Saxon mountaineering choir Kurt Schlosser

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Saxon mountaineering choir Kurt Schlosser
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Seat: Dresden / Germany
Founding: 1927
Genus: Male choir
Head : Axel Langmann
Voices : 140 (TTBB)
Website : www.bergsteigerchor.de

The Saxon mountaineering choir "Kurt Schlosser" Dresden was founded in 1927 . The choir consists of 140 male voices. The repertoire includes classical and contemporary works as well as traditional mountaineering, hiking, local and folk songs.

history

The choir was originally founded as the singing department of the tourist association "The Friends of Nature - United Climbing Departments Saxony / VKA" in the Dresden "Keglerheim". Its first conductor was Kurt Lauterbach . The first concert took place on February 14, 1928.

The choir has been called " Kurt Schlosser " since September 10, 1949. Kurt Schlosser, born in 1900, was a member of the VKA himself. At the time of National Socialism , the choir was banned and many choir members went illegally . Some mountaineers and choir members organized the anti-fascist resistance as red mountaineers under the direction of Kurt Schlosser in various large Dresden companies . The red mountaineers set up a rock cave in Saxon Switzerland near the rock "Satanskopf" in the eastern part of the Affensteine as a secret office and hiding place.

After his arrest on December 3, 1943, Kurt Schlosser was executed by guillotine on August 16, 1944 . Other mountaineers and choir members, such as Fritz Hoffmann and Rudi Lattner , also fell victim to the Nazi justice system.

With the end of National Socialism in 1945, the choir resumed its singing activities. In the years 1975 to 1990 the choir received great support from the Reichsbahndirektion Dresden . Since 1990 the choir work has been continued as the Saxon mountaineering choir "Kurt Schlosser" Dresden eV .

Appearances

First appearances in Dresden followed in 1932 on a tour abroad to Czechoslovakia .

In the GDR there were appearances in the Dresden Hygiene Museum and later regularly in the Dresden Palace of Culture . The annual concerts that are usually sold out were and are regularly a “cultural highlight” for friends of the mountains and choir singing.

Thanks to the quality of the choir, he performs at home and abroad and on television and radio. For example on the television of the GDR in the programs “ Goldene Note ”, “ Alles singtes ”, “ Ein Kessel Buntes ”, on the ARD in the programs “ Magical Home ” and “ Melodies for Millions ”. Its tours have taken the choir to the former socialist countries Poland , Bulgaria , ČSSR , DPR Korea , USSR , but also to the " NSW ". The choir performed several times in West Germany (1967, 1968, 1978, 1979, 1980). Since the fall of the Wall , appearances have followed in Switzerland , Austria , the USA and Canada , as well as in Italy . In the period from 1969 to 2000 the choir had around 150,000 guests at its national and international appearances.

Programs

The choir's repertoire ranges from humor and atmospheric building evenings to classic mountain members on natural and art stages. One of the special features of the concerts in the Kulturpalast Dresden is the motto: B. “The mountains are calling us” (1995), “Comrades in the mountains” (2002), “A year in the mountains” (2005).

Mountain singing

Since its inception, the choir has also sung in the great outdoors in the Elbe Sandstone Mountains . Because of the rush of listeners and the associated problems for nature, the national park administration demanded a different location for mountain singing in 1995. Since then, traditional mountain singing has taken place on the large meadow at the foot of the Kleinhennersdorfer Stein every year on the 2nd Sunday in September at 3 p.m. The new location for the “Bergsingen” was chosen because the hut of the mountaineering choir has been in Kleinhennersdorf since 1928 . The choir also performs in Kleinhennersdorf when the annual maypole is set and on the festival site at the winter solstice .

Monuments

The sculptor Walter Howard created a sandstone relief in 1982 that commemorates the 1st German Worker Mountaineering Caucasus Expedition in 1932. The singers and alpinists Hans Damme (second tenor), Franz Ruge (second bass), Hans Donath, Willi Facius (both second tenor) and Walter Saalfeld (first tenor) took part in this expedition.

In 1987 Walter Howard created a 2.40 meter high, one ton stele made of Bad Liebenwerda clay. The shape and shape of the stele are reminiscent of a rock needle as it occurs in Saxon Switzerland. On the sides of the stele, the resistance struggle of the choir members at the time of National Socialism and the resurrection of the choir after the end of the Second World War is shown.

Both monuments are in front of the choir hut in Saxon Switzerland .

Choir conductors

  1. Kurt Lauterbach
  2. Martin Kuehne
  3. Richard Eissler
  4. Wolfgang Berger
  5. Werner Matschke
  6. Heiner Vogt
  7. Christian Möbius
  8. Alfred Kalcher
  9. Karl Heinz Hanicke
  10. Axel Langmann
  11. Gernot Jerxsen
  12. Christian Garbosnik

Music CDs / LPs

Records released in the GDR :

  • "Greetings, you proud mountains": AMIGA 845100
  • "Mountain friendship ": ETERNA 815090

CDs:

"The mountains are calling us"
with 22 mountain and hiking songs, nine of which are arranged by Werner Matschke .
"Mother Homeland - Songs of the Nations"
with 25 songs from nine countries.
"Up to the summit"
Released in 1998, on the occasion of the choir's 70th birthday in 1997, with 18 tracks as a recording.
"Comrades of the Mountains"
On November 24, 2002, two gala concerts for the 75th anniversary of the choir took place under the patronage of Dresden's Lord Mayor Ingolf Roßberg in the Dresden Kulturpalast . Delegations of 15 friendly choirs from Bulgaria, Austria, the USA and Germany were present as guests of honor in the concert. The CD is an excerpt from these two anniversary concerts.
“Naturally classic | classic natural "
Released in 2005. This is a recording of the concert with the Neue Elbland Philharmonie on June 9, 2004 in the festival hall of the Kulturpalast Dresden . Soloists are Marlen Herzog (mezzo-soprano) and Jochen Kupfer (baritone). Bergsteigerchor chief conductor Axel Langmann and general music director Peter Fanger conduct 15 tracks "from Mozart to Montanara".
"People who love the mountains"
Released in 2007 for its 80th anniversary. The title song was composed and arranged by Axel Langmann for the mountaineering choir based on a text by Goethe. The selection of the 27 tracks are almost exclusively mountain and hiking songs that have hardly been put on record so far. Many songs were written in collaboration with the choir.
"Summit view"
Mixture of traditional choral literature and modern songs.
"Panorama"
Released in 2016 - “Best of” the choir both a cappella and with instrumental accompaniment or symphony orchestra

Videos

  • "Up to the summit - Fascinating Elbe Sandstone Mountains"
  • "Bergheimat Oberlausitz - A hike with the mountaineering choir 'Kurt Schlosser'"
  • "Magical East Erzgebirge - On the way between Weesenstein and Zinnwald"
  • "75 years of the Saxon mountaineering choir" Kurt Schlosser "Dresden"
  • "Fascinating Dresden"
  • "Here today - there tomorrow" - the last annual concert in the "old" ballroom of the Kulturpalast Dresden 2011 - a recording on video DVD and audio CD in a double pack.
  • “90 Years of the Mountaineering Choir” - the anniversary concert in the new concert hall of the Kulturpalast Dresden 2017 - recording on DVD and for the first time also on Blu-ray disc

Children's choir

The pioneer and youth choir of the mountaineering choir Kurt Schlosser was a mixed children's choir. It was founded in 1964.

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  1. ^ Pictures in the Deutsche Fotothek
  2. ↑ From our club history. Saxon mountaineering choir "Kurt Schlosser" Dresden e. V., accessed on November 11, 2018 .

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