Villach Carnival

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Carnival guild Villach, Carinthia
Children's Carnival Prinzenpaar 2019, Villach, Carinthia, Austria

The Villach Carnival takes place every year in Villach in Carinthia , Austria .

history

The Villach Carnival ended on Shrove Tuesday 1867 with a "successful Corso trip". This is the first time that Villach Carnival has been mentioned.

Since 1910 the Villacher Bauerngman has held a farmers' ball every year, the proceeds of which were used for charitable purposes. In 1955, Rudolf Horn had the idea of ​​turning the farmers' ball into the new “Villacher Fasching”. As early as 1958, more than 50 bars took part in the “Carnival in all of Villach”. In 1961, the “Villach Carnival Session” was held for the first time in the Chamber of Labor. From the Villacher Bauerngman, the "Villach Carnival Guild" was formed in 1964. The events have been taking place in the Congress Center Villach since 1972. In 2001 the carnivalists moved into their own, newly built guild hall as a clubhouse.

Villach Carnival reaches its annual climax on Carnival Saturday with the large carnival parade in the city center. Not only do the Villach fools present themselves in the most unusual disguises, but groups from other federal states and other European countries also take part.

The first prince couple was elected in 1955 and the first child prince couple in 1967.

Villacher Carnival on TV

The first "Villach Carnival Session" was broadcast by radio in 1961 . Since 1963 the Austrian ORF television has broadcast highlights of the event every year on Shrove Tuesday . For decades, the Villach carnival was considered one of the ORF entertainment programs with the most viewers, but the audience response is falling rapidly. In 2000, an average of 2.08 million Austrians watched, in 2020 - at the previous low of the quota - there were only 959,000 viewers.

Longstanding protagonists

Villach Carnival is best known for its longstanding protagonists : Alexander Telesko ("Apotheker"), Manfred Tisal ("EU Farmer"), Hannes Höbinger ("Der Nachzipfer"), Manfred Obernosterer ("Da Noste"), Tanja Karl (as parodists Barbara Rett , Ingrid Thurnher ), Elisabeth Trattnig, Markus Why (“Wirtschaftsscheiderlein”), Sonja Juchart, Franz Kleinbichler and as “rehearsal choir singers” Andreas Scherer, Arno Kohlweg and Michael Nowak. Most of them no longer occur.

Web links

Commons : Villacher Fasching  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Christian Madritsch: Association history. Villacher Fasching, accessed on February 17, 2017 .
  2. ↑ history and purpose of Bauerngman. Retrieved February 17, 2017 .
  3. ^ Christian Madritsch: Association history. Villacher Fasching, accessed on February 17, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Information about Shrove Saturday. Retrieved February 17, 2017 .
  5. ↑ 1.056 million at "Villacher Fasching" on ORF. In: derstandard.at. February 14, 2018, accessed February 18, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Crashed: Villacher Fasching in the quotas crisis. In: Small newspaper. March 1, 2017, accessed February 18, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Villacher Fasching falls below the million mark for the first time. In: Small newspaper. February 26, 2020, accessed February 26, 2020 .