Bugatti Step: The Czech Avant-Garde between the World Wars
The Bugatti is not only a luxurious sports car, but also the name of an artists' pub in the Czech city of Brno. In 1931, the composer Jaroslav Ježek wrote his "Bugatti Step" there at a white grand piano in a beer-air and bar atmosphere, which became a hit on the Prague artistic scene. The legendary café and its instrument still exist, and Ježek's jazzy keyboard dance still enjoys cult status in his homeland.
The "Bugatti step" becomes the sound of the "young savages" who decisively shaped Czech music history in the 1920s and 1930s: Erwin Schulhoff, Jaroslav Ježek, Pavel Haas, Victor Ullmann, Vítězslava Kaprálová, the first Czech woman conductor, and František Burian or Bohuslav Martinů are the names of the composers of the hour, above whom the old man of Czech music, Leoš Janáček, towers as their mentor and in many cases teacher.
These artists are magically drawn to the (sound) worlds of the music hall, jazz, vaudeville and show. The cult of the body, swinging rhythms, a touch of the exotic - these things have a much more enticing effect on the sound creators than dry, serious chamber music evenings. On the stages, Dada is in vogue, cheerfulness is postulated as the quintessence of seriousness. Nothing is impossible.
Speed, technology, freedom, elegance and joie de vivre: the fast car also became a symbol of the "Roaring Twenties". The First World War is over, and the Czech Republic is founded. In the cultural centers of Prague and Brno, visions are in demand and a spirit of optimism spreads. Especially in music. But not only that: painting, theater, dance, typography - across the arts, people cross-fertilize and inspire each other, discuss, organize, and present themselves internationally. Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque drop by, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti and Kurt Schwitters are guests.
A film by Anne-Kathrin Peitz
Duration: 52'
UHD/4K
Produced by EuroArts Music, Czech TV, MDR
The programme is now in postproduction and will be soon available for distribution. For further information, please get in contact with the EuroArts team.
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