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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Fifty five r D Talk station.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
If it about krsee talks nation, must be something German
going on. Got our German Bubba music. Thank you to
Joe Strecker for that. And welcome back to the fifty
five KRSE Morning Show. Hair Don Heinrich Toltzman will come
and my friend, it's good to have you back on
the show.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Tonka Goten Morgan, Guten Morgan. Looks like a beautiful day,
beautiful weekend, and we have some great, good, beautiful news
for you. This coming week starts the German festival season.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Yeah, and I know.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
You patronize, would love to see you as our various
German events. And I think you even have a pair
of later.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
I do, I absolutely do.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Yeah, get those out and be sure to bring your
you're thirst and hunger along to our events.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Absolutely, that was I have to give a thanks going
back many years, the Colping Society got me the later hosen,
So really I'm pleased to own them only a few
occasions during the year when I can actually wear them
because as a fashion statement, just walking around an any random
day with leader hosen On. I think it looks weird,
but hey, they are. They're pretty cool. When you got
(01:26):
all the German folks around similarly dressed, you're in good company,
of course, hoisting beers and drink, eating the wonderful food
and the sausages and oh my god, my mouth is water,
and just thinking about it.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Well later hosting last forever they do. And you know,
in our area too, we figure that half the population
has German ancestry, so the largest ethnic ancestry group in
the area, second to us are the Irish and of
course many other people.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Here.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
We celebrate our heritage and we have this coming week
a big event. It's the one hundred and thirtieth German
Day celebration, and we have one of the oldest such
celebrations in the nation. And the German American Citizens League
is the sponsoring organization. Was founded in eighteen ninety five
(02:19):
and it's the umbrella organization of all the societies in
the Tri State. People might not realize it, but we
have more than forty of them. You mentioned the Colping,
that's one of the member societies. There's the Donal Schwaubman,
the Germania, the Hendelmeyer, Mustard Club. Yes, we do have
(02:40):
a German mustard club.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
I didn't know about that one. Oh it's great.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
They meet at Vitelmann's group ub once a month and
enjoy some good Bavarian mustard. We also have since Deutsch.
So many people don't realize that there are so many Germans,
and we have more in our area than in any
other city, and that means more than the Saint Louis,
(03:07):
more than a Milwaukee, and the German Embassy even said
that we were the German heritage center in the US.
So we are proud that we maintain our German heritage.
And for the one hundred and thirtieth German Day, we
have a three day. Three events had three different days.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
One day is not enough.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
You're celebrating the German Day singular because with events that
take place every three days.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
I got a kick out of that.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Yeah, I guess we should. Well, you can say German Days,
but we call it we celebrate you. Like you said,
it's not one day is not enough.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
No, we do well.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
I mean a lot of food.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
I know real quick. Here.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
The one thing I always thought was really really cool
in spite of the fact you have all these different
I'll say factions of German clubs out there. You all
get along and play together. Really you're supportive of each other.
Like if Coping has their October Fest, all the German
clubs show up and participate in the events. There's a parade,
they all have their own banners and it's just a
(04:11):
really cool thing that the German societies and clubs do well.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
It's all mutual support of each other and it reflects
the German immigration and the different parts of Germany, from
the South, from Bavaria to the north, all these different
parts of now each has their own customs and traditions
that we like to stress. Now we get going. On Wednesday,
(04:37):
the twenty eighth, we have a keg tapping at the
Hofbra House in Newport, so that'll be a lot of fun,
good food and drink there. And then on Saturday, the
thirty first of May at ten thirty we have our
German Day kickoff at Finlay Market. They have a very
(04:57):
nice beer garden there on Elm Street and we like
to meet in Finlay Market because that's where the roots
of many of our groups.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Go back to.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
And we'll have the Headdona Shauben dancers will be there
we will have a parade of all the different societies
that you were mentioning. Yeah, and then we have our
good German band, the solled the fair fair Eines Muzikompton
consists of musicians from the different German societies and even
(05:30):
promised this year they're going to play some of the
hit songs from eighteen ninety five, which is going to
be great. And then on Sunday, the first of June,
from eleven am to eight pm, we have the German
Day Celebration at the Hofboy House and we will have
(05:52):
the Colping zanger Kore, the German choir from Colping. We'll
have some Bavarian dancers there and of course a German band,
and we have all kinds of raffle prices that will
be available. And the grand prize is a dinner party
for thirty at the Holfbriye House. And some people said, well,
(06:17):
I don't know if I have thirty friends, but when
they turned out to be a winner, they have more
than thirty friends.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
That's a good point, don because that's exactly what I
was thinking. I mean, it would take me a month
to come up with thirty people to get to an
event or and like, wait, I don't have that many friends.
But it's free food, it's dinner. It's a hofbrow house.
The food's going to be great. There's going to be
beer flowing, and I know it excludes your alcoholic beverages
(06:45):
as these things I typically do, I think by law.
But you'll still be able to buy some beer when you're.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
There, exactly. And then I should say too, our celebration too.
It supports as a fundraiser for our German heritage museum.
We started at twenty five years ago and it's located
in the West Fort Park on the west side of town,
(07:14):
and we felt that there was nothing like it. There
is actually nothing like it in our midwestern area. A
German heritage museum. And it's in a beautiful park where
we have playground for children. There's a pavilion there, and
it's in a nineteenth century loghouse and we have many
(07:37):
interesting artifacts there. We have immigrant trunks, we have wooden
shoes that immigrants from northern Germany war. We have tools
and cooking utensils, we have passports someone go back well
to the early eighteen hundreds, and we have a lot
(07:58):
of pictures. We even have some people might be interested
in this. We have a painting of Kaiser Wilhelm with
his signature oh wow, so it's quite where a rare item.
We also have genealogical books and sources there and so
(08:20):
it's a very unique thing. The German Heritage Museum has
open Sundays from one to five or one to four,
i should say, and it's just a great place to
come out and learn more about the German heritage because
we're Alford Mulish kite and festivities, but we also want
to stress learning more about the cultural history and the
(08:44):
German immigration and the different groups we have here, which
we've been talking about because they all have their different
customs and tradition coming from different parts of the country.
And we'd like to see you there in your later
hosen good make it maybe to the Hofbrals or to
find the market. Would love to see you there and
(09:07):
everybody to come there and learn more about the German
heritage and have a good time. Also.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Yeah, profound connection between the Germans and the greatest Sincinti area.
As you point out now in regard to the German
Heritage Museum, you mentioned a number of artifacts and historic
things you have there, I'm kind of curious how you
collected those over the years, and if they're members in
the if there's members of the listening audience who might
have some historic items that are German connected, if they
(09:35):
want someplace, do you accept donations of things with historic
connection to Germany.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Well, we do connect items or collect items that relate
to the German heritage of our area. In other words,
we do not collections are just because they're from Germany
or related to Germany. They have to connect to our
area and to the German people who settled here, and
(10:02):
so yes, we can be contacted about donations. We do
have a Facebook site for the German Heritage Museum and
people have donated many valuable things. I mentioned these immigrant
trunks that we have from the nineteenth century and some
from the early twentieth century, the wooden shoes, we even
(10:26):
have a spinning wheel was brought here, and we had
tools that were made by craftsmen, because in the old
Country you studied a craft or trade by the apprentice
ship system, and then you had to produce a tool
(10:47):
that showed that you were had a master of that
trade and becoming all these people who had these trades,
they brought them here to this country, and they helped
build buildings and build our community here because of these
crafts and trades, so Andy don't have many. The passports
(11:09):
are interesting too, because in the nineteenth century they didn't
have a picture. They would have have a detailed description
of what a person look like. They tell if you
were thick or thin, if you had a pointed nose,
with the color of your hair, with your ears like.
(11:29):
The passports are really quite descriptive, or if you have
you know, whatever you look like in general. But yes,
we do like to collect some things, and some of
them items They came from the old German societies that
had holes in the over the Rhine district and we
collected their items. We had some very large pictures of
(11:52):
members of German societies going back to the early nineteen hundreds,
and in some cases we have collected the names of
the people in a picture. For example, the Bavarian Beneficial
Society that was found in eighteen seventy five, we've got
a picture, must have all about fifty sixty of the members,
(12:15):
and we have the names of these people. And some
people actually they've come to the museum they said, here's
a picture of our grandfather or our grandmother and we've
never seen this picture. Oh wow, it's really really something
that when they find that information. So we have again
(12:38):
all the German Day celebration. It's a fundraiser supports our museum,
and we're very proud that we have. Just think of
that one hundred and thirty years that our organization has
been founded. And we had some hard times in the past,
especially prohibition. Can you imagine having a German festival without beer?
Speaker 1 (13:02):
No?
Speaker 3 (13:04):
Well, thankfully we woke up and I got a clue
about the stupidity of prohibition. So celebrate with the Germans
even if you're not German. That's the other thing I
always like to point out. You are welcoming to all people,
so you can be a German on German Heritage Day
and checks and celebrate things German and the German Heritage Museum.
You know, Don Toltzman, I always appreciate the work that
you're doing on behalf of the German history and the
(13:24):
German community generally and all these different societies. You always
have a welcome spot here in the fifty five KRC
Morning Show and for my listeners, all the details for
these events that Harr Toltzman talked about are on my
blog page at fifty five KRC dot com. Uh feeling
donk Haro, Don Don Heinrich Toltzman, It's always a pleasure
to have you on.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Thank you so much, Brian. I keep up the great
work with every show.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
Thanks brother, I truly appreciate that. It's eight nineteen right now,
forty five KR see the talk station, and we're gonna
talk about the ALS fundraiser coming up. Richard Dickman's going
to join the program at the bottom of the hour,
and we're gonna hear from John Zinzer at eight forty
five at Save Hyde Park Square Signature Campane. Looks like
they've got enough. We'll get that details on that coming up,
and hope you can stick around.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Fifty five car the Toxi
Thing news that's well Trump does is.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Negotiate every day and he's an extremely small businessman.
Speaker 1 (00:05):
Fifty five r D Talk station.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
If it about krsee talks nation, must be something German
going on. Got our German Bubba music. Thank you to
Joe Strecker for that. And welcome back to the fifty
five KRSE Morning Show. Hair Don Heinrich Toltzman will come
and my friend, it's good to have you back on
the show.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Tonka Goten Morgan, Guten Morgan. Looks like a beautiful day,
beautiful weekend, and we have some great, good, beautiful news
for you. This coming week starts the German festival season.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Yeah, and I know.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
You patronize, would love to see you as our various
German events. And I think you even have a pair
of later.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
I do, I absolutely do.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Yeah, get those out and be sure to bring your
you're thirst and hunger along to our events.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Absolutely, that was I have to give a thanks going
back many years, the Colping Society got me the later hosen,
So really I'm pleased to own them only a few
occasions during the year when I can actually wear them
because as a fashion statement, just walking around an any random
day with leader hosen On. I think it looks weird,
but hey, they are. They're pretty cool. When you got
(01:26):
all the German folks around similarly dressed, you're in good company,
of course, hoisting beers and drink, eating the wonderful food
and the sausages and oh my god, my mouth is water,
and just thinking about it.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Well later hosting last forever they do. And you know,
in our area too, we figure that half the population
has German ancestry, so the largest ethnic ancestry group in
the area, second to us are the Irish and of
course many other people.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Here.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
We celebrate our heritage and we have this coming week
a big event. It's the one hundred and thirtieth German
Day celebration, and we have one of the oldest such
celebrations in the nation. And the German American Citizens League
is the sponsoring organization. Was founded in eighteen ninety five
(02:19):
and it's the umbrella organization of all the societies in
the Tri State. People might not realize it, but we
have more than forty of them. You mentioned the Colping,
that's one of the member societies. There's the Donal Schwaubman,
the Germania, the Hendelmeyer, Mustard Club. Yes, we do have
(02:40):
a German mustard club.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
I didn't know about that one. Oh it's great.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
They meet at Vitelmann's group ub once a month and
enjoy some good Bavarian mustard. We also have since Deutsch.
So many people don't realize that there are so many Germans,
and we have more in our area than in any
other city, and that means more than the Saint Louis,
(03:07):
more than a Milwaukee, and the German Embassy even said
that we were the German heritage center in the US.
So we are proud that we maintain our German heritage.
And for the one hundred and thirtieth German Day, we
have a three day. Three events had three different days.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
One day is not enough.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
You're celebrating the German Day singular because with events that
take place every three days.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
I got a kick out of that.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Yeah, I guess we should. Well, you can say German Days,
but we call it we celebrate you. Like you said,
it's not one day is not enough.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
No, we do well.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
I mean a lot of food.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
I know real quick. Here.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
The one thing I always thought was really really cool
in spite of the fact you have all these different
I'll say factions of German clubs out there. You all
get along and play together. Really you're supportive of each other.
Like if Coping has their October Fest, all the German
clubs show up and participate in the events. There's a parade,
they all have their own banners and it's just a
(04:11):
really cool thing that the German societies and clubs do well.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
It's all mutual support of each other and it reflects
the German immigration and the different parts of Germany, from
the South, from Bavaria to the north, all these different
parts of now each has their own customs and traditions
that we like to stress. Now we get going. On Wednesday,
(04:37):
the twenty eighth, we have a keg tapping at the
Hofbra House in Newport, so that'll be a lot of fun,
good food and drink there. And then on Saturday, the
thirty first of May at ten thirty we have our
German Day kickoff at Finlay Market. They have a very
(04:57):
nice beer garden there on Elm Street and we like
to meet in Finlay Market because that's where the roots
of many of our groups.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Go back to.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
And we'll have the Headdona Shauben dancers will be there
we will have a parade of all the different societies
that you were mentioning. Yeah, and then we have our
good German band, the solled the fair fair Eines Muzikompton
consists of musicians from the different German societies and even
(05:30):
promised this year they're going to play some of the
hit songs from eighteen ninety five, which is going to
be great. And then on Sunday, the first of June,
from eleven am to eight pm, we have the German
Day Celebration at the Hofboy House and we will have
(05:52):
the Colping zanger Kore, the German choir from Colping. We'll
have some Bavarian dancers there and of course a German band,
and we have all kinds of raffle prices that will
be available. And the grand prize is a dinner party
for thirty at the Holfbriye House. And some people said, well,
(06:17):
I don't know if I have thirty friends, but when
they turned out to be a winner, they have more
than thirty friends.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
That's a good point, don because that's exactly what I
was thinking. I mean, it would take me a month
to come up with thirty people to get to an
event or and like, wait, I don't have that many friends.
But it's free food, it's dinner. It's a hofbrow house.
The food's going to be great. There's going to be
beer flowing, and I know it excludes your alcoholic beverages
(06:45):
as these things I typically do, I think by law.
But you'll still be able to buy some beer when you're.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
There, exactly. And then I should say too, our celebration too.
It supports as a fundraiser for our German heritage museum.
We started at twenty five years ago and it's located
in the West Fort Park on the west side of town,
(07:14):
and we felt that there was nothing like it. There
is actually nothing like it in our midwestern area. A
German heritage museum. And it's in a beautiful park where
we have playground for children. There's a pavilion there, and
it's in a nineteenth century loghouse and we have many
(07:37):
interesting artifacts there. We have immigrant trunks, we have wooden
shoes that immigrants from northern Germany war. We have tools
and cooking utensils, we have passports someone go back well
to the early eighteen hundreds, and we have a lot
(07:58):
of pictures. We even have some people might be interested
in this. We have a painting of Kaiser Wilhelm with
his signature oh wow, so it's quite where a rare item.
We also have genealogical books and sources there and so
(08:20):
it's a very unique thing. The German Heritage Museum has
open Sundays from one to five or one to four,
i should say, and it's just a great place to
come out and learn more about the German heritage because
we're Alford Mulish kite and festivities, but we also want
to stress learning more about the cultural history and the
(08:44):
German immigration and the different groups we have here, which
we've been talking about because they all have their different
customs and tradition coming from different parts of the country.
And we'd like to see you there in your later
hosen good make it maybe to the Hofbrals or to
find the market. Would love to see you there and
(09:07):
everybody to come there and learn more about the German
heritage and have a good time. Also.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Yeah, profound connection between the Germans and the greatest Sincinti area.
As you point out now in regard to the German
Heritage Museum, you mentioned a number of artifacts and historic
things you have there, I'm kind of curious how you
collected those over the years, and if they're members in
the if there's members of the listening audience who might
have some historic items that are German connected, if they
(09:35):
want someplace, do you accept donations of things with historic
connection to Germany.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Well, we do connect items or collect items that relate
to the German heritage of our area. In other words,
we do not collections are just because they're from Germany
or related to Germany. They have to connect to our
area and to the German people who settled here, and
(10:02):
so yes, we can be contacted about donations. We do
have a Facebook site for the German Heritage Museum and
people have donated many valuable things. I mentioned these immigrant
trunks that we have from the nineteenth century and some
from the early twentieth century, the wooden shoes, we even
(10:26):
have a spinning wheel was brought here, and we had
tools that were made by craftsmen, because in the old
Country you studied a craft or trade by the apprentice
ship system, and then you had to produce a tool
(10:47):
that showed that you were had a master of that
trade and becoming all these people who had these trades,
they brought them here to this country, and they helped
build buildings and build our community here because of these
crafts and trades, so Andy don't have many. The passports
(11:09):
are interesting too, because in the nineteenth century they didn't
have a picture. They would have have a detailed description
of what a person look like. They tell if you
were thick or thin, if you had a pointed nose,
with the color of your hair, with your ears like.
(11:29):
The passports are really quite descriptive, or if you have
you know, whatever you look like in general. But yes,
we do like to collect some things, and some of
them items They came from the old German societies that
had holes in the over the Rhine district and we
collected their items. We had some very large pictures of
(11:52):
members of German societies going back to the early nineteen hundreds,
and in some cases we have collected the names of
the people in a picture. For example, the Bavarian Beneficial
Society that was found in eighteen seventy five, we've got
a picture, must have all about fifty sixty of the members,
(12:15):
and we have the names of these people. And some
people actually they've come to the museum they said, here's
a picture of our grandfather or our grandmother and we've
never seen this picture. Oh wow, it's really really something
that when they find that information. So we have again
(12:38):
all the German Day celebration. It's a fundraiser supports our museum,
and we're very proud that we have. Just think of
that one hundred and thirty years that our organization has
been founded. And we had some hard times in the past,
especially prohibition. Can you imagine having a German festival without beer?
Speaker 1 (13:02):
No?
Speaker 3 (13:04):
Well, thankfully we woke up and I got a clue
about the stupidity of prohibition. So celebrate with the Germans
even if you're not German. That's the other thing I
always like to point out. You are welcoming to all people,
so you can be a German on German Heritage Day
and checks and celebrate things German and the German Heritage Museum.
You know, Don Toltzman, I always appreciate the work that
you're doing on behalf of the German history and the
(13:24):
German community generally and all these different societies. You always
have a welcome spot here in the fifty five KRC
Morning Show and for my listeners, all the details for
these events that Harr Toltzman talked about are on my
blog page at fifty five KRC dot com. Uh feeling
donk Haro, Don Don Heinrich Toltzman, It's always a pleasure
to have you on.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Thank you so much, Brian. I keep up the great
work with every show.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
Thanks brother, I truly appreciate that. It's eight nineteen right now,
forty five KR see the talk station, and we're gonna
talk about the ALS fundraiser coming up. Richard Dickman's going
to join the program at the bottom of the hour,
and we're gonna hear from John Zinzer at eight forty
five at Save Hyde Park Square Signature Campane. Looks like
they've got enough. We'll get that details on that coming up,
and hope you can stick around.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
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