Landesverband der Donauschwaben, USA

 

 

TANZGRUPPEN BERICHTEN

DEZEMBER 2010

 

 

 AMERICAN AID SOCIETY TANZGRUPPEN 

 

Forwarded From Chicago American Aid Society Donauschwaben

Jugendgruppe

 

 

Forwarded by Ron Farland, Jugendgruppe Representative

 

Nikki Bappert and Jenny Werstein serve shots of Feigling in their Blackhawks Dirndls at Oktoberfest.
Even little Dorothy Cortes got to wear a Blackhawks Dirndl at Oktoberfest.

          Katrina Mueller, Peter Lisauskas and Kat Rally pose for a picture with Adam Schwagerfrom the Detroit Carpathia Club. We had a wonderful time there and really appreciated their great hospitality.

Jenny Werstein and Katrina Mueller smile

with Katrina's friend from grad school

at the Weinlesefest in Detroit.

 

          As always, the fall has been an extremely busy time for the Jugendgruppe. After the “Tag der Donauschwaben USA und Canada” in Philadelphia, the youth group has been working hard and performing often.

          In August, we performed at the Heimatfest in Lake Villa and when Labor Day came around... we were found with nothing to do. We all found pleasure in relaxing over the long weekend because we were all aware of what was to come.

 

          Over the weekend of September 10th, the youth group worked hard running the small bar at the German Day Week­end in Lincoln Square. Not only did we bartend Friday, Saturday and Sunday, but we also participated in the annual Steuben Parade and performed during the program on Sunday. It was a very successful weekend and we sold over 120 barrels of beer over the course of the three days. We want to thank all of the members who helped us out over that weekend; we could not have done it without you!

 

          Following the German Day Weekend, the youth group had plenty to do helping out at the Oktoberfest. Whether it was making popcorn and selling pretzels or working the outside bar and selling shots, the Jugend members could be found all over the fests. We enjoy working at the fest knowing that the money we make over those weekends goes to allowing us to continue to keep our heritage alive.

 

          After the third weekend of Oktoberfest, we had Kirchweih, which is our favorite event of the year. Nicki Anetsberger and Nick Balcerak were the winners of the Strauß and we all had a great time celebrating with them.

 

          On October 23rd some of the Jugendgruppe members drove up to Detroit for their Weinlesefest. Erik and Peter Lisaus-kas. Alex Anetsberger, Kat Rally, Erika Neumayer. Jamie Mazur, Katrina Mueller, and Jenny Werstein all enjoyed spending the weekend with their friends from the Detroit Carpathia Club. We joined Stephen Mueller that weekend, who often attends Carpathia Club events and has grown very close to the Jugend from Detroit since he is finishing up school in Michigan, not far from the club house. It is so great to know that if you are in another city, their club will welcome you with open arms, as we have with Jugend from St. Louis and Los Angeles.

 

          Although we had an enjoyable weekend in Detroit and other members enjoyed their weekend to themselves, we all had one thing on our minds, the great loss of our dear friend from the Danube Swabian Cultural Society of Southeastern Wisconsin, Katie Buchert. She began her struggle with breast cancer four years ago and it had been an intense roller coaster for her and her family. Whenever she seemed to be getting better and things started to look up, she was struck down again. Her strength was evident right up until the end when doctors feared she wouldn't make it a few hours when in reality she hung on for days. She lost her battle with cancer on October 22, 2010 at the young age of 26. She was and is an inspiration to all of us and we will miss her dearly. She was truly a beauti­ful person inside and out!

 

          The Jugendgruppe would like to invite everyone to join us for our annual Champagne Brunch being held at the Chicago clubhouse on December 5th. We also invite everyone to the SPINGO night fundraiser that will also be held at the club­house on February 25th. Please note that this event is going to be later in the month than it has been in previous years. We thank everyone who has supported the youth group and we always appreciate your support and look forward continuing to keep the Donauschwaben traditions alive.

 

By Erika Neumayer

 

 

Kindergruppe Report

 

 

Forwarded By Christine Slabinger

GERMAN DAY on LINCOLN AVE

 

          This year's annual German Day Parade started out raining and cloudy and we wondered if it would rain on our parade. But by the time the parade started, the rain had stopped and it was a bit overcast, perfect parade walking weather. Our club had young and old together celebrating the annual German Day Parade. We had a lot of Kindergruppe kids on the float, quite a few Jugend carrying the German flag like we do every year and a large turnout of our members carrying flowers and walking in front of the float. One Kindegruppe member, Megan Gabler, was asked to ride on the Kernei float, where she wore a Maria Mädel outfit, which made her Kernei grandparents Joe & Katharina Schneider very proud. After the parade the sun came out and it brought out a large crowd on Lincoln Ave which was great. There were a lot of people there enjoying the music, food and especially the beer from our Jugendgruppe's beer tent.

 

          Sunday brought many of us back to Lincoln Avenue again for the German Day Program, which included our Kindergruppe dancing. This year we also did a "Freundshaft" dance with the Donauschwaben Kindergruppe. The crowd really seemed to enjoy that.

 

 

KIRCHWEIH

 

By Anne Lengfelder

 

          The weather certainly cooperated on the night of Kirchweih. The temperature was very mild and it felt like much earlier in the year. The hall looked wonderful thanks to the efforts of Erika Scheffrahn. 

 

          The children were excited to participate in the Kirchweihmarsch as always. There were a lot of little ones this year and they all performed wonderfully. It's nice to see that our traditions will be carried down to the next generation. Former long time Kindergruppe member, Erika Katzenmayer, picked Tim O'Reilly's name out of the hat so he won the Strauß this year and Kirsten Lengfelder was his partner. They enjoyed their celebration dance together and were joined by all the other Kindergruppe members. Most of the children sat on the stage then and watched the bidding for the Strauß. They can't wait for the day when they can be in the Jugendgruppe and participate. Thank you to everyone for generously donating your money. Thank you also to the Kindergruppe parents for putting together all the Rosemary Strauss pin-ons that we wore that night. It takes a lot of effort to make enough for everyone involved.

 

 

 

SCHLACHTFEST

 

By Christine Slabinger and Monica Gabler

 

 

          This year we had a wrapping party to make all our Schlachtfest baskets look as wonderful as they did. Thanks to everyone who came and helped wrap baskets even those that were not theirs.  Thanks to Erika Scheffrahn for helping make the wrapping go so smoothly. For our first time group effort this turned out to be a great success.

 

          Our annual Schlachtfest was on Sunday, November 7th 2010.  This signifies the last big performance for the Kindergruppe. We look forward to this event but it tells us that the holidays are right around the corner. The kids did several dances; some with just the younger kids; some with just the older kids and some all together. It is nice to see that we have a large strong group of kids interested in their heritage. Everyone in attendance really enjoyed their perfor­mance but, as always, it is the Kindergruppe baskets that are the biggest draw. Everyone, especially the Kindergruppe kids, wait with full of anticipation to see if their names will be called out for the basket they wish to win.

 

AAS

2010

SCHLACHTFEST

 

 

 

 

   

CARPATHIA CLUB TANZGRUPPEN

 

Forwarded From Carpathia Club Donauschwaben

 

 

Kindergruppe Updates

 

          Kindergruppe had a busy fall season.

 

          In August, the group performed at the 2010 Landestreffen in Philadelphia.

 

          In September, the group danced at the Carpathia Club Oktoberfest and Rochester Mills Brewery Oktoberfest. The Oktoberfest celebrations continued in the month of October as the group performed at the city of Lexington Oktoberfest and Prince of Peace Catholic Church Oktoberfest in West Bloomfield. The fall season ended with Carpathia’s own Weinlesefest and Kirchweih.

 

 

Kinder/Childrens Group Leaders
Cindy Schleis Christine Pesta  
586-468-3951 

schleisc@sbcglobal.net

586-264-2058

ccpesta@aol.com

 

Row 1: Kylie Kapraun, Maria Nava, Francesco Nava, Kate Lingerfelt, Brett Roek, Rachel Lingerfelt, 

Sade Pledl, Jacob Lingerfelt, Evan Schleis.

 

Row 2: Leiterin Christine Pesta, Leah Stampfer, Adrian Pledl, Sebastian Cole, Johnny Tisch, 

Kurt Szymanski, Karina Ochss, Leiterin Cindy Schleis.

 

Not Pictured: Aidan Bullock, Kurt Fleischer, Graham Jabour, Ian Jabour, Joseph Nava, 

Heidi Tingstad.

 

Kindergruppe perfoming

2010 Landestreffen in Philadelphia

Prince of Peace Catholic

Church Oktoberfest in West

Bloomfield

Performing at Kirchweih

 

 

 

 

Jugendgruppe

 

Taking a break at Kirchweih

Jugendgruppe perfoming

2010 Landestreffen in Philadelphia

2010-2011 Jugendgruppe Royalty

Vicki Schwager

and Robert Thomas
SAVE THE DATE

Jugendgruppe performing

St. Joseph’s Church

Detroit

 

 

          The Jugendgruppe began the fall season with Carpathia’s Oktoberfest. During Saturday’s evening performance, we were proud to announce the new royalty – Vicki Schwager and Robert Thomas. Congratulations! Hope you have lots of fun and a memorable year.

 

          We tried something new at the Oktoberfest – several girls baked Lebkuchen Herzen (gingerbread hearts) and then decorated them at the hall. I was there for the decorating and I can tell you they had a lot of fun. They compared recipes and decorating ideas. We had hearts with the familiar “ich liebe dich”, phrase from our dances, such as “mag I dich” and” bussi, bussi”, and some more artistic designs. All cookies were sold that weekend. Thanks to everyone who helped with this! We will do this again sometime.

 

          The last weekend in September we danced at the annual Rochester Mills Brewery Oktoberfest, and then on Sunday, we performed at the St. Josephs Church Oktoberfest. I think everyone from our group who attended – dancers and parents – enjoyed St. Josephs. The church bells rang shortly before they danced. An appreciative crowd watched as the Jugendgruppe danced outside the tent in the parking lot in front of the church. From my vantage point I could see the group dancing with the church in the background – what a view.

 

          When the last issue went into print we were just about to go to the Landestreffen in Philadelphia. It was a good weekend and was as much fun as anticipated. The Hampton Inn outdoor pool was the gathering spot. Everyone was glad to see each other again, it truly is a great opportunity to see old friends and make new ones – for kids and adults! The performances were good! There was quite a crowd watching us and our Jugend managed to entertain the people despite some technical difficulties with the PA system at the start.  Once the system was up and running again they put on a great show. They received lots of compliments.

 

          Our Jugend have developed close ties with members from the Milwaukee, Cleveland, and Chicago groups. We are honored that these members are willing to make the trip to Carpathia for our events, as some of our members are no strangers to their events. Since then we have had people come to Oktoberfest; a group from the American Aid Society of Chicago performed at Weinlesefest, and the Milwaukee Donauschwaben performed, with guest dancers from both Carpathia and Cleveland, at Kirchweih. We look forward to many more fun filled occasions.

 

          We wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! May this season bring you much joy with family and friends and health and happiness in 2011.

 

          Be sure to mark the date of Feb 12th for the Jugend Königsball. We would love to see you all there.

 

Die Carpathia Jugendgruppe

Karin & Robert Schwalbe, Debbie Kapraun und die Carpathia Jugendgruppe

Rob Schwalbe_Debbie Kapraun_Karin Schwalbe

 

 

 

 

KULTURGRUPPE

 

          The Carpathia Kulturgruppe once again had the privilege of hosting Weinlesefest this year and what fun we had. The group came together to set up the trellis for the grapes, the jail for those that were caught stealing said grapes, and even sold some pretzels and raffle tickets too. The evening started out with only a few sheriffs in the crowd but by the end of the evening we had a whole posse of young deputies helping keep the grapes safe from thievery.

 

          The group would like to thank all those that donated their time, efforts, and grape leaves to ensure the evening was a success. We look forward to seeing everyone next year.

 

          The Kulturgruppe would also like to thank all the club members (and non-members) that helped us at our fish fries this past year.

 

          The Carpathia Kulturgruppe will be taking a break from practices and performances for the month of December and will resume again in the new year. With that being said, we are always accepting new members (twenty-one and older please, with exceptions) into the group and our practices are held every Sunday from 6 to 8 pm in the Practice Room or GACC Room (Subject to Change).

 

         For more information you can find us on the web www.carpathiaclub.com  under the untergruppen heading.

 

You can find us on Facebook:

Group: Carpathia Kulturgruppe

Page: Carpathia Kulturgruppe

Email: kulturgruppe@gmail.com

Phone: 586.899.8633

Kirchweih

Carpathia Club Oktoberfest

2010 Landestreffen

Philadelphia

 

 

SCHUHPLATTLER

 

          The Carpathia Schuhplattler Group has been very busy this Oktoberfest Season performing in Lansing, Kalamazoo, Rochester, and here at Carpathia. We even had to turn down a few performances due to same-date conflicts. We are looking forward to a break from performances so we can concentrate on learning some new dances and maybe reviving some old favorites.

 

          I would like to thank every member of the Carpathia Schuhplattler group for their time, efforts, and their knack for being early for performances and also a very big thank you from the entire group to all the young ladies that have helped us during our performances this past year. Lastly I would like to personally thank Paul Schwalbe for his never-ending-pursuit of new dances (and music) for the group to learn, his dedication to the style and perfection of the dances, and for ALWAYS picking up the ball whenever I have dropped it.

 

          Our practices are on Sundays from 4 to 5 pm in the Practice Room (Subject to Change). We are always accepting new members (fourteen and older please, with exceptions) or those just curious as to what we are about.

 

          For more information you can find us on the web www.carpathiaclub.com  under the untergruppen heading.

 

You can find us on Facebook:

Group: Carpathia Schuhplattler Dancers

Page: Carpathia Schuhplattler Group

Carsten Grotloh

Email: wcgrotloh@hotmail.com

Phone: 586.255.6527

   

 

 

Carsten Grotloh

 

 

 

 

 

CHICAGO DONAUSCHWABEN TANZGRUPPEN

 

Heim der Donauschwaben

Forwarded From Chicago Donauschwaben

 

Kindergruppe Updates

 

 

Thank you for all of your support in 2010!

Viktoria Johnson

 

Jugendgruppe Brunch

By Rose Hauer and Maria Toth

 

          Guests walking through the doors of the Donauschwaben hall were met with crisp autumn décor in colors of orange, brown and gold, along with wooden and paper turkeys which set the tone for the annual Jugendgruppe Fall Champagne Brunch held on Sunday, November 15 . Members of the Jugendgruppe and their parents arrived at 8 in the morning and began cooking all of the delicious breakfast items, such as pancakes, French toast, scrambled eggs, sausage bacon, and cheese and cherry blintzes. Savory side dishes, salads, and fabulous desserts were also provided by the Jugendgruppe parents. Our guests were thrilled to have so many wonderful food choices!

 

          Rose Hauer thanked all the guests for attending and for their continued support of the Jugendgruppe. A special thank you to Hilda Lorenz for doing an outstanding job with the raffle. Assisting her with the raffle was our new Miss Donauschwaben Gabi Fuentes. Raffle winners left the Brunch with beautiful baskets. Three guests also left with Thanksgiving turkeys. We would like to thank everyone that participated to make the Fall Brunch a success.

 

 

 

 

ST. LOUIS TANZGRUPPEN

 

 

Forwarded From German Cultural Society St. Louis

Kindertanzgruppe Update

 

 

REPORT PENDING

 

Monika Lorenz

Vice-President

 

Mittlere Tanzgruppe Updates

 

          The Middle Dance Group has enjoyed a full fall schedule! We’ve performed at Kirchweih, our Oktoberfest at Donau Park, St. Charles Oktoberfest, German American Day, Strassenfest, and they will wrap up their season at the St. Margaret Mary Church Oktoberfest. One of the highlights of the season was performing at the German American Day celebration on Oct. 2. We are pleased to be invited to this every year. We are challenged to learn a dance to live music for next year. At the end of the evening, 11 dancers and 2 youth group dancers along with myself and my husband, John stayed the night (sleepover) at the hall. We played games till midnight and I couldn’t believe how much fun we all had.

 

          Thank you to Moni, all the parents, grandparents and the great support I receive from members of the society.

 

          We will start up practices again in January. We are always looking for new dancers age 9 to 13. For more information, please call (618) 538-9975 or email ruthvp1@gmail.com

  

Ruth Vanderpluym

ruthvp1@gmail.com 

 

Jugendgruppe Update

 

Photo Report: Jugendgruppe as Guests at the St. Louis Cardinals

 

 

Volkstanzgruppe Update

          The Volkstanzgruppe enjoyed another exciting and busy Fall Fest Season! Various performances around the area included the St. Theresa’s Polka Mass and Parish Picnic in Belleville, IL, St. Charles Oktoberfest, St. Louis Strassenfest, and Soulard Oktoberfest. We also hope everyone enjoyed themselves as much as we did at our own DKV Oktoberfest! We continue to be at least 20 dancers strong and welcome new dancers as we will begin adding new dances for next year. One last performance for the year will include a short trip to Altenburg, MO. We wish everyone a wonderful holiday season and we’ll see you soon.

Monika Lorenz

Vice-President

 

 

 

PHILADELPHIA TANZGRUPPEN

Danube Swabian

Forwarded From Philadelphia Donauschwaben

 

 

 

 

KITCHENER TANZGRUPPEN

Forwarded From Kitchener Donauschwaben

Kindergruppe and Jugendgruppe

 

          Oktoberfest ist wünderbar… and that it was! Both our Kindergruppe and Jugendgruppe dancers did an amazing job at representing the Kitchener Schwaben Club youth. Our Kindergruppe had six performances and our Jugendgruppe had eight, not to mention participating in the Thanksgiving Day Parade! This year a few children also had an opportunity to participate on the Remembrance Day Societies new “Toy” float. Later to find out it won the Wünderbar Award! Congratulations to Emma, Adam, Jake and Deanna. A special thank you to Helene Schramek for including our children!

 

          A HUGE thank you to instructors, parents, guardians, relatives, friends and volunteers in making this year’s Oktoberfest another success. Everyone’s hard work and dedication certainly showed and paid off. We would also like to thank the Schwaben Club as well as the other festhalls that supported our dance groups: Hubertushaus, Concordia Club, Oktoberfest Inc., Transylvania Club, and Altes Muenchen Haus.

 

          This year our Jugendgruppe participated in the “So you think you can Tanz” competition held at the Alpine Club. They danced incredible and were quite the competition especially to our own Schwaben Dancers! Congratulations Jugendgruppe on your first competition and to the winners, our fellow dancers at the Transylvania Club!

 

          We would like to welcome the Herold Family and their children T.J. and Shayla to our Kindergruppe/Jugendgruppe.

 

          New dancers are always welcome and registration is ongoing.

 

Kindergruppe Ages 3-9 Jugendgruppe Ages 9-15

 

Lisa Schaadt

Kindergruppe/Jugendgruppe President rl@netflash.net

 

 

 

          The Schwaben Club would like to congratulate both the Schwaben 

Dancers and the Schwaben Club Jugendgruppe on wonderful performances 

at the “So You Think You Can Tanz” contest. We’re cheering for you!”

 

 

 

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