Choir group Mitte

Board team	Dr. Andre Tüncher (Three Churches) Tel. 0177/ 4436229 email: Andre.Tuencher@gmx.de
	Bernd Kaulbach (Herschbach, Uww) email:berndkaulbach647@gmail.com
	Paul Heusinger of Oberahr Tel. 0151/4127 0401 email: paulheusinger@gmx.de

202504 - Chorgruppe Mitte - Feedbacksingen in Ruppach-Goldhausen

Feedbacksing by the Chorgruppe Mitte on 06.04.2025 in Ruppach-Goldhausen

The Chorgruppe Mitte conducts group workshops and feedback singing on an annual basis. After the 2024 group workshop, feedback singing was invited to the Catholic parish church of Ruppach-Goldhausen in 2025.

As a juror, Mr. Christoph Haßler won as a juror.

He is full-time Head of Music at the State Study Seminar in Kaiserslautern.
He began his musical career as a child in the Southwest Palatinate Children's Choir Münchweiler an der Rodalb, then still under the direction of his father Bernhard Haßler. Through him he got to know the handling of the child's voice. In the meantime, he has completely taken over the children's choir.
In 1994 he founded a small female choir ensemble – ex-semble. Relatively quickly, the small ensemble developed into a first-class women's chamber choir.
With his two choirs, Christoph Haßler won several first prizes, awards and, on several occasions, the title ‘internationally outstanding’. At national and international choral festivals and competitions, he is a welcome guest with his choirs. Under his direction, various CDs were produced with both choirs and participated in many radio and television productions.
Christoph Haßler received several conductor awards and scholarships and was awarded the title ‘Chordirektor ADC’ for his outstanding artistic achievements and choral work. In 2021, Christoph Haßler took over the Pirmasens Oratorial Choir as musical director.
He is regularly invited to music academies, festivals and choral competitions as a lecturer, juror, workshop leader and guest conductor. Concerts led Christoph Haßler to numerous well-known European music centers, to Israel, South and North America.

The following choirs of the choir group Mitte followed the invitation to the feedback singing: Choreanders Ruppach-Goldhausen, MGV Frohsinn Staudt, CHORamel Niedererbach, Chorgemeinschaft Cäcilia – St. Katharina Niedererbach, Männerchor Liederkranz Berrod, Mixed Choir Cäcilia Dreikirchen, MGV Merry Hour Weroth and MGV Liederkranz Obererbach.

The event started at 10:30 a.m. in the church in Ruppach-Goldhausen. Karla Ternes on behalf of the board of the choir group Mitte and Andrea Wagenbach for the organizationally responsible choir GV Cäcilia Ruppach-Goldhausen welcomed the participating choirs and listeners.

In the first group they brought Chorianders Ruppach-Goldhausen (Mario Siry) with ‘Deo Gratias’ and ‘Feuerzeug’, the MGV Frohsinn Staudt (Fabian Glück) ‘Feuerzeug’, ‘Mambo’ and ‘Bis zum letzte Lied’, CHORamel Niedererbach (Sacha Trumm) ‘Horch was kommt von Außen rein’, ‘Somewhere in the world’ and ‘Poker Face’, the choir community Cäcilia – St. Katharina Niedererbach (Wolfgang Tüncher) ‘Hallelujah’ and ‘Tebje Pojem’ and the Merry Hour Weroth (Werner Blatt) ‘Periti autem’ and ‘Kyrie’.

The singers of the singing association Cäcilia Ruppach-Goldhausen together with the team of the Frenzer Grill in and around the parish house had taken care of the physical well-being, even during a one-hour lunch break.

With the second group of the day, the feedback singing continued after the lunch break. The men’s choir Berrod (Maria Siry) now presented ‘O sacrum convivium’ and ‘Lux aurumque’, the mixed choir Cäcilia Dreikirchen (Wolfgang Tüncher) ‘Grand us pease’ and ‘Ride the chariot’, and the MGV Liederkranz Obererbach (Emanuel Hecker) ‘In Paradisum’, ‘Non Nobis, Domine’ and ‘Ubi Caritas’.

After the lecture of each choir, Christoph Haßler conveyed his impressions and gave valuable support for the choral work and showed intricacies for improving the respective song presentations. He certified a high standard of performance for all choirs and encouraged them to continue along the chosen path. All singers and choral conductors benefited from the performances, which presented his tips on interpretation, emphasis, phrasing, pronunciation and much more in a relaxed and sympathetic manner.

At the end of the feedback singing, the juror was impressed by the quality of all the choral lectures and thanked him for a beautiful musical day that gave him a lot of joy. Following the event, he explained that the feedback was designed as a positive reinforcement, less than ‘criticism’ (what can/should the choir continue to work on, what can it optimise). All choirs were well prepared and very concentrated in their choral works, mostly a-cappella. He was also enthusiastic about the organization of the event.

After Karla Ternes' words of thanks to Christoph Haßler and the Sangesfreunde from Ruppach-Goldhausen, choirs and listeners still had the opportunity to round off the beautiful musical day in the parish centre in a relaxed atmosphere.

202511 - Choir group Mitte - Ceremony 2025

Ceremony 16.11.2025 in Niederahr

28 active people honored for many years of active choral singing

This year's award ceremony of the singers' group Mitte took place on 16.11.2025 in Niederahr.

The singers of the mixed choir ‘Beethoven’ Niederahr not only provided the musical framework for this, but also hosted the guests in a beautifully decorated room in the Niederahr Municipal House.

Marco Ruster welcomed all those in honor, your accompaniments and the speaker of the choir association Westerwald Alfred Labonte.

In his laudation, Mr. Labonte emphasized the importance of the honorary event and thanked the honorees for their long-standing loyalty to singing and choral music. By working in the local choirs, every active person renders an invaluable service to the cultural landscape in the Westerwald.

In the following association-related honours, the singers to be honored were presented by the respective association representatives and their achievements in the association were highlighted accordingly. One or the other anecdote from the long-standing active work also illustrated the connection and importance of the individual active people for the work and the cooperation in the choirs.

The following persons were honored:

MGV ‘Concordia’ 1909 Girod
Hans-Georg Reßmann for 50 years of singing
Franz Hommrich for 60 years of singing

GV ‘Cäcilia’ 1903 Großholbach e.V.
Alfred Schräder for 25 years of singing

Mixed choir ‘Chorfreude Heiligenroth’
Gerhard Christmann for 50 years of singing
Heribert Heinz for 40 years of singing
Jörg Gros for 25 years of singing

MGV ‘Frohsinn’ 1904 Herschbach
Pure Steel for 50 Years of Singing
Norbert Jewellery for 50 Years of Singing

MGV ‘Harmonie1919’ Oberahr
Rudi Assmann for 40 years of singing
Stefan Fein for 50 years of singing

MGV ‘Liederkranz 1904’ Obererbach e.V.
Raimund Hoffmann for 60 years of singing

Cäcilia Ruppach-Goldhausen e.V.
Jolina Money for 5 Years Singing
Rudi Ferdinand for 60 years of singing

MGV ‘Frohsinn’ 1896 Staudt
Theobald Höffer for 25 years of singing
Reinhard Haas for 60 years of singing
Helmut Lind for 60 years of singing
Hans-Josef Heitz for 40 years of singing
Mario Gerlach for 40 years of singing

MGV Frohsinn 1901 Steinefrenz e.V.
Reinhard Reimann for 60 years of singing
Matthias Bommersheim for 25 years Singing

Singers’ Association ‘Frohsinn’1870 Wirges e.V.
Frank Pehl for 40 years of singing
Raymond Wolf for 50 Years of Singing
Hans-Jürgen Schmitz for 50 years of singing

Women's choir Heiligenroth
Siglinde Scalfone for 25 years Singing

Mixed choir ‘Cäcilia’ Dreikirchen
Franz-Josef Pott for 50 years of board work
Martin Lenz for 40 years of singing
Klaus Meletzky for 40 years of singing