Cologne Kippa Köpp

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Cologne Kippa Köpp
(KKK)
purpose Maintenance of traditions and customs of the Cologne Carnival
Chair: Aaron Knappstein (Chairman)
Establishment date: 2017
Seat : Cologne
Website: kippakoepp.koeln

Kölsche Kippa Köpp (KKK) is a Jewish carnival association in Cologne .

founding

The association was founded in November 2017. It is the first Jewish carnival association in Cologne after the Second World War and probably also the first in all of Germany or even worldwide.

The name of the association is made up of Kölsche (in the Cologne dialect the term for Kölner), the term for the Jewish male headgear Kippa and Köpp, which also comes from the Cologne dialect and means "heads". Christoph Kuckelkorn , President of the Cologne Carnival Festival Committee , who supported the founding of the association, said of the re-establishment: “ Before the war, the Jewish Carnival had its permanent place in Cologne's Fastelovend. It is good that this niche has also been taken again. "

The first president of the KKK, Aaron Knappstein, explained: “The preservation of tradition is very important to us: At that time, Jews were active in the carnival, celebrated with non-Jews. And now they are back. I think showing normality always helps. That Jews not only occur when there are attacks, but also when there is a celebration. ”He emphasized that the association wanted to bring the carnival back into Judaism by founding it, because the majority of the community members in Cologne come from the former Soviet Union where carnival was unknown. The members are composed of parts of the liberal community , the Orthodox Jews and the secular Jews and thus present the broad spectrum of Judaism . He also explained: “Cologne Jews were always part of the diverse carnival life, but were not visible for a long time. With the Kölschen Kippa Köpp we would like to change this and at the same time bring the Fastelovend back to the Jewish community. "

In February 2019 the association had twelve members. Membership in the KKK is also open to people who are not of Jewish faith.

The logo of the Kölsche Kippa Köpp consists of three large interwoven “K”, the Cologne coat of arms and the coat of arms of the former association Kleiner Kölner Klub and is made up of the lettering Kölsche Kippa Köpp eV from 2017 and a transcription of “Kölsche Kippa Köpp” in Hebrew characters outlined. The members wear blue and white catkins . When you open it, you can see a star of David and a seven-armed chandelier on a red background . Next to it is the Hebrew text of a prayer for people who are traveling.

On Carnival Sunday, March 3, 2019, the first event took place in the rooms of the Cologne synagogue community .

History and tradition

The KKK sees itself in the tradition of the Jewish Little Cologne Bowling Club (also KKK), which was founded in 1922 and was actually a bowling club in its origins. From this a carnival club developed, which was renamed the Kleiner Kölner Klub . The founder and president was the textile wholesaler Max Salomon , who himself appeared in the Bütt ; his most famous figure was the "Kölsche Marktfrau". He emigrated to the USA in 1939 and organized “Rheinische Evenings” in Los Angeles . The other founder, Willi Salomon, emigrated to Palestine. The founding of a Jewish carnival club in Cologne at that time was probably also a reaction to the fact that some other carnival clubs no longer accepted Jewish members from the 1920s. The association was so well established in Cologne that the Cologne triumvirate of prince, farmer and virgin regularly attended the meetings of the KKK. In 1928 alone, the club organized several meetings and a festival ball. Public events of the KKK were known until 1930, in the following years public hall events were prohibited due to the general economic situation. The historian Marcus Leifeld assumes that from 1933 the members only met internally. At least three members of the KKK emigrated , at least two were deported and murdered.

activities

Members of the "Köpp" are also active in other carnival societies : The four board members belong, for example, to the Blauen Funken , the StattGarde Colonia Ahoj and the KG Alt-Köllen from 1883 . As a group, you also attend carnival sessions from other carnival clubs.

The first event of the new “KKK” was a carnival-style morning pint under the motto “ Falafel and Kölsch ” on Carnival Sunday 2019, followed by a guided tour of the Cologne synagogue .

Trivia

The Cologne musician Rolly Brings dedicated his own hymn to the Kölschen Kippa Köpp with the song “Shalom, Alaaf”.

literature

  • Marcus Leifeld : The Cologne Carnival in the time of National Socialism. From the regional folk festival to the propaganda instrument of the National Socialist community . Ed .: Werner Jung (=  series of publications of the NS Documentation Center . No. 18 ). Emons, 2015, ISBN 978-3-95451-405-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

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