University singers Skalden zu Innsbruck

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US! Skalds

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Basic data
University / s: LFU , MUI , MCI , UMIT
Founding: February 15, 1863
Place of foundation: innsbruck
Foundation date: June 13, 1863
Corporation association : Representative day of academic corporations, Weimar Interest Group (WIG)
Colours: white-green-white
Type of Confederation: Singers
Position to the scale : optional striking
Motto: German songs sound and strength, steel yourself German young team!
Total members: approx. 150 (Oct. 2012)
Active: approx. 15 (2013)
Website: www.skalden.at

The university singers Skalden is an Innsbruck student association in the Representatives' Day of Academic Corporations (VtaK). The singers are facultative striking and colored . Its members are students and academics from the Leopold Franzens University and the Medical University of Innsbruck . The members form the skald choir .

Color

The colors of the university singers skalds are white-green-white with golden percussion . A lime green hat is worn. The foxes wear a white and green fox ribbon. The motto of the singers is: German songs, sound and strength, steel yourself German young team .

history

From the foundation to the end of the First World War

The lawyer Theodor Wranitzky from Vienna became a member of an academic table community of Adamites in Innsbruck in 1862 , who derived their name from their regular table in the Adambräu in Adamgasse. Wranitzky had been a member of the Academic Choral Society in Vienna and had already made the decision to found an academic choral society in Innsbruck even before joining the Adamites. In spring 1863 the constituent assembly of the Academic Choral Society Innsbruck (AGV) took place.

Because of the memory of the German War of 1866, a white-green ribbon with a golden advance was chosen, a sign of belonging to the Tyrolean riflemen . In 1878 the poet Hans von Vintler wrote the club's motto, which is still valid today. On May 15, 1881, new statutes were finally approved for the association and the white-green ribbon was replaced by the white-green-white one. The skalds have been wearing full color (ribbon and hat) since 1906.

Due to the musical performance, the concerts and all other social events were very well attended. During the unrest on the occasion of the opening of the Italian law faculty in 1904, a member of the association was injured and a passenger, the painter August Pezzey , was killed by a bayonet stab in the heart. In 1911 the name was changed to Akademischer Gesangsverein Innsbruck, Sängerschaft Skalden . The 50th foundation festival was celebrated from June 20 to 23, 1913. A year later, after the outbreak of World War I, most of the active and younger old men were spread across Europe on the fronts. During the war, a war committee led the corporation's agendas, and limited active operations were maintained. 19 members lost their lives in the war, many of whom only returned late from captivity .

Interwar period

After the end of the war, active operations were resumed on November 16, 1918, even if the loss of South Tyrol and the associated loss as a recruiting area made operations more difficult. In 1920 the name Akademische Sängerschaft Skalden was adopted when it joined the German Singers Association (DS). From 1921 onwards, members of the skalds also belonged to the paramilitary home guard and formed the so-called S-Zug there .

In 1924, the singers erected a memorial in Innsbruck's Westfriedhof for the war-dead members .

In 1927 the University of Innsbruck awarded her the title of University Singing .

In 1930 politics at the Couleur table and the wearing of colors were banned. In 1931 it was merged with the Innsbruck men's choir in order to maintain the artistic commitment. The anti-Semitic mood in the association meant that, according to a member at the time, between 1932 and 1936 members were strictly forbidden from going to Jewish pubs and "non-Aryan" shops, similar to the boycott of Jews in Germany. In 1933 the skalds were dismissed from the German choir because the dictatorial federal government tried to cut off all connections to the Nazi-ruled Germany .

National Socialism

In March 1938, the " Anschluss of Austria " to the German Reich took place and with it the end of the connection. The last evidence of the university singers skalds are three photographs of the couleur stroll on Maria-Theresien-Straße on the occasion of the 75th foundation festival in May 1938, which ended with the officially ordered dissolution of the skalds. Twenty-four federal brothers lost their lives in World War II .

Postwar and Second Republic

In the spring of 1946 the old gentlemen 's evenings were resumed, in 1949 there was again the first July celebration , which unofficially revived the Academic Choral Society . On May 26, 1950, the AGV was reconstituted in the Leitner Inn in Wilten and two years later again took on the name Academic Singers Skalds . In 1951 the Security Directorate and the Academic Senate approved the wearing of the colors and the “Burgriese” inn in Innsbruck's old town was chosen as home. The notes and the flag had been kept in the New University during the Second World War and returned in the same year.

In 1983, after a break of 57 years, the University of Innsbruck again awarded the corporation the title of University Singers. On December 12, 1992 the decision was made to resign from the German singing community. The university singers Skalden played a key role in founding the Weimar Interest Group (WIG). In 1993, at the 130th Foundation Festival, a commercial sound carrier was presented to the public for the first time in the history of the skald. In 2001 the Association of Representatives of Academic Corporations was founded . A woman was killed in a fire in the Josef Pembaur student residence in Skalden in 2017.

Cartels and friendships

Cartels

  • Ghibellines Vienna (from 1872)
  • Gothia Graz (from 1872 to 1922)
  • St. Pauli in Leipzig / Mainz (from 1875)
  • University singers Barden Prague / Munich (from 1883)
  • Marcomanni Brno / Karlsruhe (from 1922)
  • St. Pauli - Jena / Münster (from 1924)
  • Ak. Liederkranz Schwaben Stuttgart (from 1924)
  • Technical-Academic S! Nibelungen Vienna (from 1927)
  • Fridericiana Halle (from 1929)
  • Guilelmia Greifswald / Freiburg (from 1932)
  • Borussia Berlin (from 1975)

Friendship relationships

  • Altwittelsbach Munich (from 1914)
  • Gothia Graz (from 1922)
  • Germania Berlin (from 1922)
  • Leopoldina Breslau / Cologne (from 1924)
  • Arion Leipzig / Göttingen (from 1927)
  • Zollern Tübingen (from 1932)

Skald choir

The Skaldenchor is a male choir . He appears at public events and has published numerous music albums , mostly with folk and student songs .

Discography

  • 1993: 130 years of university singing at the Skalden
  • 1998: Now we swing our hats! (Double CD)
  • 2003: In the deep cellar
  • 2008: Here we are gathered ...
  • 2009: Tyrol 1809-2009

Known members

The membership of Hermann Richter (1915–1945), concentration camp doctor and SS Obersturmführer, is controversial and has not been confirmed by the singers.

literature

  • Skalds Innsbruck singers 1863–1923 , o. O. 1923.
  • Announcements [for] the 100th Foundation Festival of the Academic Singers “Skalden” , Innsbruck 1963.
  • P. Ludescher, J. Metzler, K. Richter: The hundred year history of the academic singers "Skalden" in Innsbruck , Innsbruck 1963.
  • Otto Sofka (Hrsg.): Fest-Mitteilungen [for] the 115th Foundation Festival of the Academic Singers Skalden in Innsbruck , Innsbruck 1978.
  • Albin Kulhanek: AGV Chronicle 1863–1906 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ EH Eberhard: Handbook of the student liaison system. Leipzig, 1924/25, p. 172.
  2. ↑ The Sciliar . Volume 63, Bozen 1989, p. 315.
  3. ↑ a b Lisa Rettl , Peter Pirker : "I was there with pleasure." The concentration camp doctor Sigbert Ramsauer. Milena Verlag, 2014, ISBN 978-3-902950-17-8 .
  4. ↑ Harald Lönnecker : “Not ore and stone, music should be our memorial!” - The singing movement and the memorial of the German singers (Weim. CC) (PDF; 187 kB) . Koblenz 2002. p. 15.
  5. ^ Michael Doeberl : The Academic Germany . Volume 2, Berlin 1931, p. 865.
  6. ↑ Heribert Schiedel : The right edge. Extremist sentiments in our society. Steinbauer, Vienna 2007. P. 72f.
  7. ^ A dead person in a fire in the middle of Innsbruck. ORF.AT from January 28, 2017.
  8. ↑ University singers Skalden Innsbruck on the website of the Tiroler Sängerbund, accessed on December 16, 2018
  9. ↑ Interview with Ewald Stadler in VICE. March 24, 2014, accessed February 7, 2018 .
  10. ↑ Handbook of Austrian Right-Wing Extremism. 2nd edition, Vienna 1996, p. 277.
  11. ^ Michael Gehler: Students and Politics. The struggle for supremacy at the University of Innsbruck 1918–1938 . Innsbruck 1990.
  12. ↑ Albin Kulhanek: The Academic Choral Society Innsbruck and the Skald Singers 1907-1945 . 1st edition. Innsbruck May 2008.