Office for Christmas carols
The office for Christmas carols , based in Graz, is the only information point in Europe on the topic of Christmas carols and Christmas customs with a database of more than 30,000 entries.
Location and activity of the office
The office for Christmas carols was founded in 1991 by Hermann Härtel as a service point for the Styrian folk song factory. It is located in the city center of Graz at Sporgasse 23 in the house of the Styrian Heimatwerk and has a branch in Mariazell . The head of the Graz facility is the Austrian musicologist and folk music researcher Eva-Maria Hois (as of 2015).
The Christmas Carol Bureau is the only one of its kind in Europe. The office's database contains around 30,000 entries on songs, texts, poems, sayings, melodies, shepherds and nativity plays on the topics of Christmas and Advent . In addition to older and newer Alpine folk music, foreign-language and folk songs , spirituals and pop songs as well as information on Christmas customs in German-speaking countries are also available.
Since it was founded, the office has been open for a good four weeks each year during Advent . During this time, the facility receives up to 50 inquiries a day - by phone, in person or by email. Inquiries for forgotten parts of text, sheet music or song translations into exotic languages come from all over the world. The office service is free.
Not only the media in Austria, but also German newspapers such as Die Zeit , the radio station WDR4 , Deutsche Welle and the television station n-tv have already reported on the office for Christmas carols in Graz.
See also
literature
- Wormer, Holger and Filser, Hubert: Schöne Bescherung , Herder, Freiburg, 2004, ISBN 978-3-451-28539-4 , p. 119
- Yearbook of the Österreichisches Volksliedwerk , Volume 52, Österreichischer Bundesverlag for Education, Science and Art, Vienna 2003, ISSN 1013-056X .
- News: Politics, Money, Scene, People , Issues 45–48, VerlagsgesembH & Company KG, Vienna 2007, p. 435
Web links
- Song service of the Styrian folk song factory
- Christmas song register of the Styrian folk song factory
- Article in the Wiener Zeitung
- Article in the Tagesspiegel
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c The office for Christmas carols on steirisches-volksliedwerk.de, accessed on November 29, 2015
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original dated November 12, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Office for Christmas carols at mariazeller-advent.at, accessed on November 29, 2015
- ↑ Wish song at the office for Christmas carols , article by Carola Faber on wellness-tribune.de, accessed on November 29, 2015
- ^ Office for Christmas carols… lonely wacht , Interview by Cosima Schmitt with Eva Maria Hois , December 25, 2014 on zeit.de, accessed on November 29, 2015
- ↑ Broadcast contribution Graz in Advent ( Memento from November 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) from November 25, 2015, accessed on November 29, 2015
- ^ Office for forgotten Christmas carols , report from December 23, 2005 by Maren Hellwege-Beck on dw.com, accessed on November 29, 2015
- ↑ Silence under the Christmas tree - office for Christmas carols helps , report from December 20, 2010 on n-tv.de, accessed on November 29, 2015
