Ernst Busch Choir Berlin

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Ernst Busch Choir Berlin
Seat: Berlin / Germany
Founding: 1973
Genus: Veteran choir
Head : Daniel Selke (* 1983) and
Kurt Hartke (* 1935)
Voices : approx. 75 ( SATB )
Website : http://www.ernstbuschchorberlin.de

The Ernst Busch Choir Berlin e. V. is a mixed Berlin senior choir that has existed since 1973. He maintains the tradition of the German and international workers' singer movement since the second half of the 19th century. The repertoire also includes songs by Hanns Eisler , German and foreign folk songs as well as works by Beethoven , Mozart and Handel . The choir performs up to twenty times a year (as of 2012). He has around 75 singers (as of 2013) and is a member of the Berlin Choir Association and the German Choir Association .

Choir story

The choir was formed after a suggestion by the singer-songwriter Reinhold Andert (* 1944) when the veterans present enthusiastically sang old songs from the labor movement at a performance by the October Club in 1973 . It was founded on April 18, 1973 with 50 singers as a choir of Berlin party veterans , at that time with the approval and support of the Berlin district leadership of the SED . The choir made its first appearance on July 22, 1973 at a kick-off event for the 1973 World Festival of Youth and Students in the Kosmos cinema in Berlin under its director Walter Riedel (1902–1978).

The choir took the name of the singer and actor Ernst Busch (1900–1980) in 1983, three years after the artist's death. In the course of the 1980s the number of members rose to 65. From its inception to 1988, the choir sang 340 times in front of an estimated 25,000 listeners. One of the highlights was an appearance at the Festival of Political Song on February 11, 1985, together with the actor Erwin Geschonneck and the singers Lin Jaldati and Jürgen Walter .

With the foreseeable end of the GDR , the choir was renamed the Ernst Busch Veterans Choir in February 1990, and in April 1990 adopted a democratic statute and was registered as an association . In April 1991 the name Ernst-Busch-Chor Berlin was adopted. On May 3, 1992, the first concert in unified Germany took place in Berlin-Hellersdorf . In 1997, 113 songs were part of the permanent repertoire, 37 of which were political, 40 folk songs, 17 art songs and 14 from other genres . Since 1995, the concert for Ernst Busch's birthday has been the annual highlight of the choir in January. This has been taking place in the Russian House of Science and Culture in Berlin-Mitte since 2008 , is performed twice and is always sold out.

Movies

  • Participation of the choir in the feature film Ernst Thälmann , Part 2 (1986) with the song Roter Wedding
  • DEFA -Documentary film We're from the young to the old (1985, directed by Irina Gregor)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Self-presentation in the program for the 2013 annual concert on January 19 and 20, 2013
  2. ↑ Calendar of performances on the choir homepage
  3. ↑ Festschrift for the 40th anniversary, January 2013, p. 10
  4. ↑ Festschrift for the 30th anniversary, April 2003
  5. ↑ Festschrift for the 40th anniversary, January 2013
  6. ↑ Festschrift for the 40th anniversary, January 2013, p. 58 f.
  7. ^ Film Ernst Thälmann (GDR, 1984-1986) on filmportal.de