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Finally!

Every year at winter solstice the mountaineers choir “Kurt Schlosser” sings at the fairground in Kleinhennersdorf. And yes, the choir – founded in 1927, renamed in 1949 and probably well known to those who grew up in the GDR – still exists today.
Besides working as a carpenter Kurt Schlosser was head of the singing department of the United Mountaineering Department that later became the Saxon Mountaineers Choir. During the Nazi rule he was part of the illegal resistance; in order to distract his pursuers he became a member of the German-Austrian Alpine Association in 1937 and built a mountain shelter above the Zahnsgrund in Saxon Switzerland that until 1995 was named after him. In 1944 he was sentenced to death for high treason and was killed in Dresden. A “Stolperstein” (stumbling block) in front of his carpenter’s workshop in Leipziger Strasse 72 commemorates the courageous singer.