University singers Barden zu Vienna

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The University Singers stem Bard Vienna is a color-bearing , optional beating , musical fraternity in Vienna . It emerged from the merger of two connections in 1950 and traces its history back to the “Academic Singership 'Ghibellinen' zu Wien (AGV in Vienna)”, founded in 1920 as the successor to the Academic Choral Society in Vienna (founded 1858), since May 6, 1924 Holders of the honorary title “University Singers” on the one hand and the “Wiener Technisch Akademische Sängerschaft Nibelungen”, founded in 1919 as the successor to the “Technical Academic Choral Society at the Imperial and Royal Technical University in Vienna” (founded 1892) on the other. It bears the colors red and white on a silver background (the colors of the Ghibellinen University Choirs in Vienna, which in turn go back to the colors of the Academic Choral Society in Vienna, which are inspired by the colors of the University of Vienna ), plus a blue breakthrough (referring to on the blue and white colors of the technical-academic singers Nibelungen in Vienna) on a silver background. The fox ribbon bears the colors red and white on a white-red background.

History of the university singers 'Ghibellines' in Vienna

Music-loving lawyers formed a song board in the apartment of Ministerialrat Karl von Enderes (* January 6, 1788 in Teschen ; † October 6, 1860 in Kremsmünster ) , which under the young choir director Rudolf Weinwurm also undertook singing excursions to the nearby Vienna Woods . In 1856 it was decided to set up an academic choral society in "Holländerdörfl" Neuwaldegg .

After the approval of the statutes of the Academic Choral Society at the Imperial and Royal University of Vienna (AGV), which was applied for in 1857 and approved in 1858, the club started operating, which in the first few years, according to the annals, concentrated on singing, including concerts and singing trips to the surrounding area Vienna ( Greifenstein 1860, Krems 1861) give testimony.

The first steps in the direction of a corporation were taken in 1863, when university graduates could remain members of the association and no longer had to leave it after their studies, which gave the AGV in Vienna the character of a life union .

After establishing friendly relations with the academic choral societies of other cities in what is now the Republic of Austria (German Academic Choral Society Graz, Academic Choral Society Innsbruck), the AGV in Vienna opened to listeners from other Viennese universities. In the following decades, the Academic Choral Society acquires through large-scale musical performances under the direction of leading contemporary musicians an ever more prominent position in the circle of the Viennese educated middle class, which honorary memberships still famous and at least then nationally known personalities proclaim such as those of Richard Wagner (1872) Theodor Billroths (1872), Anton Bruckners (1889) Georg Reimers ' (1892) and Ignaz Machaneks (1902). At the turn of the century, it had long been recognized as a driving force in Viennese musical events, and in 1904 a clear majority adopted full colors after tapes had already been recorded in 1902. Over the decades, in addition to its musical work, the AGV in Vienna had become a travel and social club for the bourgeois-liberal movement and its numerous sub-currents (partly German-liberal, partly German-national), which resulted in large, luxurious social trips in 1909 (Mediterranean trip) as well as 1910 (America trip) precipitated.

Suddenly brought to an end by the First World War, corporate life in Vienna soon flourished again in the first post-war years, albeit under different circumstances. The years 1918 to 1920 are marked by the transformation of the AGV in Vienna into the Academic Singership 'Ghibellinen' in Vienna, also by the entry into the German Singers Association (Weimarer CC) and by the granting of the right to paint at the University of Vienna (which was still refused in 1905 had been), combined with participation in the first post-war color stroll.

In the further years of the interwar period, which was full of political turmoil and upheavals, the student association, which has been holding the title of “university singers” since 1924, quickly regains a prominent position among the national, striking corporations, as well as in the color student events of the now federal capital in general. This was achieved through active participation in local canteen events as well as through the professional and social achievements of its members, with the honorary membership of the then Federal Chancellor Johann Schober and the awarding of the Nobel Prize for Medicine to Julius Wagner v. Jauregg are to be regarded as outstanding.

In the year 1931 there was a widespread affair, called "Seipel-Partien" or "Seipel-Mensuren" in the Viennese corporation at the time, in the course of which the singers were faced with 23 heavy saber marks. The reason for these contracts by other corporations united in the Vienna Waffenring was that the singers, at the threat of the University of Vienna to withdraw the honorary title of "university singers" in the event of a refusal, had participated in the honorary doctorate of the former Federal Chancellor Ignaz Seipel , which was for derogatory Remarks about beating corporations had been known.

The conversion of a property acquired in 1928 and (as a novelty in what was then Vienna) the adaptation to a corporation house deliberately planned as such in 1932 can be seen as a major step taken in such a development phase by a federation with hundreds of wealthy members at that time towards spatial and organizational independence, whereby this property, known as the 'Ghibellinen House', was to survive the Second World War and the associated air raids on Vienna a few years later undamaged - in contrast to the corporation house of the technical-academic singers Nibelungen.

The musical successes of the then more established of the two Viennese singers 'associations include numerous successful performances of the "Heiteren Viersanges der Universitätssängerschaft' Ghibellinen 'zu Wien", which was launched in 1921, the numerous participation in the 10th German Singers' Association in Vienna in 1928 as well as numerous concerts in the most prestigious venues the federal capital.

After the dismissal from the German Singers' Union (Weimar CC) in 1933 due to the increasing political differences between the clerical-fascist-authoritarian ruled Republic of Austria and the Nazi-totalitarian German Reich, there was no such narrow form until then known, close cooperation of the German singers in Austria. The publication of the magazine “Student und Lied”, which began in 1933 as a common organ for all German singers 'associations in Austria, and the construction of the common singers' home in Feld am See, which began in 1934, are evidence of this period that still exists today to be mentioned in Upper Carinthia.

In direct connection with the " Anschluss of Austria " to the Third Reich , the Austrian student associations were dissolved by the Nazi regime, the university singers 'Ghibellinen' zu Vienna was forced to shed their colors on June 8, 1938 and the Nazi regime in the comradeship "Ulrich von Hutten" was forcibly transferred. Many choir houses and other properties are illegally expropriated. Since the Ghibellines had traditionally maintained friendships with Jewish student associations , they were particularly strictly persecuted.

History of the technical and academic singers Nibelungen

In 1858, listeners at the "kk Technische Hochschule in Wien" (today Vienna University of Technology ) founded a "Technikergesangsverein" which, according to the archives, was able to develop a very successful activity at the beginning, but which had come to an inglorious end in 1871. The follow-up project of a “choral society in the Rudolfinum”, a dormitory for students at the Technical University, was also spared this fate.

On March 16, 1892, a “Technical Academic Choral Society at the Imperial and Royal Technical University in Vienna” is founded, whose members wear a blue and white ribbon on a silver background. The first few years were characterized by development work and efforts to gain a foothold in general and in corporate academic life in Vienna, as a result of numerous social events organized by the association (small parties in the Ronacher ballroom, later representation balls in the Sophiensaele, singing appearances) and active participation the German Volkstumsarbeit was accomplished within the Austro-Hungarian dual monarchy. The distinction between fuxes and boys introduced in 1897, the start of regular fencing in the same year, the introduction of convents in 1899 and the founding of an old men’s association in 1900 mark the rebuilding of the association into a community with all the characteristics of a student association, which is characterized by the corporate structure Closure and through the adoption of the principle of singing in 1911 manifested even more strongly to the outside world.

As an artistic student association, which, in the form of the Academic Choral Society in Vienna, faced competition from a corporation that was much more traditional and better anchored in the Viennese educated bourgeoisie, the Technical-Academic Choral Society tried to compensate for this shortcoming by increasing its focus on academic fencing. This tendency was to intensify in the post-war years in the form of a camp formation within the German singers.

After the end of the First World War , the Technical-Academic Choral Society took part in the founding of the Wiener Burschenbund in 1918 and in honoring it for the dead. In 1919 the name was changed to a choir called "Wiener Technisch Akademische Sängerschaft Nibelungen" a few months earlier than the later 'Ghibellines' '.

Under the assumption of the free-striking principle, the singers joined the German Singers' Association (Weimarer CC) in 1921 , and in 1922 the first racket grades were held. In addition to numerous large-scale performances of choral literature, two members of the “Nibelungen” were rectors of the then Vienna University of Technology (today Vienna University of Technology) , in the interwar period, the old gentlemen Rudolf Saliger and Leopold Oerley .

In 1936 the singers opened their own home in Vienna's Tegetthoffstrasse No. 1.

The Nazi regime dissolves the singers in 1938, they then cast off the colors. Its now former members are integrated into the comradeship “Theodor Körner” together with members of the “Markomannen” singers and the “Eisen” fraternity.

On March 12, 1945, the clubhouse of the singers along with all the memorabilia was completely destroyed in an Allied bombing raid on Vienna .

History of the university singers "Barden zu Wien"

Shortly after the end of the war, two old men from the university singers 'Ghibellinen' Eduard Hoffmann and Rudolf Petrasch, together with two old men from the technical-academic singers Nibelungen (Karl Kontrus, Karl Fischer), began to collect the former members of both corporations in order to bring them together at regular meetings to prepare the Viennese restaurants “Café Sperl” and “Liesinger Bierhalle” for the goal of forming a new singing community in Vienna. The first significant step was the founding of the “Academic Choral Society in Vienna” in 1949, combined with the invitation to former members of both associations to become members of this society.

After founding a new Aktivitas, production of a new club magazine and resumption of rehearsal activities as well as saber fencing in 1950, the name "Akademische Sängerschaft Barden (Academic Choral Society in Vienna)" and the full colors in the form of a red and white ribbon with a blue opening on silver were adopted Basically, combined with a white head color. In the same year, the salutation of a “federal brother” was introduced between members of the Austrian singers' associations, which is still valid today, and the singers assumed the chairmanship of the Vienna corporation ring.

On the occasion of the ceremony in 1958 in the Great Ballroom of the University of Vienna for the 100th anniversary of the Academic Choral Society in Vienna as a traditional corporation of singers, it was awarded the title of university singers in 1959, as which the corporation presided over the Wiener Korporationsring for another year in 1961. The musical accompaniment of the 600th anniversary celebrations of the University of Vienna in 1965 and the 150th anniversary of the Vienna University of Technology (today Vienna University of Technology) underpinned the singers' status at that time as the musical home corporation of both universities.

In the course of a conflict that was still smoldering at the time within the German singers' body, the Barden university singers left the umbrella association in 2005 as the last singers in Austria. Since 2009 there has been a tendency towards rapprochement between both sides.

Singers today

Today the singers count just over 100 members. All active members are obliged to learn fencing, but there is no obligation to complete a sharp scale . Participation in the choir and in the convents is also a central obligation of the active members. The choir rehearses weekly and performs publicly at irregular intervals.

According to the DÖW, the singers are connected to the right-wing extremist Identitarian Movement .

Known members

literature

  • Gudrun Bramer: 150 years of academic music making at the University of Vienna. Diploma thesis, University of Vienna 2008. pdf
  • Michael Doeberl (Ed.): Das akademische Deutschland , Vol. 2: The German universities and their academic citizens , Berlin 1931, pp. 1052-1053.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ musiklexikon.ac.at accessed on June 2, 2019
  2. ↑ a b c d e AGV Akademischer Gesangverein (AGV), 1858-1938 (approx.) (Inventory). Retrieved April 9, 2019 .
  3. ^ EH Eberhard: Handbook of the student liaison system. Leipzig, 1924/25, p. 177.
  4. ↑ DÖW - Recognize - Right-Wing Extremism - News from the Far Right - Archive - September 2016 - "Identitarian" boys. Retrieved February 5, 2017 .
  5. ↑ GRAS press release
  6. ↑ Harald Lönnecker : From "Ghibellinia goes, Germania comes!" To "People want to people!" - mentalities, structures and organizations in the Prague student body 1866–1914. In: Sudetendeutsches Archiv München (Ed.): Yearbook for Sudeten German museums and archives 1995–2001 , Munich 2001, pp. 34–77. Digitized version ( memento of November 26, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 212 kB), p. 12

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