Carnival Committee

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The Fasnachts-Comité (often just Comité , but also called the Official Fasnachts-Comité ) is the official organizer of the Basel Carnival .

Tasks of the committee

The Carnival Committee organizes the Cortège every year on Carnival Monday and Wednesday afternoons in Basel . Furthermore, the Comité endeavors to create reasonable framework conditions for the entire carnival . By issuing a carnival plaque ( Fasnachtsblaggedde ) and collecting campaigns , the Comité procures the necessary financial means to be able to subsidize affiliated groups based on performance (see also: Problem ). In addition, every year, shortly before the carnival, a carnival guide is printed in the form of a booklet called "Rädäbäng". This lists all groups with their subject and further information.

Around the carnival

Before the carnival, the Comité is responsible for the organization and execution of the Monstre drum concert ( Drummeli ) and is responsible for the official Basel award drums and whistles. After the carnival, there will be the new lecture , a program for the promotion of young people, in which numerous hands-on activities for masking larvae (mask building) and painting, lantern painting and of course for drumming and whistling are advertised.

Information events are offered for newcomers to Basel. The tasks of the committee also include maintaining contacts with the active carnival participants from all groups.

Furthermore, one is always in conversation with the committees of the interest groups (IG Gugge, FG Gugge, IG Wage, IG Tambouren- und Pfeifergruppen, IG Chaise and also the Schnitzelbank-Comité ) and maintains friendly contacts with authorities and other institutions (government, police Department, BVB , Building Department, Basel Tourism).

The Comité has its own carnival archive, with older documents being entrusted to the Swiss State Archives .

history

In the 1850s, an association called Quodlibet began to organize the carnival. Later the Wurzengraber-Kämmerli took on a similar function for the Kleinbasel. Both associations organized and influenced essential elements of the Basel Carnival. With the big drum concert in 1906, the pre-carnival event later known as Monstre or Drummeli was brought into being. From 1911, a united Carnival Committee was responsible for the organization of the Basel Carnival for the first time. In the same year the Comité also introduced the carnival badge. In 1911 it was available for fifty centimes. 40,000 badges (attachable badges) and 5,000 medals with ribbons were sold. Half of the proceeds went to the committee, while the rest was donated to poor children. At the same time, a printed carnival guide appeared for the first time ( known as Rädabäng from 1949 ).

Problem

Not all cliques and carnival groups have come together under the Carnival Comité. Since it is an important part of the Basel Carnival to hold the mirror up to the authorities and to draw their attention to grievances, some groups find it difficult to subordinate themselves to an organization that regulates, evaluates and controls. Others, on the other hand, are dissatisfied with the performance of the carnival committee and have founded their own committees (e.g. Comitée2000).

In addition to order and structure, the organized carnival also brings many regulations and guidelines, which is met with strong resistance in some places. For example, marching routes and times are precisely prescribed and monitored at the Cortège. Another point that causes displeasure is the performance-related subsidization, which uses a non-transparent model to evaluate the performance of a carnival group during the respective carnival and accordingly subsidizes it. Among other things, the choice of subject and its implementation have an influence.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stammvereine, old and young garden, drum and piper groups, Guggemusiken, carriages, chaise, small groups as well as individual masks.
  2. ↑ http://www.altbasel.ch
  3. ↑ http://www.comite2000.ch/