Berliner Luft

“Berliner Luft” (Berlin Air) was originally a march song that appeared and was premiered in a burlesque of the same name by Paul Lincke in 1904. Soon after this, the composition became successful as an independent piece of music which was increasingly performed by numerous theater and salon orchestras, especially however by many bands. The major revision of the operetta “Frau Luna” (Mrs. Moon) in 1922 also added considerably to the dissemination of the song, as “Berliner Luft” was incorporated in it just like the rousing march “Folies Bergère” and it literally became – on international level too – the “anthem of Berlin”. Not by chance the annual concerts staged on the famous Waldbühne by the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra feature “Berliner Luft” most appropriately as finale.