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Academic Choral Society Munich

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Basic data
University / s: TUM , LMU , HM
Founding: 01/12/1861
Place of foundation: Trinkhalle des Löwenbräu, Bayerstrasse, Munich
Corporation association : Association of special houses
Colours:
Type of Confederation: Men's association
Position to the scale : not striking
Motto:

Honor our ornament,
song the banner,
deed our word,
God our hoard!

Total members: 600
Active: 70
Website: www.agv-muenchen.de

The Akademische Gesangverein (AGV) Munich founded in 1861 is a musical, non-colored, but colored (pink-white), non-striking student association .

description

Despite its atypical name, the Academic Choral Society is a student association that works together in music and theater. The term “ Academic Choral Society ” was very common among student choirs of the 19th century. The AGV Munich is the last to still bear this name today. Together with the Akademische Liedertafel Berlin (today Academic-Music Association Berlin ), he is a founding member of the Special Houses Association of Academic-Musical Associations , in which only musical associations are members. In addition to the student music association Blue Singers Göttingen (also part of the Sondershäuser Association ), the AGV Munich is the only student association that maintains its own symphony orchestra .

The members are divided into Fuxen , lads and old men and bars are struck. Instead of the usual circle , the association has a lyre in its coat of arms. The AGV is neither politically nor religiously oriented. As a musical student association, the AGV operates two choirs , two symphonic orchestras , a symphonic wind orchestra , a jazz band , a big band , two theater groups and an improv theater . With around 70 active students and 600 old men, the AGV Munich is now the largest student association in Germany.

history

Founding time

In 1861 students who wanted to sing together founded the Munich Academic Choral Society. In contrast to most of the associations of that time, its founders wanted the AGV to stand out not politically but through cultural achievements. Already in its first statute it was defined as a non-colored, non-striking and non-denominational corporation . Out of friendship with other musical connections, the Sondershäuser Association was established in 1867 as the umbrella organization. After the first members of the Academic Choral Society had finished their studies, the Philistine Union was founded in 1874 . In 1890 the Scholastika restaurant in Ledererstrasse was acquired as a club house for the up-and-coming club.

The First World War

In 1914 the "Alte Scholastika" became too small for the club and it was decided to build a new clubhouse on the same site, which could already be occupied in October 1915. After the war, however, the economic situation was desolate: During the First World War, 158 of the more than 2,200 members had fallen, and the coffers were empty due to inflation. The Scholastica became the official residence of the US Vice Consul, Robert Daniel Murphy. The great room was rented to the post office.

20s and 30s

The AGV managed to maintain a reasonably normal club life in the troubled 20s. During the hyperinflation of 1923, however, the Philistine's semester contributions rose from 1,000 to 20 million marks (October 2, 1923). As early as 1930 things went downhill again due to the global economic crisis, and the students' financial situation deteriorated. During this time there was also a concert for the unemployed in Munich, so that they were not completely excluded from enjoying culture. In order to counter the increasing nationalization, the AGV organized the “First International Student Meeting” in 1932. The Yale Glee Club, the Obelic Choir from Yugoslavia and the Budapest University Choir took part. The guest of honor was the US Consul General Murphy, who invited the AGV to the 1933 World's Fair in Chicago, but this was made impossible by the takeover in 1933.

The second World War

During National Socialism, student associations were subject to great pressure to adapt. The AGV tried to maintain independence and property, but could not prevent a "forced Aryanization" and the transformation into a Nazi comradeship. By the beginning of 1934 two federal brothers had fallen victim to the Brown Terror. Although here, too, Confederate brothers were on the side of the rulers as well as their opponents, there was no denunciation within the association. The traditional life of communion was hindered more and more even before the war; the Second World War then brought it to a complete standstill.

post war period

From January 30, 1933 to May 8, 1945, 149 members were killed, 34 were missing, but the house was only slightly damaged. The association was re-established on September 26, 1946, but was not recognized until 1948. In 1948 it was then also possible to secretly found a new Aktivitas, which grew to over 150 members by 1951. In order to improve the reputation of the German student associations abroad again, the AGV invited members of the International Student Club (ISC) to a "guest bar" in 1952. In 1954 there was another international student singers' meeting in Munich, where the university choirs Helsinki, Stockholm and Belgrade, the Yale Glee Club and the AGV gave a concert in the Herkulessaal of the Munich Residence. In the 50s and early 60s, the liaison events returned to the traditional level, with the highlight being the 100th Foundation Festival in 1961.

Since the 60s

The year 1968 brought many discussions in the AGV; some SV member unions also began to accept women. After long discussions, the AGV Munich decided to stay true to the founding idea of ​​a classic student union. Today all the artistic activities of the AGV are mixed, but the sponsorship lies with the student union, which offers organizational and financial consistency through its life alliance principle. In 2011 the AGV celebrated its 150th foundation festival with a performance of Carmina Burana in the Herkulessaal and a theater production in the riding hall (own play and music).

Scholastika fraternity house

Scholastika House in the center of Munich
Large hall on the third floor of the Scholastica

The AGV owns the "Scholastika", a representative building in the city center, which houses one of the largest private stages in Munich.

The city model by the wood turner Jakob Sandtner from Straubing provides the earliest evidence of the building on Lederergasse to the east of the Pfisterbach and the ducal Zerwirkgewölbe on the other bank. The house shows itself as a simple structure, parallel to the Pfisterbach, as a two-story gabled house. It is five axes wide and accessed from both gables; access from the long side cannot be seen. Since then, the house has been known as the Thürlbad. Its use as a bath also indicates that until the middle of the 19th century (1848) it was mainly owned by wound and country doctors or baths. For the Thürleinbad, however, there is also evidence of a deeply deepened basin underground, which came to light when the house was demolished in 1914.

In 1863 Johanna Hoermann, a private widow of Bogenhausen, acquired the entire property (Ledererstrasse and Münzstrasse) as well as a servitude that authorized her to run a café and the permit to run it on the property. Therese Weber, a private widow from Großhadern, who had owned the house before, bought property and servitude back in 1868 and sold everything in 1872 under the name “Cafe Scholastika” to Peter and Barbara Semmelmaier from Mehring (Friedberg district). Two years later, they leased the servitut for running the café to the Munich restaurateur Christian Bonnet for a year. After the death of her husband in 1879, Barbara Semmelmaier sold the entire property including the servitute on December 15, 1881 to Christian Bonnet and his wife Maria, husband of the hotel. After they were allowed to convert their license for the café into a license for a pub, the “Zur Scholastika” tavern was run at this point with a garden.

In 1890 the Philistine Association acquired the forerunner of today's club house in order to finally have secure opportunities for holding a successful club life and to end the frequent change of club premises. The previous owners, the Bonnets, handed over the house to the Philistine Association on June 1, 1890, with the right to run a restaurant in it. The first and larger construction project was the construction of a two-storey hall extension. For this, the beer garden had to give way, the property was completely built over. The hall had a field ceiling and in the center a rectangular glass dome light as an iron construction, a bowling alley on the side on the ground floor and above it a gallery for the hall. In the northern part of the extension a podium was planned with an adjoining room and a staircase to the basement as well as an exit to Münzstraße.

The AGV now had its own hall for around 250 people, where many of the events taking place during the semester such as pubs and Kommerse could take place. The first floor of the residential building remained unchanged as the Scholastika public restaurant with the entrance from Ledererstraße. You could still get into the stairwell via the footbridge along the Pfisterbach, from which the upper floors of the house could be reached. On the first floor there was the parlor, a meeting room and the Philistine of the Philistine Association as well as a room that was rented to the artist society “Hell”. On the second floor there were two rented apartments. It can be assumed that the attic was also used.

Great hall of the Scholastika during construction work in the winter semester of 1914/1915

In 1907, the city's magistrate developed the plan to vault the Pfisterbach from Münzstraße almost to Hofgraben, as had already happened in the front part. This project was of crucial importance for the survival of the scholastics. This was inevitably linked to a redefinition of the building lines, as Sparkassenstrasse was to be continued in the same width. On the one hand, this was associated with significantly improved accessibility for the house, but on the other hand, the size of the property was reduced, because the building line was reduced by an average of 1.40 m. The property, which was not very wide in itself, was therefore almost unbuildable for the purposes of the Philistine Association and the intended spatial program. When the opportunity arose to acquire the neighboring property at Ledererstrasse 24, the association took action and acquired the house in December 1910. On June 20, 1911, the board of directors of Rasp presented two drafts for the construction of a new club house at a general meeting after the foundation festival.

After some preparatory work, the demolition of the Old Scholastica began at the end of July 1914 and was completed at the beginning of September. In November, the masonry in the area of ​​the first floor was created, which was followed by the surrounding wall of the mezzanine floor at the end of November. Apparently there was no interruption due to winter temperatures, because the walls of the second floor were laid out at the beginning of January and the alignment for the roof was made, so that at the end of January the roof structure could already be erected. In May 1915, the plastering work began in the basement and continued until the end of April, then the external plastering work, which was completed in mid-June. The internal expansion works are mentioned for July.

The connection's dormitory is located on the first floor of the house, lounges on the second floor and the large hall with one of the largest private stages in Munich on the third floor.

Groups of muses

In the AGV, the individual musical activities are carried out by groups of muses. These include:

  • Young orchestra
  • Big orchestra
  • Symphonic wind orchestra
  • Big Band
  • Young choir
  • Big choir
  • Choir of the Damned
  • Young theater
  • Large theatre
  • Impro theater group schlAGVertig

Known members

Membership card of the Academic Choral Society Munich

literature

  • Georg Leidinger : History of the Academic Choral Society Munich 1861-1911. Munich 1911
  • Gabriele Luster: Art connects - and not beer: two choirs, two theaters, two orchestras and one big band - the Academic Choral Society is 150 years old , in: Münchner Merkur , July 6, 2011
  • Hermann Ude (ed.): The SV student. Handbook for the Association of Special Houses. Kartell Association of German Student Choral Societies. Hanover 1903, pp. 116-121.
  • Joachim Wilkerling , Achim Block and the Association of Alter SVer as editors: 100 years of the special houses association of academic-musical connections. 1867-1967. Festschrift of the association of special houses. Aachen 1967, pp. 129-130.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Munich Latest News (Ed.): Thürleinbad found . 4th December 1914.
  2. ^ Heinrich Habel, Johannes Hallinger, Timm Weski: Landeshauptstadt München - Mitte (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Ed.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume I.2 / 1 ). Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-87490-586-2 .
  3. ↑ schlAGVertig | Improvisational theater, improvisational theater, comedy. Retrieved December 1, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Max Planck and the AGV ( Memento from December 17, 2019 in the Internet Archive )

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