Trier Carnival Society Heuschreck
| Trier Carnival Society Heuschreck (KG Heuschreck) |
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| purpose | Maintenance of traditions and customs of the Trier Carnival |
| Chair: | Niko Mohr (President) |
| Establishment date: | 1848 |
| Number of members: | 550 |
| Seat : | trier |
| Website: | www.heuschreck.de |
The Trier Carnival Society Heuschreck von 1848 eV is the oldest association in the Trier Carnival .
founding
In the revolutionary year of 1848 the association was founded under the name "Trier Carneval Society". The main initiator of the founding and the first carnival prince was the cigar manufacturer and revolutionary Andreas Tont , who left the company in 1850 because his revolutionary ambitions did not get enough response there. Similar to the Cologne and Mainz carnivals , the pseudo-military bustle was to be understood as a parody of Prussian militarism . Fantasy uniforms and carnival medals satirized the appearance of Prussian soldiers. However, under the influence of the Parisian February Revolution of 1848 , the carnival hustle and bustle in the year of the revolution took place only to a limited extent. The current name "Heuschreck" was created around 1850, taken from the text of the "Locust Song" sung in the carnival.
development
The association soon developed into a social institution of the upper middle class of Trier. In 1856 the locust organized the first carnival parade . By 1878 the membership had grown to 350. Balls and meetings were very popular with the population. The second half of the century was marked by constant ups and downs in club life. In 1889, for example, the “Young Locust” split off under its President Julius Woytt, only to end the rivalry after only four years and to take over the exhausted “Old Locust”. This restored the unity of society. Woytt held the presidency (including the “young locust”) for 41 years until his death in 1930. At the turn of the century, the society experienced a heyday under his leadership: in addition to cap meetings and masked balls, revues were performed, composed and arranged by Louis Scheuer for the first time . In 1914 Scheuer arranged the last revue before the First World War put an end to this heyday of the locust.
It was not until 1920 that the first attempts to revive the carnival were made, which, however, were initially banned by the district government due to the need of the people. In 1924 Scheuer performed the first revue after the war, but the Locust did not manage to tie in with the time before the war. After the seizure of power, the fascists tried to convert the carnival into a "folk festival for National Socialists ". The Locust has been brought into line , members of the Nazi party had in the "Little Council" shall be added and the few sessions and balls were of the Nazi organization Strength through Joy organized. Despite a pompous Rose Monday procession organized by the Nazis in 1939, carnival life came to a complete standstill in the war years. Numerous Jewish members of the Locust had to flee or were deported. Louis Scheuer also suffered the fate of many Jewish fellow citizens. Although he survived persecution by the National Socialists, he did not appear in a carnival style until his death in 1958.
In 1947 the carnival began to awaken again. A year later, in the hundredth year of existence, the first meeting after the war took place in the Trevirissaal, to which the people crowded en masse. Visitors had to bring their own alcoholic beverages, but many were not allowed in due to the overcrowding of the hall. Walter Mayer became the new president and held the office from 1948 until his sudden death in 1963. In 1958, the Elferrat and building materials dealer Erich Sartor founded the Senate in the "Heuschreck", and for the first time in the following year, on the 111th anniversary of the KG Heuschreck session to support financially. To this day, the Senate has made a significant contribution to maintaining the life of society during the session, but also outside of the “fifth season”.
Of the many handmade paper speakers , which produced the Locust, here are mentioned only "Koorscht un Kneisjen" (Werner Becker and Hans Kuhn), which across decades in Trier dialect local politics took a bead on. In addition to other Trier originals (Wichshänsjen, Fischers Maathes and Krons Ton), the two are depicted on the locust fountain, which the company handed over to the city of Trier in 1977.
The locust has lived in its own clubhouse since 1982. The initially dilapidated former customs house on Katharinenufer, built in 1815, was completely renovated and today serves as an archive and meeting point for the Elferrat , Senate and active members.
Todays situation
The association now has around 550 members. In the session there will be four ceremonial sessions and a children's ball as well as participation in the Rose Monday procession with your own car. During the whole year further activities complement the club life. In addition to the board of directors, there is the Elferrat, consisting of around 40 members who, among other things, organize the meetings and preside over them in different formations (11 each). Over 70 personalities from politics, business and society are represented in the Senate, whose task it is to support those active. The active members include the hand-made orators and musicians (including the Leiendecker Bloas ), the dance guard and the locust choir (with Thomas Kiessling ).
literature
- Louis Scheuer: The source of jokes an inexhaustible fountain of funny foolishness Lectures, songs, stage performances - The best of the best from the archive of the Carnival Society "Heuschreck" Trier - Edited and edited by Louis Scheuer Hofpoet Sr. Foolish madness of the Prince Carnival and member of the little one Council of the Society "Heuschreck" , self-published by the author, Trier 1908.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://www.heuschreck.de/historie/
- ↑ The historical data come largely from: Albrecht, Jutta and Thomas: The Heuschreck phenomenon - 150 years of trier, foolish, critical . Trier 1998, passim.
- ^ Zenz, Emil: Andreas Tont - carnivalist and revolutionary . Trier 1979.
- ^ Zenz, Emil: The last 111 years of the carnival society Heuschreck Trier 1848 eV Trier, 1982, p. 40ff.
- ↑ Albrecht, Jutta and Thomas: The Heuschreck phenomenon - 150 years of trier, foolish, critical . Trier 1998, p. 75.
- ↑ Cf. the chapter “The fate of Louis Scheuer” in: Albrecht, Jutta and Thomas: The Heuschreck phenomenon - 150 years of trier, foolish, critical . Trier 1998, p. 82f.
- ↑ https://www.heuschreck.de/senat/
- ↑ Entry on Heuschreck-Brunnen (1) in the database of cultural assets in the Trier region . - Entry on Heuschreck-Brunnen (2) in the database of cultural assets in the Trier region ; accessed on September 25, 2019.