Hermann Derschmidt

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Hermann Derschmidt (born February 15, 1904 in Kollerschlag ; † July 17, 1997 in Wels ) was an Austrian teacher and folk music researcher.

Life

Hermann Derschmidt graduated from the teacher training college in Linz and became a teacher at elementary and secondary schools in Upper Austria . In the various places in which he worked as a teacher at this time, he began to record songs, yodels, dance music and folk dances. In 1930 he decorated the first print of Our Yodelers with a swastika , in 1934 he was subject to a disciplinary investigation because of "National Socialist activities".

In 1939 he became head of the archive of the Gau Committee for Folk Music in the Gau Oberdonau , and later he took over the overall management of this Gau Committee. Derschmidt was a member of the NSDAP and an employee of the NS community Kraft durch Freude (KdF), after work department in Upper Danube. In 1941 Derschmidt was drafted into the Wehrmacht .

In 1948 he founded the influential folk dance group "Welser Rud". In 1956, together with Karl Horak , Franz Koschier, Herbert Lager , Hermann Lein as initiator, Franz Vogl and Richard Wolfram, he founded the Federal Association of Austrian Folk Dance (BAG), which in the same year selected dances as Austrian basic dances , which have since become the basis of folk dance training in all of Austria became.

Hermann Derschmidt was involved in many training courses for folk dance care, for example in the training course for folk dance of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Volkstanz in South Tyrol from 1960 or the Baden-Württemberg Folk Dance Week in Überlingen.

Son Volker Derschmidt and the other children are also involved in folk music.

honors and awards

Works

  • Dances from Upper Austria. State Institute for National Education and Homeland Care, Linz 1985
  • Hermann Derschmidt and Erna Schützenberger: Spinnradl. Our dance book. 5 episodes, 1959
  • Herbert Lager and Hermann Derschmidt: Austrian Dances. Österreichischer Bundesverlag, Vienna, 1959
  • About singing dances and dance songs in Upper Austria. In: Yearbook of the Austrian Folk Song Works, 1984
  • A "country clerk" from Laussa near Losenstein. In: Oberösterreichische Heimatblätter, 1982, online (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at
  • About local dance and its care in Upper Austria. In: Oberösterreichische Heimatblätter, 1980, online (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at
  • The singing movement in Upper Austria. In: The new covenant. 1966

literature

  • Erich Sepp: In memory of Hermann Derschmidt. Teacher, (folk) music researcher and curator from Wels (Upper Austria), * February 15, 1904, † July 17, 1997. In: Folk music in Bavaria. 1997.
  • Wolfram Tuschner: Hermann Derschmidt (February 15, 1904 - July 17, 1997). In: Yearbook of the Austrian Folk Song Works, 1998
  • Franz Meingaßner : Prof. Hermann Derschmidt is no more. In: Yearbook of the Austrian Folk Song Works, 1998
  • Johannes Unfried: An exemplary educator for young people. Hermann Derschmidt on his 60th birthday. In: Upper Austrian Culture Report, 1964

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Hermann Derschmidt (Ed.): Our yodelers. Without information on location or publisher, 1930
  2. ^ Joseph Bacher: The working group for house music in Austria before reunification with the Reich. In: Deutsche Musikkultur 1938 / II, Kassel 1938, pp. 151–154
  3. ^ Arnold Blöchl: Collecting, preserving, researching, cultivating (last part). Folk music collection and folk music research in Upper Austria. In: Quarter Time No. 4 (2005), page 9.4
personal data
SURNAME Derschmidt, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian folk music researcher
DATE OF BIRTH February 15, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Kollerschlag
DATE OF DEATH July 17, 1997
Place of death Wels (city)