{"id":46622,"date":"2025-05-02T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T06:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wosonst.eu\/seemannsgarn-aus-dem-odenwald\/"},"modified":"2025-06-10T22:48:59","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T20:48:59","slug":"odenwald-shanty-choir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wosonst.eu\/en\/odenwald-shanty-choir\/","title":{"rendered":"Maritime superstitions in the Odenwald"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><strong>Far away from the sea, eight people came together on the slopes of the Odenwald in 1989 to sing sea shanties. Today, the concerts given by the Odenw\u00e4lder Shanty Chor (Odenwald shanty choir) are stage performances conveying feelings of home with a lingering scent of a sea breeze. And the shows are usually sold out.<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The very first notes on the accordion evoke the scent of a sea breeze bringing the smell of salt and seaweed to the listener. Together with the guitar and the mandolin, the calls of seagulls come to your mind. And when the polyphonic singing begins, you are right there\u2014by the sea. You can hear the surf and feel the wind. However, all of this happens in the centre of the Keltensteinhalle hall in the Weinheim district of Rippenweier, more than 500 kilometres from any coast. Actually, it can\u2019t get much further away from the sea in Europe than that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"BorlabsCookie _brlbs-cb-youtube\"><div class=\"_brlbs-content-blocker\"> <div class=\"_brlbs-embed _brlbs-video-youtube\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"_brlbs-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/wosonst.eu\/wp-content\/plugins\/borlabs-cookie\/assets\/images\/cb-no-thumbnail.png\" alt=\"YouTube\"> <div class=\"_brlbs-caption\"> <p>Mit dem Laden des Videos akzeptieren Sie die Datenschutzerkl\u00e4rung von YouTube.<br><a href=\"https:\/\/policies.google.com\/privacy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Mehr erfahren<\/a><\/p> <p><a class=\"_brlbs-btn _brlbs-icon-play-white\" href=\"#\" data-borlabs-cookie-unblock role=\"button\">Video laden<\/a><\/p> <p><label><input type=\"checkbox\" name=\"unblockAll\" value=\"1\" checked> <small>YouTube immer entsperren<\/small><\/label><\/p> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div><div class=\"borlabs-hide\" data-borlabs-cookie-type=\"content-blocker\" data-borlabs-cookie-id=\"youtube\"><script type=\"text\/template\">PGlmcmFtZSB0aXRsZT0iQWxsIEFyb3VuZCBNeSBIYXQiIHdpZHRoPSI1MDAiIGhlaWdodD0iMjgxIiBzcmM9Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LnlvdXR1YmUtbm9jb29raWUuY29tL2VtYmVkL0s5ZERMT3gxWTBBP2ZlYXR1cmU9b2VtYmVkIiBmcmFtZWJvcmRlcj0iMCIgYWxsb3c9ImFjY2VsZXJvbWV0ZXI7IGF1dG9wbGF5OyBjbGlwYm9hcmQtd3JpdGU7IGVuY3J5cHRlZC1tZWRpYTsgZ3lyb3Njb3BlOyBwaWN0dXJlLWluLXBpY3R1cmU7IHdlYi1zaGFyZSIgcmVmZXJyZXJwb2xpY3k9InN0cmljdC1vcmlnaW4td2hlbi1jcm9zcy1vcmlnaW4iIGFsbG93ZnVsbHNjcmVlbj48L2lmcmFtZT4=<\/script><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The choir travelled through the galaxy in a B.E.M.B.E.L. mug for its 20<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary in 2009.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And yet the Odenw\u00e4lder Shanty Chor manages after just a few bars to transport its listeners to the place its songs tell of. To the sea\u2014the place where Schann Scheid from Fr\u00e4nkisch-Crumbach once performed his heroic deeds. Manfred Maser, lyricist and narrator in the Odenw\u00e4lder Shanty Chor, talks about him when the question arises as to why a choir is singing about the sea here in the Odenwald of all places, where only <a href=\"https:\/\/wosonst.eu\/en\/granite-gems\/\">rocks form seas<\/a>. After all, Schann Scheid sailed the Seven Seas in the 19<sup>th<\/sup> century and was the first Odenwald native to go ashore on many coasts. He founded a shanty choir when he returned home after 25 years at sea. \u201cThis story is documented and well researched,\u201d Manfred adds, \u201cby imaginary Prof. Dr. Alfons Netwohr in the role of director of an institute for speculative local history based in Fr\u00e4nkisch Crumbach.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wosonst.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/WEB_Shanty_Chor_Odenwald_15_02_2025_Foto_Torsten_Redler-0058.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/wosonst.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/WEB_Shanty_Chor_Odenwald_15_02_2025_Foto_Torsten_Redler-0058.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-46526\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wosonst.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/WEB_Shanty_Chor_Odenwald_15_02_2025_Foto_Torsten_Redler-0058.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wosonst.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/WEB_Shanty_Chor_Odenwald_15_02_2025_Foto_Torsten_Redler-0058-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wosonst.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/WEB_Shanty_Chor_Odenwald_15_02_2025_Foto_Torsten_Redler-0058-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Prof. Dr. Alfons Netwohr likes to speculate\u2014not only, but above all, about local history.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While Manfred tells the story of Schann Scheid with dignified seriousness, Gabi Walther sits next to him having a hard time hiding her smile, even though she has heard the story many times before. After all, Alfons Netwohr, who incidentally looks remarkably like Manfred, is part of every concert. Gabi was there when the then still nameless choir was founded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wosonst.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/WEB_Shanty_Chor_Odenwald_15_02_2025_Foto_Torsten_Redler-0031.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/wosonst.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/WEB_Shanty_Chor_Odenwald_15_02_2025_Foto_Torsten_Redler-0031.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-46472\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wosonst.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/WEB_Shanty_Chor_Odenwald_15_02_2025_Foto_Torsten_Redler-0031.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wosonst.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/WEB_Shanty_Chor_Odenwald_15_02_2025_Foto_Torsten_Redler-0031-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wosonst.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/WEB_Shanty_Chor_Odenwald_15_02_2025_Foto_Torsten_Redler-0031-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Gabi Walther and Manfred Maser have been on board since the very beginning.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 1989, it was Odenwald locals\u2014well-travelled, like the imaginary Schann Scheid\u2014who returned to their homeland with shanties in their luggage. The brothers Arno and Thilo Spilger had worked as carpenters on a sailing ship and convinced their friend Matz Scheid that sea shanties also sounded good on dry land. Andrea, the sister of Arno and Thilo, joined in. And so it became clear that this shanty choir was not to remain an all-male organisation. A pub landlord told Gabi and some female friends about the new choir at the time and encouraged them to go to a rehearsal. \u201cThat was on a Friday evening,\u201d Gabi remembers. \u201cI had actually imagined something else than singing sea shanties in a living room.\u201d But she has now been doing it for over 30 years!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The cruise ship <em>La Traviata<\/em> has now set sail in the Keltensteinhalle, with 23 singers on board, who perform their current programme <em>Heute hier, morgen fort<\/em> (Here today, gone tomorrow). Stage design, costumes, lighting, songs, stories\u2014everything matches. The choir members don\u2019t just sing their songs, they play and tell them, making the performance a mixture of concert, theatre and dialect cabaret. Manfred alias Alfons Netwohr likes to share his \u201cspoon-sharp\u201d observations in Ourewellerisch, the Odenwald dialect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We want to remain an amateur choir\u2014however, on an advanced level<\/p>\n<cite>Gabi Walther<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The choir brings a new programme to the stage every two to three years, presenting new songs, new stories and new finds researched by the institute for speculative local history and staging characters, sayings and inside jokes that are an integral part of every performance and that the audience, apparently all regulars, eagerly awaits. When Manfred talks about Schann Scheid, he doesn\u2019t even have to mention where the fellow comes from. \u201cFr\u00e4nkisch-Crumbach\u201d is already ringing out from the audience. Even as a shanty choir newcomer in a packed hall, you feel like you belong to a close-knit community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wosonst.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/WEB_Shanty_Chor_Odenwald_15_02_2025_Foto_Torsten_Redler-0083.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/wosonst.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/WEB_Shanty_Chor_Odenwald_15_02_2025_Foto_Torsten_Redler-0083.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-46576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wosonst.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/WEB_Shanty_Chor_Odenwald_15_02_2025_Foto_Torsten_Redler-0083.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wosonst.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/WEB_Shanty_Chor_Odenwald_15_02_2025_Foto_Torsten_Redler-0083-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wosonst.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/WEB_Shanty_Chor_Odenwald_15_02_2025_Foto_Torsten_Redler-0083-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Some fans never miss a concert.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Manfred joined the choir a few weeks after it had been founded. He enriched it with a founding myth and, above all, with the first few all-night programmes. The choir grew and the expectation with it. Matz\u2019s arrangements became more and more sophisticated, the musicians more professional, the stories wilder and the halls bigger. In 1992, the choir was finally given a name: Odenw\u00e4lder Shanty Chor. \u201cWe could have thought of that earlier,\u201d Manfred comments. In the same year, the first CD, <em>Kleine Fische <\/em>(Small fry), was released, with more to follow. In 2007 and 2010, the choir received the German Record Critics\u2019 Award for its recordings. But it was always clear that \u201cwe want to remain an amateur choir,\u201d says Gabi, \u201chowever, on an advanced level.\u201d The singers rehearse once a week in the Alte Schule building in Gro\u00dfsachsen. They deliberately keep the number of concerts small, giving ten to twelve in a year. These are usually sold out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wosonst.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/WEB_Shanty_Chor_Odenwald_15_02_2025_Foto_Torsten_Redler-0075.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/wosonst.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/WEB_Shanty_Chor_Odenwald_15_02_2025_Foto_Torsten_Redler-0075.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-46560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wosonst.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/WEB_Shanty_Chor_Odenwald_15_02_2025_Foto_Torsten_Redler-0075.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wosonst.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/WEB_Shanty_Chor_Odenwald_15_02_2025_Foto_Torsten_Redler-0075-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wosonst.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/WEB_Shanty_Chor_Odenwald_15_02_2025_Foto_Torsten_Redler-0075-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The choir sings of the sea in front of a sea of spectators.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Valentin Moosmann became the choir director taking over the position from Matz in 2023. As a native of the Black Forest, he \u201cdidn\u2019t really plan on leading a maritime choir in the Odenwald,\u201d he says with a laugh. Valentin studied music in Mannheim to become a teacher and is currently completing his teacher traineeship where he is significantly younger than most of the singers. Rejuvenation of the choir is progressing only slowly. \u201cNone of the old ones want to leave,\u201d says Manfred, pointing with feigned indignation at Werner Schneider, who is celebrating his 71<sup>st<\/sup> birthday today. \u201cI\u2019ll sing until my body tells me otherwise,\u201d he says and climbs the stairs to the stage. Nobody here wants to stop. They have all grown together and grown closer over the decades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wosonst.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/PRINT_Shanty_Chor_Odenwald_15_02_2025_Foto_Torsten_Redler-0063-scaled.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wosonst.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/PRINT_Shanty_Chor_Odenwald_15_02_2025_Foto_Torsten_Redler-0063-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-46593\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Valentin Moosmann (left) has been directing the choir, some of whose members have been singing here for three decades, since 2023.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And the next generation is ready. Eleven-year-old Mattis sits on the last edge of his chair during the sound check before the concert and sings along loudly to every song drumming on the back of the chair in front of him. \u201cI have to be at least fourteen to be allowed on stage in the evening,\u201d he says. Just like his father Sascha, who sings and plays guitar in the choir. \u201cAnd you\u2019ll probably have other things on your mind when you have turned fourteen,\u201d Gabi interjects. Mattis looks at her indignantly and hurls a loud \u201cno-o-o!\u201d at her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wosonst.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/WEB_Shanty_Chor_Odenwald_15_02_2025_Foto_Torsten_Redler-0070.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/wosonst.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/WEB_Shanty_Chor_Odenwald_15_02_2025_Foto_Torsten_Redler-0070.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-46550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wosonst.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/WEB_Shanty_Chor_Odenwald_15_02_2025_Foto_Torsten_Redler-0070.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wosonst.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/WEB_Shanty_Chor_Odenwald_15_02_2025_Foto_Torsten_Redler-0070-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wosonst.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/WEB_Shanty_Chor_Odenwald_15_02_2025_Foto_Torsten_Redler-0070-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The choir is a tight-knit community not just on stage.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meanwhile, the cruise ship <em>La Traviata<\/em> is going through a lull at sea. The choir sings about it, turning the \u201cRoad to Nowhere\u201d by the Talking Heads into the \u201cBoat to Nowhere\u201d. It\u2019s not just classic shanties that the choir brings to the stage. Folk and rock songs are included in the programme, too; sometimes in the original version, sometimes rewritten in the Odenwald dialect. The choir presents compositions of their own and folk songs from all over the world. Like today, a song by the Wolof, an African people, which Manfred is particularly enthusiastic about because the language has words that sound very familiar. Then a sailors\u2019 choir from the Odenwald, accompanied on an Irish drum, sings a song in an African language about \u201cMonnem\u201d and \u201cWoi,\u201d which in Odenwald dialect mean Mannheim and wine. It couldn\u2019t be any more local!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"BorlabsCookie _brlbs-cb-youtube\"><div class=\"_brlbs-content-blocker\"> <div class=\"_brlbs-embed _brlbs-video-youtube\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"_brlbs-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/wosonst.eu\/wp-content\/plugins\/borlabs-cookie\/assets\/images\/cb-no-thumbnail.png\" alt=\"YouTube\"> <div class=\"_brlbs-caption\"> <p>Mit dem Laden des Videos akzeptieren Sie die Datenschutzerkl\u00e4rung von YouTube.<br><a href=\"https:\/\/policies.google.com\/privacy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Mehr erfahren<\/a><\/p> <p><a class=\"_brlbs-btn _brlbs-icon-play-white\" href=\"#\" data-borlabs-cookie-unblock role=\"button\">Video laden<\/a><\/p> <p><label><input type=\"checkbox\" name=\"unblockAll\" value=\"1\" checked> <small>YouTube immer entsperren<\/small><\/label><\/p> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div><div class=\"borlabs-hide\" data-borlabs-cookie-type=\"content-blocker\" data-borlabs-cookie-id=\"youtube\"><script type=\"text\/template\">PGlmcmFtZSB0aXRsZT0iVm9sbGUgS3JhZnQgVm9yYXVzISAtIE9kZW53w6RsZGVyIFNoYW50eSBDaG9yIiB3aWR0aD0iNTAwIiBoZWlnaHQ9IjI4MSIgc3JjPSJodHRwczovL3d3dy55b3V0dWJlLW5vY29va2llLmNvbS9lbWJlZC8yTERXaWhfOER4cz9mZWF0dXJlPW9lbWJlZCIgZnJhbWVib3JkZXI9IjAiIGFsbG93PSJhY2NlbGVyb21ldGVyOyBhdXRvcGxheTsgY2xpcGJvYXJkLXdyaXRlOyBlbmNyeXB0ZWQtbWVkaWE7IGd5cm9zY29wZTsgcGljdHVyZS1pbi1waWN0dXJlOyB3ZWItc2hhcmUiIHJlZmVycmVycG9saWN5PSJzdHJpY3Qtb3JpZ2luLXdoZW4tY3Jvc3Mtb3JpZ2luIiBhbGxvd2Z1bGxzY3JlZW4+PC9pZnJhbWU+<\/script><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Wanderlust ahoy! With a work by Manfred Maser and Matz Scheid.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shantychor.de\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">www.shantychor.de<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Far away from the sea, eight people came together on the slopes of the Odenwald in 1989 to sing sea shanties. Today, the concerts given by the Odenw\u00e4lder Shanty Chor (Odenwald shanty choir) are stage performances conveying feelings of home with a lingering scent of a sea breeze. 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