Bolle reiste jüngst zu Pfingsten

Bolle recently went to Pentecost is one of the most popular songs from the Berlin region in the Berlin dialect.

According to the assessment of the musicologist Lukas Richter is this is a farce song on the prototype of Cavalier " rüdigen " Berliner. In the song, the holiday trip of a typical Berliner reflected in the then suburb of Pankow with the Schoenholzer Heath. By suburban car and wagon car, this had become a popular pastime of the Berlin since the mid-19th century. The common nickname Bolle ( onion) stands for an unspecified person.

There is neither a relationship with the major Berlin businessman Carl Bolle still the Brandenburg hairdresser Fritze Bollmann.

Since the song is widely used, it has undergone numerous Umdichtungen, including demonstrations and political events. Also, the verse number of song varies as with many folk songs depending on the source.

A jazz arrangement of the melody of the song ( without text), the composer Dieter Falk has recorded on his 2007 solo album " Folk Songs".

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Versions

• Be joyful and sing ... songs from our lives: Karlheinz Ocasek (ed.). Eulenspiegel, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-359-00974-6