Entertainment Review: Werner Fricker III reviews our Kirchweihfest noting the coming together of our club to hold our most traditional event!
Tag: Banater Schwaben
Meet the Executive Board (2024-2026)
Meet Janet, Steve, Nichole, & Kathi, our Executive Board, each complete with their very own Action Figure!
Our Fall Special Event: Kirchweihfest, by Karina Fricker
Entertainment Review: October is a busy month filled with a lot of festivities! For the German Hungarians, the fall season holds one more special event. KIRCHWEIHFEST!!
Tradition & the 2023 Kirchweihfest, by Michael Fricker
Entertainment Review: On Sunday, November 26, we gathered at the Phoenix Sport Club, members, friends, the Cultural Group, four generations of German-Hungarians. And the Kirchweihfest is our most visible and real example of tradition in action. The fact that it is the most beautiful makes it what I like to all the most beautiful important day of our club calendar.
Behind Our Name: Part V, by Michael Fricker
In part IV, we discussed the various buildings that our club has called home and the names we gave them. Now this month we will finally tell the story of how our club went from the Banater Männerchor to the United German Hungarians of Philadelphia and Vicinity.
Behind Our Name: Part IV, by Michael Fricker
A club is not a building. It is not a field or a stadium. It is not a bar, a dance floor or a grove. A club is a social gathering of people around common feelings, ideas or goals. You, the members are and always were the club. Naturally, a club needs a gathering place and we have had a variety that we have given numerous names.
Behind Our Name: Part III, by Michael Fricker
In Part II, we expanded the definition of German-Hungarians as an ethnic group. With an eloquent passage from Rudy Rack we described the feeling of community these people gathered around in America. Then in 1922, our athletic club formed and in 1930, it took on the familiar name.
Behind Our Name: Part II, by Michael Fricker
Last week we discussed the Banat, the region that was once the home of our founders and many of our members. We ended on a note that after its founding in 1910, the Banater Männerchor became a rendezvous for all German-Hungarians in Philadelphia.