Uploaded November 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
The singing and music-making brothers Well, Hans, Christoph and Michael, better known as the "Biermösl Blosn", traveled with their children, with alphorn, tuba, trumpets and other 23 instruments to the Black Continent in southern Africa. They wanted to exchange ideas with the local musicians, dancers and singers and wanted to play, dance and sing together.
The result is a funny and serious cultural dialogue in which they also learn a lot about the living conditions and individual fates of their musical partners. Peter Heller and his team accompanied the Biermösl on tour through the noisy townships of the big cities to spontaneous neighborhood meetings and joint performances. And because Hansi, Stofferl and Michael Well are also curious and critical travelers, you learn a lot about apartheid, slavery and oppression in the film. And also about the African gumboot dance, which is strikingly similar to the Schuhplattler.
Back in Bavaria, the Biermösl Blosn, supported by Gerhard Polt, humorously teach their audience African things.
The gumboot dance was invented by black miners almost a hundred years ago when they had to toil in the gold and diamond mines of the apartheid state. Since it was strictly forbidden for them to speak underground - for fear that they would band together and rebel against their oppressors - the workers invented a special secret language: They slapped their rubber boots loudly once, twice or several times with the palm of their hand and communicated with each other in this way. Over the days it developed into a rhythmic dance, the Gumboot Dance, the "African Plattler".
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Chapters
▷ 00:01:30 - Intro
▷ 00:00:20 - Schuhplattln in Umtata
▷ 01:32:10 - Credits
#bavaria #gumbootdance #schuhplattler #africa #music
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Original title: Plattln in Umtata. Mit der Biermösl Blosn in Afrika
© 2007, Licensed by Peter Heller
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The singing and music-making brothers Well, Hans, Christoph and Michael, better known as the "Biermösl Blosn", traveled with their children, with alphorn, tuba, trumpets and other 23 instruments to the Black Continent in southern Africa. They wanted to exchange ideas with the local musicians, dancers and singers and wanted to play, dance and sing together.
The result is a funny and serious cultural dialogue in which they also learn a lot about the living conditions and individual fates of their musical partners. Peter Heller and his team accompanied the Biermösl on tour through the noisy townships of the big cities to spontaneous neighborhood meetings and joint performances. And because Hansi, Stofferl and Michael Well are also curious and critical travelers, you learn a lot about apartheid, slavery and oppression in the film. And also about the African gumboot dance, which is strikingly similar to the Schuhplattler.
Back in Bavaria, the Biermösl Blosn, supported by Gerhard Polt, humorously teach their audience African things.
The gumboot dance was invented by black miners almost a hundred years ago when they had to toil in the gold and diamond mines of the apartheid state. Since it was strictly forbidden for them to speak underground - for fear that they would band together and rebel against their oppressors - the workers invented a special secret language: They slapped their rubber boots loudly once, twice or several times with the palm of their hand and communicated with each other in this way. Over the days it developed into a rhythmic dance, the Gumboot Dance, the "African Plattler".
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Chapters
▷ 00:01:30 - Intro
▷ 00:00:20 - Schuhplattln in Umtata
▷ 01:32:10 - Credits
#bavaria #gumbootdance #schuhplattler #africa #music
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Original title: Plattln in Umtata. Mit der Biermösl Blosn in Afrika
© 2007, Licensed by Peter Heller
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Documentaries about people and cultures from around the globe: wocomoHUMANITY offers high-quality content which is produced by leading production companies.
Check out our other channels to watch high quality documentaries:
▷ wocomoDOCS: youtube.com/wocomoDOCS
▷ wocomoWILDLIFE: youtube.com/wocomoWILDLIFE
▷ wocomoHISTORY: youtube.com/wocomoHISTORY
▷ wocomoTRAVEL: youtube.com/wocomoTRAVEL
▷ wocomoCOOK: youtube.com/wocomoCOOK
Wocomo HUMANITY is part of the Wocomo channel network by NIKITA VENTURES. Wocomo - wonderful content in motion.
