Sports ensemble Elsterwerda
The TSC Sportensemble Elsterwerda is a sports club in the small town of Elsterwerda in southern Brandenburg in the Elbe-Elster district . The ensemble, founded in 1953 as a sports advertising group , is regularly represented at the International German Gymnastics Festival and has become known through numerous television appearances at home and abroad. The stage program is a mixture of gymnastics and gymnastic as well as acrobatic performances, which is supported by the inclusion of music, dance, designed spoken texts and skits. Members of the sports advertising group were the main actors in the children's film “Destination Erfurt” in 1962 .
history
The Elsterwerda sports ensemble was founded in February 1953 by the then twenty-three year old teacher Rolf Hirschnitz as a sports advertising group with initially ten children. The aim was to attract and develop young talent for the sections of the BSG "Lokomotive Elsterwerda". The training facility was initially the "House of Young Pioneers ", which was set up in February 1951 in the former "Hummel Club House" and today's "Town House" opposite the Elsterwerda town hall . With the associated hall with a stage, the building offered reasonably useful conditions for the training and rehearsals of the troops at the time. The first appearances at various events, in companies or in hospitals soon followed. Just one year later, the Elsterwerda district champions of the Cottbus district and the city quickly became a center for sports advertising groups in the GDR . In 1955, the GDR master title finally followed at the 2nd pioneer meeting in Dresden.
In 1962 the DEFA children's film "Destination Erfurt" by Heinz Fischer attracted a lot of attention. The main actors in the film were, among others, members of the Elsterwerda sports advertising group. The script for the film was written by the writer and former Elsterwerda student Klaus Beuchler together with Fred Rodrian . In addition to the actors from the city, the director Heinz Fischer and Klaus Beuchler came to the Elsterwerda premiere in the city cinema on June 7, 1962.
Ten years after its founding, the sports advertising group was able to book around 450 appearances in front of around 675,000 visitors and had participated several times in various radio networks and live broadcasts on German television .
With the opening of the new Polytechnic High School in Elsterwerda-West in the 1968/69 school year, the sports ensemble moved from the pioneer house in downtown Elsterwerda to a new training center, as a new gymnasium had also been built with the school and Rolf Hirschnitz became a sports teacher here.
The turning point in 1989/90 brought about major changes . The previous structures in organization and financing were broken down. The sports ensemble broke away from the previous company sports community and the "gymnastics and sports club / sports ensemble" was founded.
The Elsterwerda sports ensemble has appeared at more than 4,000 events in front of over three million spectators since it was founded in 1953. So far, eight European countries have been visited. There were appearances in Berlin's Friedrichstadtpalast and in various television programs at home and abroad, such as the popular GDR entertainment program “ Ein Kessel Buntes ” and the sports program “ Mach with, do it yourself”, hosted by Gerhard Adolph ( Adi for short ) , do it better ”or the“ Jiří Korn Show ”in Prague . Further highlights for the sports ensemble were a ten-minute performance at the Olympic ball on August 21, 1980 in the Berlin Palace of the Republic and a tour along the Druzhba natural gas route . In addition, in addition to numerous other successes at GDR championships, a total of twenty gold medals were won.
Awards (selection)
In 1962 the Elsterwerda sports ensemble was awarded the “Friedrich Ludwig Jahn Medal” by the German Gymnastics and Sports Association. It also carried the title of "Merited Folk Art Ensemble of the GDR". The long-time director of the sports ensemble, Rolf Hirschnitz († 2006), was honored by the DTSB with the title of Master of Sports .
Training groups
In TSC Sports Ensemble Elsterwerda training groups are currently active following: Rhönrad , acrobatics , gymnastics , gymnastics , children's gymnastics , jump rope , jump rows , Minitramp and artistic cycling .
literature
- Rudolf Riedel: Elsterwerda sports advertising group at the forefront… In: Working group for local literature in the German Cultural Association Bad Liebenwerda (Ed.): Local calendar for the Bad Liebenwerda district . Bad Liebenwerda 1964, p. 133-136 .
- Author collective: Sportensemble Elsterwerda 1953–2003 . In: Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Heimatkunde e. V. Bad Liebenwerda (ed.): Home calendar - For the country between the Elbe and Elster . No. 55 . Gräser Verlag Großenhain OHG, Bad Liebenwerda 2003, p. 104-112 .
- Margarete Noack: Elsterwerda - When the chimneys were still smoking. Photo documents from the years 1949–1989 . 1st edition, Leipziger Verlagsgesellsch., Leipzig 2004, ISBN 978-3-910143-14-2 .
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References and comments
- ↑ Sports Ensemble Elsterwerda. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Klaus Beuchler . In: Two thousand and one lexicon of international film
- ↑ 40 years of school in Elsterwerda-West . 2008.
- ↑ 2010