Association of German Carnival

The Bund Deutscher Karneval e. V. ( BDK ), based in Cologne, was founded on October 24, 1953 in the Electoral Palace in Mainz as the umbrella organization of the German Mardi Gras and Carnival associations . He is a member of the Foolish European Community (NEG). The main purpose of the association is the "promotion of carnival customs", which includes the support of the organization of carnival meetings, the street carnival and the promotion of carnival offspring.

history

"The Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda (had), together with the Reichsfremdenverkehrsverband and the NS-Gemeinschaft Kraft durch Freude (invited ...) the representatives of the carnival clubs for an international carnival congress in Munich on January 16, 1937. The congress finally led to the amalgamation of the carnival societies from around 50 large German carnival cities and communities in the newly founded Bund Deutscher Karneval . ”With the beginning of the Second World War , the carnival expired. The BDK experienced its rinascita in January 1953. For a long time, the time was not ripe for a critical examination of the instrumentalisation of Carnival customs .
In 1972 the Regional Association of Carnival Corporations Rhein-Mosel-Lahn eV separated from the BDK and continues today under the name Rheinische Karnevals-Korporationen parallel to the regional association Rhein-Mosel-Lahn.

structure

The carnival in Germany is structured in a similar way as the sports clubs , which are organized in city and district associations as well as in state associations nationwide, but each association has its own special way of celebrating the crazy time. These species can partly overlap and are partly similar, but often have different origins.

Regional associations

The regional associations maintain the carnival on a traditional and regional basis. The regional association is the representation of the BDK in the area of the association. He advises and helps the carnival associations, maintains contacts with politics and the public . He attaches particular importance to the promotion of tournaments for carnival performances and maintains an extensive archive for the documentation of the carnival tradition in the association area.

List of regional associations

The BDK is divided into 35 regional associations:

Association headquarters	Surname	Establishment date	Represented associations	Members (direct)	Members (total)
Aachen	Aachen Carnival Committee e. V.	February 11, 1829
Bergheim	Carnival Association Rhein-Erft e. V.	1957	160
Bergisch Gladbach	Regional Association Rhein-Berg e. V. (Carnival)	1957	69	70	approx. 8,000
Berlin	Carnival Association Berlin-Brandenburg	July 16, 1990	142
Bonn	Regional Association Rhein-Sieg-Eifel eV (RSE) (Carnival)	December 10, 1954	346
Book	Narrenring Main-Neckar e. V.	5th February 1951	43		approx. 12,500
Dessau	State Association of Saxony-Anhalt (Carnival)	April 1992	178
Dortmund	Bund Ruhr-Karneval e. V.	March 23, 1963	114		more than 10,000
Dresden	Association of Saxon Carneval e. V.	March 4th 1990	205
Düren	Regional Association Düren e. V. (Carnival)	17th October 1957	96		approx. 13,000
Dusseldorf	Düsseldorf Carneval Committee	1825
Duisburg	Regional Association of the Right Lower Rhine in the Bund Deutscher Karneval e. V.	May 31, 1968	115		about 10,000
Erfurt	Landesverband Thüringer Karnevalvereine e. V.	June 23, 1990	315		24,000
Eschweiler	Carnival Committee of the City of Eschweiler e. V.	1850	22nd
Hanover	Carnival Association Lower Saxony e. V.	July 16, 1978	over 100
Herzogenrath	Association of Carnival Associations Aachener Grenzlandkreise e. V.
Kiel	North German Carnival Association e. V.	May 15, 1955	35
Cologne	Festival committee of the Cologne Carnival of 1823 e. V.	1823
Krefeld	Regional Association Left Rhine Carnival e. V.
Lauingen	Regional Association of Bavarian-Swabian Fastnachtsvereine e. V.	November 29, 1980	118		21,000
Leverkusen	Regional Association Leverkusen-Rhein-Wupper (Carnival)
Mainz	Interest group Mittelrheinischer Karneval e. V.	February 5, 1946
Munich	Upper Bavaria Regional Association (Carnival)
Muenster	Federation of Westphalian Carnival e. V.
Nabburg	Association of East Bavarian Carnival Societies V.
Nuremberg	Fastnacht-Verband Franken e. V.	23rd August 1953	240	1,000	35,000
Kehl on the Rhine	Ortenauer Narrenbund e. V.	1981	57
Saarbrücken	Association Saarland carnival associations e. V.
Schwerin	Carnival regional association Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania	May 25, 1990	81		approx. 5000
Speyer	Association Badisch-Pfälzischer carnival associations e. V.	October 10, 1937	370		80,000
Stolberg (Rhld.)	Carnival Committee of the City of Stolberg e. V.
Stuttgart	State Association of Württemberg. Carnival clubs e. V.	March 29, 1958
trier	Regional Association Rhein-Mosel-Lahn e. V. (Carnival)
Vellmar	Carnival Association Kurhessen e. V.
Wuppertal	Association of Rheinisch-Bergisch-Märkischer Carnival Societies eV	1949	70		approx. 2500
Würselen	Association of Carnival Associations Aachener Grenzlandkreise eV	1956	160

Dance tournaments

The Bund Deutscher Karneval is the organizer of the German championship in carnival dance sport.

Youth work (BDK youth)

The Bund Deutscher Karneval-Jugend ( BDK-Jugend ) is the umbrella organization of 35 carnival youth and state associations in the Bund Deutscher Karneval eV with around 700,000 members. It represents the interests of children, adolescents and young adults in politics, culture and society.

The Bund Deutscher Karneval-Jugend is a non-profit, non-partisan and non-denominational umbrella organization that is active in the field of cultural and political youth work.

The Bund Deutscher Carneval-Jugend was founded on June 20, 2009 in Cologne.

Medal of Honor

1982: EV Altes Zeughaus Mönchengladbach

German Carnival Culture Prize

The German Carnival Culture Prize was first awarded in 1993 on the occasion of the 40th birthday of the BDK. Prize winners were so far

1993 Dr. Werner Mezger (Mardi Gras researcher)
1996 Dr. Dietz-Rüdiger Moser (university professor)
1999 Dr. Max-Leo Schwering (Carnival Researcher)
2002 Hans-Joachim Schumacher (former director of the German Carnival Museum)
2005 Manfred Merz (visual artist)
2008 Wolfgang Oelsner (author and carnival philosopher)
2011 Günter Schenk (publicist and author)
2014 Reinold Louis (traditional researcher)
2017 Michael Euler-Schmidt (Deputy Director of the Cologne City Museum )

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Thomas Töller: 150 years of Aachen Carnival Association founded in 1859 eV 1859 With foolish cheerfulness AGAINST ANIMAL SERIOUS 2009. Kuper Eschweiler 2009, p. 124.
↑ Töller, p. 144.
↑ Who we are. In: Bund Deutscher Carneval-Jugend | BDK youth. Retrieved September 12, 2019 (German).
↑ Käte Schreur: Visit to the Carnival Museum “Altes Zeughaus” (PDF; 6.2 MB), pp. 33 and 34, accessed on February 7, 2013.
^ Simone Winkelhog: Euler-Schmidt receives the German Carnival Culture Prize. City of Cologne - Office for Press and Public Relations, December 21, 2016, accessed on December 21, 2016 .

[1] Thomas Töller: 150 years of Aachen Carnival Association founded in 1859 eV 1859 With foolish cheerfulness AGAINST ANIMAL SERIOUS 2009. Kuper Eschweiler 2009, p. 124.

[2] Töller, p. 144.

[3] Who we are. In: Bund Deutscher Carneval-Jugend | BDK youth. Retrieved September 12, 2019 (German).

[4] Käte Schreur: Visit to the Carnival Museum “Altes Zeughaus” (PDF; 6.2 MB), pp. 33 and 34, accessed on February 7, 2013.

[5] Simone Winkelhog: Euler-Schmidt receives the German Carnival Culture Prize. City of Cologne - Office for Press and Public Relations, December 21, 2016, accessed on December 21, 2016 .