German singers

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The German Singers' Association is a German corporate association at 20 universities and colleges. It connects about 20 colored and facultative striking singers with a total of about 3,000 exclusively male members. He is a member of the German Choir Association . The colors are black-green-gold.

character

In its statutes, it has made the preservation of German cultural assets, the maintenance of music and choral singing its task. Singing and making music together should promote coexistence and community building within the individual corporations and the association.

The German singers are neither confessional nor politically bound. Citizenship is not a criterion for membership. The German singers expect their members to have an open attitude towards the cultural, social and political tasks of the time.

The member federations of the German Singers' Union bear color and give their members free choice whether they want to hit a scale or not.

history

A choral society was founded within the original fraternity in 1816 . With the dissolution of the Jena fraternity , this first purely student choral society also went out. The first independent student choirs (outside the Burschenschaft union movement) were in 1822 to St. Pauli Leipzig and at the Leopoldina Wroclaw as University glee club St. Pauli and Academic-in arts connecting Wroclaw founded.

The Academic Choral Society (AGV) was founded in Halle in 1825 and is to be regarded as the forerunner of the Fridericiana choir (1866) . In the following years, at about 20 universities and colleges to the establishment of musically oriented societies, but which by their nature, all distinguished ( colors Wear , scales , etc.)

The first German Singers Association took place in Dresden in 1865 . Many of the associations took part. The attempt to found an umbrella organization failed, however. A cartel agreement was signed in 1867 between the Berlin Academic Song Board and the Munich Academic Choral Society . This contract was followed by other connections, which led to the foundation of the Sondershäuser Association for non-colored connections with musical orientation.

The Leopoldina Breslau was the first to create colors in 1877. The Pauliner AGV at Jena University was the first academic choral society to introduce conference censorship in 1880. 23 clubs took part in the first German Academic Singing Festival in Salzburg in 1892 . An umbrella organization should be founded. It was decided to hold a second singing festival in 1896.

On the occasion of the 35th foundation festival of the Erato singers on July 5, 1896, a meeting of representatives took place in Dresden , in which more than 25 clubs took part. The German Academic Singers Association (DASB) was founded and the later DS and the Sondershäuser Association were finally separated. In 1901, after differences over the censorship , there were multiple entries and exits of the DASB. This year they reunited to form the Chargierten -Convent, Association of Colored Academic Choral Societies . The principles were the cultivation of German male singing, unconditional satisfaction and the rejection of the determination gauges.

In 1902 the term "singers" was introduced, which all clubs subsequently adopted. The name of the association was changed to CC, the association of color-bearing singers . Because of the fencing question, connections came out or re-established again and again. The CC's General Elder Association was founded in 1905. At the 3rd Federal Festival in 1906, Weimar was chosen as the permanent venue.

Due to the impressions of the First World War , there was again a rapprochement between the singers who reject and affirm the Mensur in 1919. More and more singers introduced the scale as a principle. On July 30, 1919, the Weimar Association of German Singers was founded . The main principle was the singing principle. Furthermore, the conference censorship was permitted, the determination censorship was forbidden and unconditional satisfaction was mandatory. Claims between singers were forbidden, the choice of the drum ratio was left free. A singers whose mother union rejected the conference censorship was not allowed to fight if he joined a "mensur-friendly" union. There were four semesters of compulsory activity, six semesters of choir compulsory (even when changing study locations). When voting, the votes were weighted according to the number of members.

The final name Deutsche Sängerschaft (Weimarer CC) (DS) was adopted in 1922, determination of censorship and the conclusion of cartels were permitted. In the 1920s there were further start-ups. Singing and training weekends were held (military sports, political training). There were talks between DS and the Sonderhäuser Association about cooperation between the associations. In 1934, the DS introduced mandatory gauging. Due to the political situation, the singers in Austria and Czechoslovakia were forced to resign in 1933 and continued to exist until 1938. The German choir was dissolved in Hanover in 1936 .

Also for political reasons, the four Austrian singers (Ghibellinen University Singers in Vienna, Technical and Academic Nibelungia Singers in Vienna, Gothia Academic Singers in Graz, Skalden Academic Singers in Innsbruck) had to leave the German singers. In the summer of 1933 they formed the Austrian Singers' Association (ÖS) .

The German Choir was founded again in 1951. The first singers' day took place in Goslar . Weimar was not yet accessible as a conference location, which is why the meeting was held at different locations. Singers who were unable to reconstitute themselves in their hometowns partly merged with other fraternities, and some did not reactivate at all. The association principles were retained except for the determination of the censorship adopted in 1934.

After the fall of the Wall in 1991, the first singers' day took place in Weimar after the Second World War. Weimar was again used as a conference venue every odd year. All Austrian singers resigned from the DS in 1992, mainly because of the non-acceptance of the singers' policy paper. The paper should interpret the DS constitution with regard to the points of member selection of the individual singers, choir work and compulsory drumming. However, the Austrian singing groups remain in the Weimar Interest Group (WIG) together with some German singing groups.

Presiding

Every year, the presiding singers for the coming year are elected on the singers' day. Most recently these were (2012) the singers Leopoldina Breslau zu Cologne, (2013) the singers Guilelmia Niedersachsen zu Freiburg im Breisgau, (2014) the singers Erato Dresden zu Darmstadt, (2015) the singers Frankonia-Brunonia Braunschweig, (2016) the singers Markomannen-Brünn zu Karlsruhe, (2017) the singers Gotia et Baltia Kiel zu Göttingen, (2018) the Prague university singers Barden zu Munich, (2019) the singers to St. Pauli Jena et Burgundia Breslau in Münster and (2020) the Singership Franco-Palatia Bayreuth.

Events

As part of its educational work, the German Choir, together with the Coburg Convent (CC), held all- German conferences (GDT) in Berlin from 1956 to 1990 . These conferences dealt primarily with the causes, the cultural, political and economic effects of the division of Germany and its possible overcoming and had the task of familiarizing active members (i.e. students) of the singing groups with this problem. After the opening of the inner-German borders and the accession of the GDR to the Federal Republic of Germany, DS and CC have been organizing student days in different university cities since 1992 .

organization

The German singer shank part as an independent association to the German Choral Association (Feb. 28, 2005 merged the German Choral Association ) on. Although the DS choirs are male associations according to their constitution, their special task enables them to integrate women into the singing work: Almost all of the 24 active choirs have mixed choirs.

Association chairman and executive committee of the DS are elected for two years at the annual singers' day held on Ascension Day (every uneven year in Weimar). The active singers are represented in the main committee by the speaker of the respective presiding singers.

Every year in the semester break, usually in the last week of August, a singers 'body organizes the so-called Singers' Week, during which a number of active and old men meet for a week in a holiday home or a youth hostel, usually organize a joint choir performance and hold social events . The week is traditionally ended with a Kommers. The 2008 singers' week had to be relocated from Potsdam to Mark Brandenburg due to threats from the Antifa .

The association magazine Deutsche Sängerschaft , founded in 1895 as an academic singer newspaper , reports quarterly .

Active member associations

As of January 1, 2009

Merged member associations

As of January 1, 2009

  • Breslau : Burgundia Breslau (1910–1935), now in Münster
  • Königsberg : Old Prussian singers (1921–1935), today in Göttingen

Independent old-man associations

As of January 1, 2009

Former honorary members

According to the current "Constitution of the German Singers" from December 2009, only colored connections can be members of the association, but not individuals. In this respect, there are no honorary memberships. Honorary memberships of individuals are possible in individual singerships.

  1. Paul von Hindenburg
  2. Erich Ludendorff
  3. Hugo Kaun
  4. Hans Grimm
  5. Erwin Guido Kolbenheyer
  6. Harald Lönnecker

Johannes Brahms, Franz Liszt and others were honorary members of an individual singers 'body, not of a singers' corporation . Most of the singing associations (DASB, CC, MCC, WCC) did not have such honorary memberships. The German singers did not begin to appoint honorary members until 1922.

literature

  • Ernst Hans Eberhard : Handbook of the student liaison system. Leipzig, 1924/25, pp. 221-224.
  • Paulgerhard Gladen : The German-speaking corporation associations . WJK, Hilden 2014. ISBN 3-933892-28-7 . Pp. 189-204.
  • Harald Lönnecker: The German Singers' Association (Weim. CC) and their predecessor associations. Former and current singers in the German Singers Association (Weim. CC) , Wilhelmshaven 1995.
  • Harald Lönnecker: Finding aid of the archive of the German choir (Weim. CC) (1896-1936) , Koblenz 2001 (= publications of the archive of the German fraternity. New series, issue 2).
  • Harald Lönnecker: The archive of the German singers (Weim. CC) , Koblenz 2001 (= publications of the archive of the German fraternity. New series, issue 3).
  • Harald Lönnecker: Literature on the history of the German choir (Weim. CC) and the individual choirs , Koblenz 2001 (= publications of the archive of the German fraternity. New series, issue 4).

Web links

Commons : Deutsche Sängerschaft  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dr. Reinhold Reimann, "Die Österreichische Sängerschaft" in "Acta Studentica", episode 48/1993, p. 5
  2. ↑ Singers Erato is presiding ( Memento from February 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ a b Harald Lönnecker : When heroes become problems. Hindenburg and Ludendorff as honorary members of academic associations . GDS Archive for University and Student History 6 (2002), pp. 30–41.