Annemarie Weis

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Annemarie Weis (born April 27, 1877 in Riehen , † September 18, 1933 in Basel ) was a Swiss folklorist . She collected ethnographic objects in Upper Valais for today's Museum of Cultures Basel .

life and work

Annemarie Weis was born in 1877 as the illegitimate child of the widowed Maria Magdalena Weis-Hindenach (* January 22, 1854, † August 1, 1913). She grew up with two brothers (Georg Jakob, born November 13, 1875 and Emil Karl, born June 23, 1879) in Riehen near Basel.

As a working teacher at the secondary school in Riehen, she was financially independent. She remained unmarried all her life.

At the latest at the age of 32 (1909) Weis came to Valais for the first time; From April 1922 she lived for two years in Wildi near Saas-Fee and from May 10, 1924, she rented an apartment in Tamatten near Saas-Grund . She stayed there until 1927, spending some of the winters in Basel.

In addition to botany, Weis was also interested in folklore aspects of everyday life in Valais. Inspired by the “Exhibition of Folk Art and Folklore” in 1910, she began collecting systematically from 1916 onwards in exchange with Eduard Hoffmann-Krayer , the then head of the European collection. s the local language, the techniques of material culture and built relationships with the local people. It was based on the theoretical models of the time. Proponents of evolutionism such as Leopold Rütimeyer suspected traces of an assumed originality to be found in remote areas such as Valais, which, together with objects from “modern”, i.e. urban areas, should form a series of developments. Weis collected a number of “primitive” lighting devices, especially soapstone lamps , for the Basel Museum. Equipment from agriculture and animal husbandry as well as tools and aids for cheese production and animal husbandry, household items, wooden inscriptions and equipment for textile production fitted into existing collection interests at the museum; However, Weis also sent unsolicited objects such as heather crosses or plant material that she found ethnographically interesting.

Weis sent Hoffmann-Krayer the last folklore objects in 1928; until 1930 she provided the Basel botanist Hermann Christ-Socin (1833–1933) herbarium specimens. She fell ill on her last trip to Valais. Back in Basel, she was operated on in the Claraspital; she died on September 18, 1933 at the age of 56.

reception

Annemarie Weis contributed over 400 Valais objects to the MKB collection . Pieces from her collection have been published several times and shown in various exhibitions; She also published several short articles in the journal Schweizer Volkskunde . Nevertheless, her name did not appear prominently in specialist history for a long time. A quarter of her collection was not linked to her name in the MKB's collection database. The inadequate reception of this collector is representative of a tendency towards "becoming invisible" in the achievements of women in the early days of folklore.

Fonts

  • An old custom at auction. In: Schweizer Volkskund e 8 (1918), p. 7.
  • A local trickery in Valais. In: Schweizer Volkskunde 8 (1918), p. 8.
  • All kinds of folklore from Upper Valais. In: Schweizer Volkskunde 7 (1921), p. 53.
  • Folklore splitters. In: Schweizer Volkskunde 13 (1923), pp. 6-7.
  • Folklore from Saas (Valais). In: Schweizer Volkskunde 13 (1923), pp. 38–39.

literature

  • Museum of Cultures Basel (ed.): Tessel, pot and costume. Europe collected and exhibited. Basel 2015, pp. 134–135.
  • Margrit Wyder: About alpine flowers and people. Botany tourists in the Saas Valley in Valais. Visp 2018, pp. 63-67.
  • Tabea Buri, Karin Kaufmann: Ways out of invisibility. The collector Annemarie Weis and the Museum der Kulturen Basel. (will appear shortly).

Remarks

  1. ^ Margrit Wyder: From alpine flowers and people. Botany tourists in the Saas Valley in Valais . Visp 2018.
  2. ^ Letter from Annemarie Weis to Eduard Hoffmann-Krayer, June 11, 1925. Archive Museum der Kulturen Basel, VI_1133.
  3. ^ Letter from Annemarie Weis to Eduard Hoffmann-Krayer, February 8, 1926. Archive Museum der Kulturen Basel, VI_1133.
  4. ↑ a b c d Tabea Buri, Karin Kaufmann: Ways out of Invisibility. The collector Annemarie Weis and the Museum der Kulturen Basel . will be released shortly.
  5. ^ Leopold Rütimeyer: About some archaic equipment and customs in the canton of Valais and their prehistoric and ethnographic parallels (=  special edition from the Swiss Archives for Folklore XX, 283ff. ). Basel 1916, p. 7 .
  6. ^ Letter from Hermann Christ-Socin to Eduard Hoffmann-Krayer, October 10, 1933. Archive of the Swiss Society for Folklore, Af 57.
  7. ^ Museum of Cultures Basel (ed.): Tessel, Topf and Tracht. Europe collected and exhibited . Basel 2015, p. 134 .
  8. ↑ Thomas Antonietti (Ed.): Nahe Ferne. A century of ethnology in Valais (=  series of the Valais History Museum, 12 ). Baden 2013, p. 163 .
  9. ^ Louis Carlen: Folklore from the Upper Valais. Selected essays on folklore by Josef Bielander. Brig 1985, p. 149 .
  10. ↑ Museum der Kulturen Basel 2015: Tessel, Topf and Tracht.
  11. ^ Museum of Cultures Basel 2016: From cinnamon to star.
  12. ↑ Museum der Kulturen Basel 2016: Dancing in a Row. Single pieces in series.
  13. ^ Museum of Cultures Basel 2017: Migration.
  14. ^ Museum of Cultures Basel 2018: Sun, Moon and Stars.
  15. ↑ Museum der Kulturen Basel 2019–2020: Mother and Child.
  16. ↑ Brügglingen Mill Museum: permanent exhibition.
  17. ^ Riehen toy museum: permanent exhibition.
personal data
SURNAME Weis, Annemarie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss folklorist
DATE OF BIRTH April 27, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Riehen
DATE OF DEATH September 18, 1933
Place of death Basel