Admin and Founding of the Association
Secretaries
The paperwork of the young FSCDC was at first managed by
Franziska Völker, and she also
liaised with the Frankfurter Tanzkreis until “Schorsch” Lusky took
over that job. From 1984, Hannelore Mansky served as the
administrative backbone of the club for 20 years and handled tasks
like organising the ball, keeping in touch with the RSCDS, fielding
inquiries, announcing events within the group, etc.
From 1996 Schorsch assumed some jobs such as liaising with the
Frankfurter Tanzkreis, managing the club’s membership roster, and
ensuring the availability of the hall keys and PA every Tuesday.
In 2003, Eva Schiedrum together with Schorsch took over from Hannelore
as secretary, but in December, 2010, passed the job on to Marie
Schwarz, who held it until the association was founded in
2018. Already in 2017 Kathrin Büchele and Birgit Stefanowicz
participated in organising events.
Internet and Logo
Incidentally, the Internet domain “frankfurt-scd-club.org” was first
registered by Anselm in July 2001, and soon afterwards the first FSCDC
web site appeared. Online registration for balls and other events has
been possible since 2006. The club’s logo, originally meant as a
temporary stopgap, was also established at that time. Anselm had
sketched the original in ballpoint pen on a very small piece of paper;
for the current “digital” version he scanned and vectorised it and
added the lettering, and as a computer graphics dilettante he is still
astounded that this had worked so well given the less-than-optimal
starting point! To people who know Frankfurt a little: The logo shows
(at least in theory) the
Paulskirche (St Paul’s church), the
Römer
(medieval town hall) and the
Messeturm, together with a pair of
Scottish dance shoes.
FSCDC e.V.
With the protracted demise of the
Frankfurter Tanzkreis extending
over some years and its eventually practically complete disinterest in
the FSCDC’s work it became quite clear that it would be indispensable
for the future of the FSCDC to give the club an independent legal
existence. (Even the
Frankfurter Tanzkreis was never a genuine
registered association, but rode on the coattails of the
Frankfurter
Jugendring e.V. (Frankfurt Youth Federation) as far as, e.g., access
to municipal event venues was concerned – until it transpired that the
FTK does practically no work with young people. Bother.) In other
words: An association had to be established, in order to endow the
FSCDC itself with the coveted “e.V.” suffix and an existence as a
“legal entity”, and subsequently to be able to negotiate on our own
behalf, e.g., with the Frankfurt municipal authorities about the IGS
Herder gymnasium.
After some efforts in approximately 2009–10, which eventually didn’t
go anywhere (because, reasons), in November 2018 it was finally time:
On the 13th we held an inaugural meeting (see photograph) and the
official association “Frankfurt Scottish Country Dance Club” was
incorporated with 20 founding members. Kathrin Büchele was elected
founding chairman, and a committee was formed consisting of
(alphabetically) Anselm Lingnau, Birgit Stefanowicz, Dirk Holger
Meinecke, and Jan Zisenis. It took until March, 2019, to clear up some
issues with the constitution to the satisfaction of the registration
court, but then the FSCDC was entered into the register of
associations and we were finally done!
Since then we have tidied up a number of things that had been
studiously ignored and/or seemed to have worked “just like that”. For
example, we now carry insurance that should cover various issues, and
are renting the IGS Herder gymnasium ourselves. Anselm, too, now has a
proper contract which establishes him as an independent dance teacher
working for the FSCDC e.V. and also ensures a (modest) stipend for
him. What’s not so nice is that we aren’t a proper “sports
association” and that therefore some perks are inaccessible to us –
but we would have to be part of the Landessportbund Hessen (Hesse
State Sports Federation), and of course SCD is completely unknown
there (as well as at the Hessischer Tanzsportverband e.V., the Hesse
Dance Sport Federation). But who knows what will happen in the future.
The FSCDC e.V. managed to navigate the COVID-19 pandemic mostly
unscathed, in spite of some dry spells during which we couldn’t dance
“live” and were restricted to online presentations and “virtual
classes”. Currently (August 2022) numbers are still below the level of
2019, but the trend is moving upwards slightly and we’re quite
positive that we will be able to position ourselves well for the
future.
(The photograph shows our honourary member Liesl Otterbein, Frankfurt
dancer almost from the very beginning and still a friend and
benefactor of the FSCDC e.V., with Eva Schiedrum and “Schorsch” Lusky
at the 50th Frankfurt Spring Ball.)
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