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VISITING AUTHOR/EDITOR ARTICLE

SEPTEMBER 2007

Remembrance of our Homeland 

with the Ulmer Tanz und Trachten Gruppe

By Hans Kopp

hans_kopp@hotmail.com

    On Tuesday August 14^th 2007 the Tanz- und Trachten-Gruppe Ulm were guests of the Donauschwaben in Cleveland, Ohio. They arrived on the 13^th in Cleveland and were taken on a City tour which took them the German churches St. Stephan were they were greeted by Father Michael Franz. From there they went on to visit Downtown Cleveland. After a tour of the “Rock and Roll Hall of Fame” and “Ohio City”, they were off to Cleveland’s University Circle and the German Cultural Gardens nearby at the Rockefeller Gardens. There they marveled at the impressive Goethe-Schiller Monument, one of three full size monuments like in Weimar, Germany which was erected in 1907 by American citizens of German descent.

    The tour took them from there to the “Lakeview Park Cemetery where the mausoleum of President Garfield stands and the nearby Cleveland’s famous “Little Italy” and then through the Metropolitan Park back to Lenau Park. There they were treated to an original American Picnic by their host the Cleveland youth dance group.

    On Tuesday night hundreds of members crowded the Holzer Hall to see the performances of the dance group. Franz Flock, the director of the group explained the various costumes and the festival dances, the group was performing. The dancers were accompanied by the harmonica tunes of Gabi Anger while the husband –wife team Ulrike and Rudi Schiebli entertained during the intermissions with their folksongs.

    Prior to the begin of their performance the group marched into the Holzer Hall with their beautiful Donauschwäbischen Trachten, original tailored by a seamstress originating from Obrowatz a small Donauschwaben Village on the Danube.

    During their second performance the group marched in dressed in their colorful original Hungarian customs, made in the small village Szeramle in the Schwäbischen Türkei, Hungary. They performed original Hungarian dances and sang Hungarian songs.

    Their final dances were performed in Original Donauschwaben working clothes the so called „Blue Color Trachten“ which reminded us about the farmer hard work which made the Donauschwaben farmers famous for building a paradise from an eroded land. The prints of the material for dresses, a rarity, were printed in Hungary.

    At the conclusion of the performances an exchange of gifts took place which ended the evening dedicated to tradition of our “Alte Heimat” of long time ago.