KÖHV singers Waltharia Vienna

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KÖHV singers Waltharia

University singers

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Basic data
University location: Vienna
University / s: University of Vienna
Founding: November 19, 1928
Corporation association : Austrian Cartel Association
Entry into the ÖCV: 1957
Association number: 34
Abbreviation: Walth!
Position to the scale not striking
Color status : colored
Colours: blue-silver-green
Fox colors: blue-green-blue
Lid shape silver-gray velvet hat
Magazine: The bird pasture
Website: www.waltharia.com

The Catholic Austrian University Association of Singers Waltharia is a color-bearing, non-striking Catholic student association with a mixed choir in Vienna and a member of the Austrian Cartel Association .

connection

Waltharia is a member of the Austrian Cartel Association ÖCV . The university connection consists of male, Catholic students and academics who are referred to as "Waltharen". The name refers to the minstrel Walther von der Vogelweide . The singing was founded on November 19, 1928, the 100th anniversary of Franz Schubert's death , as a Catholic, Austria-loyal antithesis to the singing groups of the German national fraternities.

An important task of the association is the training of the student youth with a canon of values ​​that is based on the four principles of the ÖCV: scientia, patria, religio and amicitia . As Catholic couleur students, the Waltharen reject arms student duels or scales as a means of satisfaction . The colors of the boys' band are blue-silver-green , those of the fuxen band are blue-green-blue . The motto is: German in song and style . The KÖHV singers Waltharia in the ÖCV are committed to the Republic of Austria and its democratic constitution.

Choir

KÖHV singers Waltharia Vienna
Seat: Vienna , Austria
Carrier: Support association
Founding: November 19, 1928
Genus: mixed choir
Founder: Georg Gruber
Head : Martin J. Garand
Voices : 25 (SATB)
Website : http://www.chormusik.at/choere/saengerschaft-waltharia

With the alliance, a choir was also formed to which every member of the association belonged. The first choir master, Georg Gruber , wanted to organize a mixed choir of around 40 voices , which was achieved by inviting some choir ladies. The repertoire should be classical church music of the 15th and 16th centuries , but also the compositions of contemporary Catholic composers, who were hushed up because of their sentiments. The first performances were the German Mass by Franz Schubert in the university church on March 10, 1929, and the first performance of the great mass In medio vita by Karl Koch in Vienna on November 17, 1929 in the Mariahilfer Church .

Georg Gruber was appointed choirmaster of the Vienna Boys' Choir , Fritz Krull and Franz Burkhart were his successors at Waltharia. Under her leadership, particular highlights were the performance of Joseph Haydn's oratorio The Creation in 1932 in the Mariahilfer Church and in 1937 in the Schottenkirche as well as the performance of Anton Bruckner's cantata during the Bruckner celebration at the University of Vienna . In view of her achievements, Waltharia was awarded the title of university singer in 1937 by the Academic Senate of the University of Vienna .

With the dissolution of the connection in 1938, the musical life of the choir was interrupted. He was only able to come together again in 1948 under the new choir master Robert Filzwieser . The highlight of his musical activity was in 1952 the musical design of an academics fair as part of the reopening ceremony of St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna . The orchestra was provided by the Vienna Philharmonic .

From the 1950s the choir successfully took part in numerous choir competitions in Austria , Italy and Denmark . In 1969 the choir took third place (art song) at the International Choir Competition in Porcia Castle . The choir directors included Antal Barnás , Robert Kovács , Bruno Wind , Christoph Wutscher and Michael Zlabinger . According to the Austrian singer newspaper , “concerts, radio recordings and good placements in international choir competitions made the silver-gray student hats a branded item”.

Several compositions were dedicated to the singers, such as sets of student songs composed by Hans Bauernfeind and Augustin Kubizek , which were published in 1963 by Musikverlag Doblinger Wien.

To this day, the choir has dedicated itself to its founding ideas and regularly performs a wide repertoire of sacred and student songs at its own and other foundation festivals, celebrations or ceremonies. The choir also commissions compositions of contemporary Austrian choral music, most recently an Advent cantata by Paul Koutnik . Today its members do not only consist of color students, since the choir is open to all interested and talented choir singers.

The choir is a member of the Austrian Choir Association .

history

Inspired by a move on the occasion of the singers' day of the German Singers Association in Vienna , the Catholic Academic Singership Waltharia Vienna was founded on November 19, 1928, the 100th anniversary of Franz Schubert's death , as a subsidiary of the also Catholic student association KÖStV Austria Vienna . Although there were already a few striking singers in Austria, Waltharia was the first Catholic (and therefore non-striking).

National Socialism

After the “Anschluss” of Austria in 1938, connection operations had to be stopped in the 1938 summer semester. After a last concert on March 7th, the entire inventory was to be handed over to the NS student union . On March 10, the fraternity home was officially sealed. The house was then stormed and devastated by the SA . As a result, members of Waltharia's civil service were removed from their posts or transferred to Germany or the provinces. Waltharia's active members were called up for labor service and Waltharia was only able to hold their meetings in secret arrangements. On March 15, 1938, Gottfried Lerch founded the Nazi resistance movement Austro-European Resistance .

After Austria's liberation by the Allies , the connection was reactivated and appeared again in public for the first time on April 29, 1948 at an event of the Catholic Academy. On March 16, 1949, the first choir concert, a Mozart requiem in memory of the fallen, accompanied by the Tonkünstler Orchestra, was performed in the Wiener Konzerthaus .

Waltharia and the Austrian Cartel Association

Although not a full member, Waltharia, which is nominally free of associations, was perceived as belonging to the ÖCV and perceived as such by the public.

From the summer semester of 1957, however, in the light of shrinking activity, i.e. a decline in the number of new members, the position as a friendly association of the ÖCV was no longer viewed as a happy solution. After the management of the business had been handed over to the then Philistine Senior Rudolf Klein, efforts were made to join the ÖCV and an application was made to the CVV in 1957, which was accepted. Waltharia had to give up the exclusive character of a singers . From now on, the singing test was only required of those Waltharen who wanted to become a member of the choir. At the CVV 1958, Waltharia's final admission to the ÖCV was finally decided.

On June 4, 1957, the association addressed a request to the academic senate of the University of Vienna for the title of university singer . As a result of this request, the corporation was informed that the granting of this title in 1937 was still valid.

At the 600th anniversary of the University of Vienna, the university singers Waltharia performed the Ecce quomodo moritur by Jacobus Gallus .

In 1978, just in time for the 50th Waltharia Foundation Festival, the connection was elected to the suburb with an overwhelming majority. Waltharia exchanged friendship bracelets with the then suburb of the German Cartell Association , the KDStV Grotenburg zu Cologne, which results in a close contact between the two connections that still exists today. In 2012 the KDStV Grotenburg was merged into the KDStV Asgard. In addition, the KÖaV Floriana St. Pölten (included in the ÖCV 1979) was founded as a subsidiary , the parent of which is Waltharia.

The “Waltharia” has the unique selling point of the only Catholic singers among the 50 Catholic ÖCV connections and in the entire German-speaking area.

On January 12, 2019, representatives of all connections of the ÖCV unanimously elected the KÖHV singers Waltharia for the second time in their history. From July 1, 2019, the Waltharia team will head the Austrian Cartell Association . It has set itself the goal of making the Cartell Association more relevant by being willing to talk and focusing on content-related positions. Voluntary social engagement should also be promoted and valued more highly by the public.

Known members

  • Othmar Karas (* 1957), politician (ÖVP), Vice President of the European Parliament, President of the Austrian Aid Organization
  • Matthias Tschirf (* 1957), politician (ÖVP), club chairman in the Vienna State Parliament and local council
  • Manfred Waldenmair-Lackenbach (* 1956), communications consultant, author and visual artist
  • Karl Jurka (* 1952), political advisor in Vienna, Berlin and Paris, election campaign manager and federal organizer of the ÖVP
  • Günter Virt (* 1940), moral theologian, member of the Austrian Bioethics Commission and the Leading Ethics Commission of the Council of Europe
  • Edmund Freibauer (* 1937), politician (ÖVP), mayor of Mistelbach an der Zaya, regional councilor and president of the state parliament of Lower Austria
  • Richard Kaiser (1935–2019), politician (ÖVP), member of the National Council and member of the Federal Council of the Republic of Austria
  • Alois Mock (1934–2017), politician (ÖVP), Minister of Education, Foreign Minister and Vice Chancellor of the Republic of Austria
  • Otto Hittmair (1924–2003), physicist, President of the Austrian Academy of Sciences

literature

  • Waltharen sheets of the Catholic-Academic Singers "Waltharia". Vienna 1929/30.
  • The Vogelweide: newspaper of the K. Ö. HV Singers Waltharia. University singers. Vienna from 1978.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Silvia Kornberger: Students of the University of Vienna in the interwar period: Social situation, connections and politics - role and meaning of the Christian connection system. Grin-Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-640-24925-1 , p. 53.
  2. ↑ Paul Gerhardt Gladen , Ulrich Becker: Gaudeamus igitur: the student societies past and present. Callwey, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-7667-0811-2 , p. 235.
  3. ↑ Harald Haselmayr: Between choir singing and student group singing - the importance of singing in a student union using the example of the Waltharia university singers , dissertation at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna , 2011
  4. ↑ Neue Zeitschrift für Musik, Volume 103 , editor: Robert Schumann, Issue 12, p. 1495
  5. ↑ Aleš Votava: Catholic-academic singing “Waltharia” at a performance in the Vienna Musikverein. In: Archive of the University of Vienna . Retrieved April 15, 2016 ( Europeana picture document; 1945 (approx.) - 1959 (approx.)).
  6. ↑ chorbewerb-spittal.at (PDF).
  7. ↑ Österreichische Sängerzeitung : Born 1972, Vienna 1972, p. 13.
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  11. ↑ permalink.obvsg.at
  12. ^ Sheets for mixed choir. Doblinger publishing house, Vienna / Munich 1963.
  13. ^ Rainer Zitta: The six hundredth anniversary of the University of Vienna. University of Vienna , 1965, pp. 64 + 106 , accessed on April 15, 2016 .
  14. ^ President of the Austrian Cartel Association elected: Michael Bayrhammer. Retrieved May 25, 2019 .
  15. ↑ Michael Bayrhammer: Michael Bayrhammer elected President of the Cartell Association. Retrieved May 25, 2019 .
  16. ↑ Cartell Association has a new president. Retrieved May 25, 2019 .
  17. ↑ Alois Mock Biolex. Retrieved November 29, 2018 .
  18. ↑ Otto Hittmair Biolex. Retrieved November 29, 2018 .

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