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:
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 )
See also
- Carnival, Mardi Gras and Mardi Gras
- Carnival, Mardi Gras and Mardi Gras strongholds
- Jacques Koenigstein
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 .