Gonsenheim Carneval Association
| Gonsenheim Carneval Association (GCV) |
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| purpose | Customs care |
| Chair: | Martin Krawietz |
| Establishment date: | 1892 |
| Number of members: | about 800 |
| Seat : | Mainz |
| Website: | www.gcv-mainz.de |
The Gonsenheim Carneval Association "Schnorreswackler" 1892 eV (GCV) is the second oldest and largest carnival association in the Mainz district of Gonsenheim .
Together with the Mainz Carneval Club , the Mainz Carneval Club and the Kastel Carnival Club, the association is responsible for the television session Mainz remains Mainz , which is broadcast annually by ZDF and ARD and reaches an audience of millions in German-speaking countries.
Association (current presentation and positioning)
The original founding name was "Spar- und Karnevalsverein Schnorreswackler" . The name "Schnorreswackler" stems from the fact that the founding fathers wore mustaches (in the Mainz dialect: Schnorres ) in 1892 - all of them in the Wilhelmine tradition - which, in the heat of the moment, could get quite violent when laughing outside the campaign. In 2011 the GCV had around 800 members and around 120 active members. The association not only organizes meetings and balls, but also participates in the street Carnival in the state capital Mainz , for example in the Mainz Rose Monday procession or the cap ride on Shrove Tuesday. Together with the Mainz Carneval Club , the Mainz Carneval Club and the Kastel Carnival Club, the association is also the sponsor of the television session " Mainz remains Mainz ", which is broadcast annually by ZDF and ARD and reaches an audience of millions in German-speaking countries.
Since the GCV does not have its own guard , the association cooperates with the Gonsenheim Fusilier Guard , founded in 1953, as part of a foolish axis . The guard, which has more than 700 members (the largest independent guard in Mainz), has everything that can be mobilized for the Mainz Hall and Street Carnival: officers and amazon corps, a modern music procession, large equestrian corps, flag and majorette corps, cadet corps, a legion of honor as well as guard ballet and children's ballet.
Events (activities during carnival and street carnival)
At the GCV on 11.11. With the “Gonsenheimer Kammerspiele” the curtain has already been lifted in two events in order to show and test what the upcoming campaign could bring in an imaginative framework. Depending on the schedule, it starts shortly after the New Year with one or two meetings in the electoral palace in Mainz . Another six or seven sessions then rise in the large gym of the 1861 Gonsenheim gymnastics community.
Since 2011, after an interruption of almost 20 years, the association has revived the tradition of a joint meeting with the KCK in the Rheingoldhalle in Mainz. At the television session on the Friday before Shrovetide, the GCV is there with active people on and behind the stage. On Shrove Saturday, the GCV organizes a large masked ball (since 2013 "THE BALL - Night of Fools" ) in all rooms of the gym in Gonsenheim. The youngsters are addressed with a children's mask festival in the middle of the campaign.
The standing, which was introduced in 2011 and has since taken place on the Thursday before Old Women Thursday, is another highlight of the Gonsenheim Carnival. With its predominantly musical program, it appeals more to younger fools. Standing (and dancing) is the order of the day. Mainz Carnival activists from various associations and bands from various musical genres who are suitable for Carnival play and sing on the stage.
The GCV takes part in the street carnival in the state capital Mainz with four large train wagons and a motif wagon, always accompanied by hundreds of uniformed men from the Fusilier Guard Gonsenheim. The GCV sends delegations for the guard parade or the Mainz youth mask parade .
history
When exactly the first Schnorreswackler sat together and did their nonsense, nobody knows anymore. The fact is, however, that from 1892 they officially went public as the “Schnorreswackler Spar- und Karnevalverein” . Her regular bar was at “Xaver” (Becker) in Gonsenheimer Grabenstrasse. The founding meeting took place in the house of the master magician Heinrich Amman at Grabenstrasse 46.
The handful of enterprising founders who were tried and tested on Mardi Gras were: Jakob Franz Amman, Paul Amman, Franz August Becker, Franz Xaver Becker, Franz Josef Gahr, Franz Gebhardt, Karl Gebhardt, Joseph Kloos, Jakob Willigis Ludwig, Franz Georg Oehl, Eduard Rathgeber, Anton Schwam and Franz Living. Franz Hoffmann was the first president.
Vocal performances have always been very popular with the GCV. Even in the early years there were changing singing groups who foolishly glossed local and world events. It also parodied operetta scenes and placed great emphasis on grotesque comedy.
And even in the early years there must have been a lot of interest in the Schnorreswackler meetings: You soon felt that the hall in the club's "Xaver" club was too small. In 1909 the change of scenery took place in the “Zum Löwen” inn and later in the “brewery” .
During the First World War and the inflation period (1923 to 1925), Mardi Gras took a back seat in Gonsenheim . The fact that the club survived proves that a tradition had already formed in the 1920s that they simply wanted to continue. The active members of the CV “Schnorreswackler” were probably friends even back then, beyond the foolish times. They celebrated the festivals as they came and spent the little free time together with men's parties, get-togethers and social evenings. After all, Gonsenheim was still a manageable and independent municipality and the carnival in Gonsenheim was only of local importance.
The association grew in the inter-war period, and so did the number of meeting attendees, and so in 1931 the gym on Breite Strasse became the Narrhalla. From 1931 onwards, with a view to the weighty Mainz Carneval Association (MCV), it was only called Gonsenheim Carneval Association or GCV. The Schnorres initially seemed "out". While Mardi Gras was still under French censorship in the 1920s, political statements became increasingly impossible in the 1930s. With the beginning of the war, all activities at the GCV were also stopped. Even before the GCV reappeared in 1947, a group came together that was to influence the further development of the association and to ensure that GCV Carnival was no longer a purely local matter: the "Gonsbachlerchen".
The Mainz Garden not only adorns the Rose Monday procession , they are also needed at every meeting to escort the entry of the committee . Until 1953, the GCV committee was regularly escorted by a delegation from the oldest Mainz guard, the Mainz Ranzengarde . At the beginning of 1953 the idea of founding a Gonsenheim Guard was born. When the naming was completed, the statutes were prepared and the uniform design was ready, the founding meeting could take place on March 20, 1953. While studying history, one came across the Hessen-Kassel Fusilier Regiment No. 80, which had besieged Mainz in 1689 in order to drive out the French. At that time the fusiliers had launched their attack against Fort Hartenberg from the Gonsbach valley. In 1953, the first active members of the guard were won over and dressed immediately, and on January 23, 1954, 19 proud fusiliers in their uniforms accompanied the GCV committee onto the stage to the sound of the fool's hall march. In 1955 the Gonsenheim Carnival Association, the Gonsbachlerchen and the young fusilier guards joined forces to form the "foolish axis".
In 1964 it was possible to set up a second vocal group. 12 singers got together and appeared in public for the first time in the 1965 campaign as "Schnorreswackler". The Schnorreswackler have always known how to engage outstanding musical leaders and also to integrate young up-and-coming singers, so that the vocal level of the group is at a high level and the Schnorreswackler are still a very young troupe even today - after almost 50 years. Just in time for the turn of the millennium, there was also a generation change among the Schnorreswackler. The acquisition of trained singers and the new, professional musical direction led to a symbiosis of traditional Carnival and conviviality as well as unusual stage shows and perfect singing. At the beginning of the seventies, a long-cherished wish of the GCV came true: a separate house for the office, consultation rooms for board and committee meetings, a house as a meeting place, for association work, but also for celebrations. And when an old villa was up for sale on Gerhart-Hauptmann-Strasse, the strike was made in April 1971.
A hall for the train cars, which until then could be parked at the MCV during the year, was also one of the club's wishes. Although the old virtue from the founding years as a savings association was revived and mark to mark, it was not easy to implement the hall plan in the eighties, despite television income, good financial management and many donations. A plot of land on the Hemel was acquired, the reallocation and development awaited. Immediately afterwards it started quickly. Due to the prefabricated construction of the hall, initiative on a large scale could not be considered. However, despite the failure of the 1991 campaign due to the Second Gulf War, the financing of the hall was able to be financed more quickly than expected. In addition to the hall, a clubhouse with a hall was built. B. can also host the general meeting.
What seems self-evident in ballet, that young women always dance on the stage, does not necessarily apply to the other active people on the stage. At the GCV, however, there was also a generation change here in the nineties, which had already been indicated in the decade before. After the "Fassenacht im Saal und auf der Gass" had been canceled in 1991, the GCV celebrated its 100th anniversary in 1992. In the following years, the association succeeded in building up new talents from its own ranks or introducing them to the association in addition to the tried and tested speakers, singers and groups that have been known for years. As a second vocal group besides the Schnorreswacklern six young men have performed successfully at the GCV under the name “Aca & Pella” under the musical direction of Tobias Mann . And something else has changed in the last few years, something that hardly any meeting attendees (consciously) noticed: the Bütt , actually the classic foolish lectern, is only used by the recorder in Gonsenheim.
The GCV and "Mainz remains Mainz" (TV session)
Since 1954, the Gonsbachlerchen, albeit with the Mainz Carneval Association , have been an integral part of the Mainz community meeting as it sings and laughs on ARD . After the ZDF was founded , this broadcaster also wanted to broadcast a carnival session and when the Gonsbachlerchen left the MCV before the 1968 campaign because 23 sessions were almost unbearable, the turning point and entry came: ZDF committed the GCV and thus the larks as its active on TV Carnival in the second . Then, for a couple of years, both broadcasters had two meetings lasting several hours. But then you had to realize that there was not enough substance for it. ZDF and ARD merged MCV, MCC, KCK and GCV and to this day broadcast the joint meeting alternately under the name Mainz, Mainz remains as it sings and laughs . The GCV has been on the screen for over 50 years. In addition to the larks, the Gonsenheimers always provided lectures, soloists and also the snorkelers. The district of Gonsenheim has become known nationwide.
President
| from | to | Surname |
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| 1892 | 1895 | Franz Hoffmann |
| 1895 | 1898 | Franz Gebhardt |
| 1898 | 1901 | Adolf Becker |
| 1901 | 1902 | Franz Georg Oehl |
| 1902 | 1906 | Adam Robert Spengler |
| 1906 | 1907 | Philipp Werum |
| 1907 | 1914 | Philipp Secker |
| 1915 | 1922 | - no club activity - |
| 1922 | 1922 | Franz Georg Oehl |
| 1923 | 1924 | - no club activity - |
| 1924 | 1926 | Franz Georg Oehl |
| 1926 | 1939 | Jean Seib |
| 1939 | 1947 | - no club activity - |
| 1947 | 1950 | Franz Lenert |
| 1950 | 1952 | Jupp Ammann |
| 1952 | 1953 | Hanns Pohle |
| 1953 | 1961 | Ernst Kraushaar |
| 1961 | 1972 | Julius Pietsch |
| 1972 | 1982 | Hugo Schuth |
| 1982 | 2001 | Karl-Heinz Steingötter |
| 2001 | 2016 | Horst Ernerth |
| 2016 | today | Martin Krawietz |
Board of Directors and Committee (description of tasks)
The GCV board consists of eleven people, ten of whom are elected every three years by the general assembly. Only the chairman of the meeting is a “born” member of the board due to his or her duties. Otherwise, the board consists of the association president, the managing director, the treasurer, the secretary and six other assessors, who are all responsible for certain areas of responsibility. The board organizes the carnival activities of the GCV, takes care of the economic aspects of the non-profit association, looks after the members, appoints and appoints members of the committee and the “Grand Council” and represents the association in public.
The committee elsewhere Elferrat called, sits down at the GCV predominantly earned assets of the association together, of which ten decorate together with the President of the sitting at the committee table the stage and the President in the management of the carnival session support. The GCV has around 40 male committee members, who alternate in their duties and also represent the association at the meetings of other associations.
literature
- Hermann-Dieter Müller: Everything you always wanted to know about Gonsenheim. A handbook on Gonsenheim past and present , Leinpfad Verlag; 1st edition, ISBN 3-94229-117-7
- Günter Schenk : Mainz remains Mainz. Carnival on TV - Carnival for Millions , Leinpfad Verlag; 1st edition, ISBN 3-93778-219-2