Speaker 1: See coming to a seven thirty two fifty five ker
Speaker 1: City talk station normally on that German Music's plan. I'm
Speaker 1: staring at a bunch of people in the studio that
Speaker 1: are surrounded by beer and brats and food and pastries,
Speaker 1: all things German. Because it is Octoberfest season. Why is
Speaker 1: my studio empty? I'm just joking with you. Welcome, Welcome
Speaker 1: back to the fifty five care Morning Show, mister German
Speaker 1: hair Don Heinrich Toltzman.
Speaker 2: Good to have you back on, Brother Guten Morgan, Guten Morgan,
Speaker 2: Bryan and I do. We greatly appreciate all the work
Speaker 2: you do for German heritage in the German community.
Speaker 3: We really liked.
Speaker 2: Your program and glad to come on and talk about
Speaker 2: the Octoberfest season.
Speaker 3: And it really is a season. It's not one single.
Speaker 2: Event and I'll be talking about that, but it's this
Speaker 2: season is widely celebrated in our area. And it's not
Speaker 2: surprising because Cincinnati is a major German heritage center. There
Speaker 2: aren't many people German background are settled throughout the US,
Speaker 2: but there are only three cities that are especially strong, Cincinnati,
Speaker 2: Saint Louis and Milwaukee, and together they form what is
Speaker 2: called the German Triangle, and in our in the tri
Speaker 2: state area, i'd say well over half the population has
Speaker 2: some German ancestry somewhere in their family trees.
Speaker 3: So I often say too that if.
Speaker 2: You don't understand German heritage, you don't understand our area,
Speaker 2: because it's an influence just about everything. And I've written
Speaker 2: a lot about it. Over the Rhine, the beer barns,
Speaker 2: the Robling Bridge, and I want to thank you for
Speaker 2: inviting me to come on so I could talk about
Speaker 2: the books in the pasting. I think they help explain
Speaker 2: our area.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I was steeped in German heritage. You know,
Speaker 1: I always joke around it. I don't think I have
Speaker 1: any German I mean, but I always feel like I'm
Speaker 1: part of the fun because, let's face it, yeah, all
Speaker 1: these festivals are simply about fun. You know the word
Speaker 1: gimuthli kite. We joke about that all the time, a
Speaker 1: sense of fellowship and fun, and ment's face it, anywhere
Speaker 1: you're putting, you bet a bunch of beer and a
Speaker 1: bunch of happy people filled with schnobs and strudel and
Speaker 1: amazing German sausage, along with the dancing and the kids
Speaker 1: and it's how can you not have a great time
Speaker 1: and feel German? Don I mean, that's what it comes
Speaker 1: down to.
Speaker 3: Well, we are a.
Speaker 2: Brewing heritage center always, I've been going back to the
Speaker 2: nineteenth century now. With regard to the october Fest season,
Speaker 2: a friend of mine last year tried to count up
Speaker 2: the number of Octoberfests and he came up with around twenty.
Speaker 2: So I followed up and I got together. I stopped
Speaker 2: at around forty. And the reason is there are many
Speaker 2: groups churches, breweries, restaurants and so on that they celebrate
Speaker 2: october Fest and it really reflects the popularity of commute
Speaker 2: kit as you mentioned, popularity of German heritage. So there's
Speaker 2: no way I can talk about all of them. But
Speaker 2: aside from being a historian, I'm also a president of
Speaker 2: the German American Citizens League, and that's an umbrella organization
Speaker 2: for German societies in our area. And many people might
Speaker 2: not know, but there are about forty of them and
Speaker 2: they range from the smaller, middle.
Speaker 3: Sized to larger groups.
Speaker 2: So I like to highlight them because they can be
Speaker 2: considered very authentic and information can be found about them
Speaker 2: on the Facebook site of the German American Citizens League.
Speaker 1: Staring right now, don because we're going to take a
Speaker 1: break and we'll bring it back to talk about some
Speaker 1: of what's going on in the upcoming the short term.
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Speaker 1: we'll bring har Toldsman back. I got to start off,
Speaker 1: and you can prepare yourself. I know you've provided people
Speaker 1: with the reason there is a celebration called october Fest
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Speaker 1: When addressing this one five KRCD talk station, Don Heinrich Toltzman, Man,
Speaker 1: he is an amazing author, you know, Don, I was
Speaker 1: just looking at Amazon. He type in Don Toltzman, Geez,
Speaker 1: how many books have you written?
Speaker 3: Man? Quite a few.
Speaker 2: But I would say I have so many possibilities to
Speaker 2: do research on here in the greater Cincinnati area. Brewing
Speaker 2: has been mentioned over the Rhine and Spring Grove Cemetery
Speaker 2: that was created by Ottolf Straus was the superintendent of
Speaker 2: landscaping there and made it a really a masterful piece
Speaker 2: of landscaping. So there's just many possibilities. And I would
Speaker 2: say too a large number of the works I have
Speaker 2: translated from German, and the reason being was that these
Speaker 2: are the only sources of information, and I felt they
Speaker 2: needed to be made available because they weren't. This is
Speaker 2: especially true with regard to the Civil War wrote and
Speaker 2: many people are not aware and it's not recorded in
Speaker 2: books in the English language. How the large contribution to
Speaker 2: the Union Army of the Germans made.
Speaker 1: Yes, sir, are well read all about it. And I
Speaker 1: also noted and I thought it was a timely that
Speaker 1: I observed this. She wrote the book about the Weedeman,
Speaker 1: the founder of the Weedeman Brewery, George Whedaman, Northern Kentucky's
Speaker 1: beer baron the man and his brewery. We're having a
Speaker 1: listener to lunch next Wednesday at weedem and brew House
Speaker 1: in Saint Bernard. No connection. I don't know if it's
Speaker 1: the Weedeman family, but I thought that made sense to
Speaker 1: remind folks you've written a book about him. But she's Louis.
Speaker 1: So many books on German history. It's just it's overwhelming.
Speaker 1: So thank you for your contribution to history and documenting all.
Speaker 1: This the only place you can find much of what
Speaker 1: Don Holtzman has written about or Toltzman's written about. So
Speaker 1: onto October Fest, and before we get to some of
Speaker 1: the events, what is the genesis of the celebration? Because
Speaker 1: this has been going on for one hundred of years, hasn't.
Speaker 3: It It has.
Speaker 2: It goes back to the anniversary celebration of the wedding
Speaker 2: in Munich of Crown Prince Ludovich to Princess Teresa Ozaksa
Speaker 2: hillsborg Hausen, and they were married on the twelfth of
Speaker 2: October in eighteen ten.
Speaker 3: And there.
Speaker 2: The wedding celebration proved to be so popular it became
Speaker 2: an annual celebration and each year it got bigger and better.
Speaker 2: There many booths and beer tents were added from the
Speaker 2: breweries in Munich and developed into the festival known as Octoberfest.
Speaker 2: This season, it was moved back into September because of
Speaker 2: inclement weather, and that's why in Munich it does begin
Speaker 2: on the twenty first of September now and goes through
Speaker 2: October sixth. So that's why people ask why does a
Speaker 2: beginning so earlier it had in Munich. It had to
Speaker 2: do with inclement weather now, so for those that time
Speaker 2: period in Munich, it'll be celebrated then. But I have
Speaker 2: to say that we have a longer season of Octoberfest
Speaker 2: because in our area begins at the end of August
Speaker 2: and then it does go up to the early October,
Speaker 2: and our season it began this last weekend. The Germania
Speaker 2: Society had its october Fest. It began celebrating in nineteen
Speaker 2: seventy one and it actually pioneered celebrating october Fest in Cincinnati.
Speaker 2: Had began in harrist Holme Park on the West Side,
Speaker 2: and for many years it has been at the Germania
Speaker 2: Park and Coloring Township. And this weekend the season begins
Speaker 2: with the Liberty Home German Society in Hamilton, Ohio.
Speaker 3: It begins.
Speaker 2: Later at today and continues on through Sunday, and the
Speaker 2: opening ceremony is five pm on Saturday. This will be
Speaker 2: its fifty eighth anniversary and its Liberty Home is one
Speaker 2: of the many German societies. The big Octoberfest we have
Speaker 2: here is Octoberfest Cincinnati, and something about the history about
Speaker 2: that is interesting. In nineteen seventy six, the US celebrated
Speaker 2: it's bi centennial, too hundred anniversary, and so the German
Speaker 2: American Citizens League, which I mentioned, recommended that the city
Speaker 2: celebrate German heritage by a city wide Octoberfest for everybody
Speaker 2: to celebrate German heritage, everybody, bring the city all together
Speaker 2: and celebrate for the weekend of the Mutelishkite.
Speaker 3: And so.
Speaker 2: We've worked together with the Chamber of Commerce on that.
Speaker 2: We do have now the largest Octoberfest in the US,
Speaker 2: second only to the one in Munich, which by the way,
Speaker 2: is our sister city. And we have many exchange programs
Speaker 2: that go back and forth, students and firemen and art exhibits.
Speaker 2: There's all kinds of connections that we have to the
Speaker 2: sister city.
Speaker 1: Well as well we should be sister city of Munich.
Speaker 1: I mean, Lord Almighty, and it is a neat thing.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, a little old Cincinnati often overlook.
Speaker 1: You know, we're a flyover state and low and behold
Speaker 1: the second largest Octoberfest outside of Munich. I think that
Speaker 1: speaks volumes to our the proud, we the hew proud
Speaker 1: we are of our German heritage.
Speaker 2: Well, you know, another great thing is we have had
Speaker 2: the october Fest Cincinnati in the downtown district for some
Speaker 2: time since nineteen seventy six, but this year has a
Speaker 2: great and beautiful location. It will be at Sawyer Point
Speaker 2: along the banks.
Speaker 3: Of the Ohio River, which it's like the American Rhineland.
Speaker 2: And it will take place Thursday through Sunday, September nineteenth
Speaker 2: to the twenty second, and as usual, we will have
Speaker 2: a brass band from Bavaria. And another interesting thing about it,
Speaker 2: a presenting sponsor is Sam Adams, which the brewery in
Speaker 2: the West End and it's brewed by Boston Beer Company,
Speaker 2: and that was founded by Jim Cole, who actually is
Speaker 2: a native Cincinnati and of German descent. And we's been
Speaker 2: here and he'll be here this year. We'll have a
Speaker 2: procession on the Saturday of the fest.
Speaker 3: With Jim will be there.
Speaker 1: That's great.
Speaker 2: And we also we always have city council members from
Speaker 2: Munich that we'll be here. And another great thing, we'll
Speaker 2: have this huge tent. And so your point, they're a
Speaker 2: great big beer tent.
Speaker 3: It's just going to be great.
Speaker 2: So the fest continues on with the Donah Schwaben Society.
Speaker 2: They have their fest at on October fourth through six.
Speaker 2: It's the thirty second anniversary. They're located in Cole Rane Township,
Speaker 2: and I know you've been there. We had a beer
Speaker 2: out there, well.
Speaker 1: Yes we did. Don Since we're out of time, I'll
Speaker 1: remind my listeners German American Citizens Leaguer Greater Cincinnati keeping
Speaker 1: tabs on all these and we'll have you back as
Speaker 1: these events get closer to remind people what's going on
Speaker 1: in the details. Harol Holdtzman, keep up the great work
Speaker 1: and thank you for documenting our wonderful German heritage here
Speaker 1: in the Greater Cincinnati area.
Speaker 3: Thank you so much. Brian, keep up the great work.
Speaker 1: Thanks brother. I'm just I'm happy to be in a
Speaker 1: position to do it. Take care of yourself. We'll talk soon.
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