Der erste Weltkrieg und Tango:
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In 1912, President Raymond Poincaré of France had confessed to Enrique Laretta, the Argentine Minister, that the French were indifferent to the threat of war. Two years later, in August 1914, when war fever suddenly gripped the country, Ricardo Güiraldes* was shaken by the patriotic frenzy in Paris; he felt that all his respect for Europe had been destroyed. 'What a great word is civilisation', he said bitterly, 'and a what a crushing reality is instinct'. […]
The Exodus of South Americans accelerated during the German invasion of France. […] A number, however, stayed behind, having volunteered to fight for France: the artist José García Calderón died at Verdun two years later. In that autumn of 1914, even the tango was swept up for patriotic service. Back in Argentina, Eduardo Arolas rapidly composed the tango 'El Marne' during Joffe's great defensive battle.
The horrors of the Great War made laisure of every kind more urgent and febrile. Young man coming back on leave tried to forget the trenches in a few dizzy hours at a night club or dance hall, while the women who danced with them were only too aware that they might never see their partners again. In the fashionable London circle led by Lady Diana Cooper, the parties of the war years became known as the 'dances of death'.
It was during the war that the first films featuring the tango appeared, all made in Argentina. In 1915 came Nobleza gaucha, […]. The following year, the great Carlos Gardel featured in Flor de Durazno, a silent film in which he appeared dressed as a sailor. In 1917 came the first film devoted entirely to the tango – and appropriately called El tango del muerte.“
Simon Collier (et.al.), Tango
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* ein argentinischer Schriftsteller
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