Crottendorfer Sparrows
Crottendorfer Spatzen is a singing and home group from the Ore Mountains , which gained national fame through their interpretation of home songs .
history
In February 1938 the home group in Crottendorf in the Ore Mountains was founded by the local music teacher and organist Walter Schwarz. After Schwarz's death in 1959, the leadership was in the hands of Sigrid Süß (1930–2019), who had joined this vocal group in 1942. As a rule, the music group consisted of 15 women and girls who had dedicated themselves to the care of Erzgebirge songs in their native dialect. They attacked well-known titles u. a. by Anton Günther , Hans Soph and Max Nacke , but also interpreted their own titles.
Through the concert and guest performance management for the Karl-Marx-Stadt district , the Crottendorfer Spatzen were also obliged to perform outside the Ore Mountains. They had numerous appearances on radio and television, and not only at Christmas time. The radio program Advent in the Erzgebirge, which is broadcast annually during Advent, and from 1974 the television program O 'Arzgebirg , were regularly co-designed by the Crottendorfer Spatzen.
The Crottendorfer Spatzen were often accompanied on the zither by Joachim Suss from Crottendorf , who also wrote his own titles for this home group and set texts in Ore Mountains dialect to music. In 1972 he founded his own ensemble under the name Joachim Süß and his ensemble , with which he has since performed his own.
The Crottendorfer Spatzen designed countless folklore evenings for FDGB vacationers in the upper Ore Mountains. One of her best-known songs is Wenn es Raachermannel naabelt by Erich Lang , which can still be heard regularly in the Ore Mountains during Advent and Christmas.
In 1988 the Crottendorfer Spatzen celebrated their 50th anniversary. On this occasion, the Deutsche Post in Crottendorf used a special postmark.
During the GDR era, some of her titles were also released on long-playing records and music cassettes (for example on the Erzgebirgs-Christmas LP in 1974 and O Arzgebirg, wie bist du schie in 1988 ).
literature
- 30 years of “Crottendorfer Spatzen”. In: Der Heimatfreund für das Erzgebirge , 13, 1968, No. 4, p. 52.
- Crottendorfer Anzeiger , 13, 2003, No. 5, p. 13.
- Joachim Suess : Drham in the Arzgebirge: Joachim Suess - The Erzgebirge folk musician tells his life in stories and pictures . 1st edition. Erdenfest-Verlag, Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-9813337-1-8 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Neues Deutschland , edition of July 24, 1982