Alfred Messerli

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Alfred Messerli (born October 18, 1953 ) is a Swiss professor of popular cultures and researches, among other things, in the field of children's folklore .

Life

From 1973 to 1977 he completed his studies at the University of Zurich with a focus on German, social history and European folk literature. In 1978 he worked as a research assistant at the University of Bremen on the research project of the Central Research Commission on children's and youth literature with Dieter Richter . In 1988 he received his doctorate in Zurich with the dissertation Elements of a Pragmatics of Children's Songs and Children's Rhymes with Rudolf Schenda . In 2000 he completed his habilitation at the University of Zurich.

research

Messerli's research focuses on narrative research , self-testimony , mass image research , children's folklore and reader research. From 1991 to 1995 he conducted research on reading and writing from 1700 to 1900. Research into the enforcement of literacy in Switzerland. He edited the historical-critical edition of Ulrich Bräker's writings and was co-editor of the same. His empirical studies on the repertories of nursery rhymes and carols at 43 primary schools in Zurich with children from the 1st to 6th grade were included in the Encyclopedia of Fairy Tales, Vol. 7. Together with Philipp Sarasin and Sabine Maasen , he conducted research from 2004 to 2007 on sexuality - mediality - therapy: counselor communication and the construction of sexual self-conceptions, an investigation based on the column Liebe Marta in the tabloid newspaper Blick from 1980 to 1995.

Works (selection)

  • Nonsense in the head. Swiss autobiographies from three centuries. Unionsverlag, Zurich 1984.
  • Elements of a pragmatics of nursery rhyme and nursery rhyme. Zurich Diss. Phil. Sauerländer, Aarau 1991 (Sprachlandschaft 9 series).
  • Children's folklore. In: Enzyklopädie des Märchen Vol. 7 (1993), Col. 1269-1278.
  • (Ed.) Blickführung. Cinema 41. Stroemfeld, Basel / Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 3-87877-895-3 .
  • Reading and Writing in Europe 1500–1900. Comparative Perspectives. Schwabe, Basel 2000, ISBN 3-7965-1694-7 .
  • Reading and writing 1700 to 1900. Investigation into the enforcement of literacy in Switzerland. Habilitation. Max Niemeyer Verlag, Tübingen 2002 (German Linguistic Series 229), ISBN 3-484-31229-7 .
  • Addiction to writing: autobiographical writings by the Pietist Ulrich Bräker (1735–1798). Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-525-55829-5 .
  • Scripta volant, verba manent. Writing cultures in Europe between 1500 and 1900. Schwabe, Basel 2007, ISBN 978-3-7965-2315-1 -.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christoph Schmitt (Ed.): Narrative cultures in media change . Waxmann, Münster 2008, ISBN 978-3-8309-1564-5 ( limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed on September 19, 2010]).
personal data
SURNAME Messerli, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss storyteller
DATE OF BIRTH October 18, 1953