English Translation

22-6 Schülerorchester with an average of 30 instrumentalists. In him the current mayor Richard Rusy worked as a flutist, the other concert master of the Sudetendeutsche Philharmonie Franz Klein sat next to the composer Dr. Franz Dehm on the first desk of the violinists, the Landrat von Preßniz, Dr. Frank Rohleder, played clarinet. From 1912, the annual academies of the two high schools were an important event in the annual run of the city. All good music literature was played and performed there. There were their own concerts of hands, Wagner, Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms, Smetana and Dvorak, and Romberg's "Lied von der Glocke" was performed twice. The S o m e r fe st e in the Posthof, Freundschaftssaal, Schweizerhof, in Dallwiß (Körnereiche) were mainly devoted to folk song and lighter music. On a memorable evening in the Schüzenhaus, German folk songs from all times and geese were sung, played, represented in living pictures and dances. Like the choir, the school orchestra often participated in events organized by the Federation of Germans, the Cultural Association (Kindersymphonie von Haydn und von Romberg), the Mother's Days, Goethe and Lessing celebrations, and the Youth Welfare. The development of the musical facilities of our students also stimulated acting experiments. Theatre performances. Act from Goethe's "Iphigenie", Wallenstein's Lager, "A Summer Night's Dream" by Shakefpeare, Goethe ́s "Lila" with music after Saydn, Ludwig Thomas Lustspiel "First Class", "The Waster" by Raimund are, in addition to many swans and amateur plays, signs of the joy of playing by teachers and students. In September 1939, the construction of a music class, which was compulsory for all classes and all pupils, was established in accordance with the new guidelines of the Minister of Education and Education of the Reich, who, under the direction of the secondary school teacher M. Beck (previously working in the Saar region), assumed a more general scale from year to year. The aim of the new teaching of music is summed up by the Minister of Education of the Reich in the words: "In school lessons, the growing youth must be awakened at the same time the value of music and the joy of musical activity." The education of a people capable of understanding music in its entirety and of living participation in music is the last and highest task of school music lessons. Here the seed must be laid, from which the willingness to a deep, serious artistic experience should ripen. Counsellor Hans Loren z: For science and art. The teachership of our school. not only took a deep part in the spiritual life of the homeland, but also had strong impulses from it and it has done a large and varied spiritual work in addition to professional activity. Understandably, the research first turned to the history of Karlovy Vary, the Egerland and the subsequent Upper Saxony settlement area. Certainly, this historiography was a reflection of the sense of home, but it also always had a high political-völkish significance. In the same sense, the homeland and ethnology was cultivated by research and representation of all 11