Anton-Joseph Ilk

Anton-Joseph Ilk 2017

Anton-Joseph Ilk  (born February 8, 1951 in Oberwischau (Vişeu de Sus / Romania)) is a German-speaking ethnologist  and writer .

biography

Anton-Joseph Ilk was born in Oberwischau (Vişeu de Sus / Romania) in 1951. After attending the German general school in his hometown and the Roman Catholic cantor school in Alba Iulia (Karlsburg), he studied theology there, was ordained a priest in 1977, then worked as a chaplain in Satu Mare (Sathmar) and later as a pastor in Baia Mare (Neustadt ). In 1998 Ilk returned to the country of origin of his ancestors and has since worked as a pastor in the Diocese of Linz. In 2009 he received his doctorate in European Ethnology / Folklore from the University of Vienna. Anton-Joseph Ilk's research area is the Wassertal in the northern Romanian Forest Carpathians. He has published several books and papers on this subject. Ilk is a member of the German Society for Folklore and of the Carpathian German Writers Working Group.

Works

• Ilk, Anton-Joseph: Ter Zipser with ter Laater. Kschichtn . Kriterion Verlag, Bucharest 1984, 148 pages.
• Ilk, Anton-Joseph: The singing table. Spis folk tales I. Dacia-Verlag, Cluj-Napoca / Klausenburg 1990, 220 pages.
• Ilk, Anton-Joseph: Zipser Volksgut from the Wassertal . NG Elwert Verlag, Marburg 1990, 483 pages.
• Ilk, Anton-Joseph: Everywhere and nowhere. Zipser Volkserzählungen II. Dacia-Verlag, Cluj-Napoca / Klausenburg 1992, 100 pages.
• Ilk Antal-József - Ardai Attila:  “… és ti is élni fogtok. Temetési prédikációk ” . Szent Maximilian lap- és Könyvkiadó, Budapest 2005, 292 pages.
• Ilk, Anton-Joseph: The mythical narrative world of the water valley . The role and function of fantastic beings in the life of the old Austrian woodcutters, presented in their orally transmitted stories from the   Forest Carpathians . Dissertation: Vienna 2009, 321 pages.
• Ilk, Anton-Joseph - Traxler, Johann: History of the German school system from Oberwischau. (Publications on the Zipsern im Wassertal, Volume 1). Verlag Haus der Heimat, Nuremberg 2009, 400 pages.
• Ilk, Anton-Joseph: The mythical narrative world of the water valley. The role and function of fantastic beings in the life of the old Austrian woodcutters, presented in their orally transmitted stories from the Forest Carpathians . (Publications on the Zipsern im Wassertal, Volume 2). Adalbert Stifter Institute of the State of Upper Austria, Linz 2010 (2nd updated edition: 2011), 400 pages.
• Schmitzberger, Gertraude: The origin of the forest system in the Wassertal. Edited, supplemented and edited for printing by Druckenthaner, Kurt and Ilk, Anton-Joseph. (Publications on the Zipsern im Wassertal, Volume 3). Verlag Haus der Heimat, Nuremberg 2014, 240 pages.
• Traxler, Johann - Ilk, Anton-Joseph: Songs and customs from the Wassertal. Secular and spiritual songs by the Upper Wischau Zipser, embedded in their traditions . (Publications on the Zipsern im Wassertal, Volume 4). Verlag Haus der Heimat, Nuremberg 2015, 496 pages.
• Ilk, Anton-Joseph: The immortality of wild women. 200 orally handed down fairy tales, legends, tales and everyday stories from the northern Romanian forest Carpathians. (Publications on the Zipsern im Wassertal, Volume 5). Adalbert Stifter Institute of the State of Upper Austria, Linz 2017, 678 pages. 
• B. Contributions in anthologies, edited volumes and reference works Ilk, Anton-Joseph: Sprüche auf Wandschonern in Oberwischau . In: JOV Volume 33, 1990, pp. 325-342. Ilk, Anton-Joseph: Folk medicine of the Oberwischauer Zipser . In: JOV Volume 35, 1992, pp. 288-299. Ilk, Anton-Joseph: The three carnival men. Oral tradition from Spis customs from Oberwischau. In: Új ég és új föld. Emlékkönyv Peter Jäger 65th Születésnapjára. Szent Maximilian lap- és Könyvkiadó: Budapest 2004, pp. 609–633. Ilk, Anton-Joseph:  Wu tås Edlweiß am schstn plicht; Klaka; Purim; Såg, I pin the mistake? Also in autumn ti Rosn is planning. In: The memory remains. Danube Swabian literature since 1945. An anthology . Volume 3, HJ. Edited and with a foreword by Stefan Teppert. Hartmann Verlag, Sersheim 2004, pp. 978-982; 775-791. Ilk, Anton-Joseph: The Maramures and their history up to the end of the 14th century . In:  CARPATHIAN BERRIES. Bavarian-Austrian settlement, culture and language in the Ukrainian-Romanian Forest Carpathians. Edited by Stephan Gaisbauer and Hermann Scheuringer. Adalbert Stifter Institute of the State of Upper Austria, Linz 2006, pp. 215–240. Druckenthaner, Kurt - Ilk, Anton-Joseph: Åchterholz, Kulíbn and Habou. The technical language of the woodworkers in the Wassertal. In: CARPATHIAN BERRIES. Bavarian-Austrian settlement, culture and language in the Ukrainian-Romanian Forest Carpathians. Edited by Stephan Gaisbauer and Hermann Scheuringer. Adalbert Stifter Institute of the Province of Upper Austria, Linz 2006, pp. 279–330. Ilk, Anton-Joseph: Reality under the spell of the fantastic. Reality and fantasy in the everyday life of the Zipser from the Wassertal. In: CARPATHIAN BERRIES. Bavarian-Austrian settlement, culture and language in the Ukrainian-Romanian Forest Carpathians. Edited by Stephan Gaisbauer and Hermann Scheuringer. Adalbert Stifter Institute of the Province of Upper Austria, Linz 2006, p . 367-390. Ilk, Anton-Joseph: The three carnival men. Oral tradition from Spis customs from Oberwischau. In: CARPATHIAN BERRIES. Bavarian-Austrian settlement, culture and language in the Ukrainian-Romanian Forest Carpathians. Edited by Stephan Gaisbauer and Hermann Scheuringer. Adalbert Stifter Institute of the Province of Upper Austria, Linz 2006 pp. 395–413. Ilk, Anton-Joseph - Mittermair, Ehrentraud: Ti plindi landlady. Hostel game based on an old Oberwischauer folk tale . In:  CARPATHIAN BERRIES. Bavarian-Austrian settlement, culture and language in the Ukrainian-Romanian Forest Carpathians. Edited by Stephan Gaisbauer and Hermann Scheuringer. Adalbert Stifter Institute of the State of Upper Austria, Linz 2006, pp. 415–425. Ilk, Anton-Joseph: To the language island of Oberwischau. A comparison of corresponding legend motifs in the stories of the Salzkammergut and the water valley . In: O-radl. Salzkammergut dialect variants . Edited by Kurt Druckenthaner. Series of publications by the B-Tracht Ebensee association, Ebensee 2007, pp. 232–272. Anton-Joseph Ilk: Carnival in Oberwischau. In: Rieder, Walter: Carnival in Ebensee. Fåschingtåg, Fåschingtåg, kim na båid wieda…! Salzkammergut Immaterial Cultural Heritage Association (IKES), Ebensee 2008, pp. 32–49; 135-141. Ilk, Anton-Joseph: The frog witch; Why do the geese scream in the night and why does the nut have a cross in the middle? In: Herzhafter Hauskalender 2012. Fairy tales and legends from the new EU member states, from the Baltic to Bulgaria, with special consideration of the German language islands. SFW vol. 61, Vienna 2012, pp. 89–91. Ilk, Anton-Joseph: The Christmas Guest; Why do the geese scream in the night and why does the nut have a cross in the middle? In: Karl Kriechbaum: Literature of the Eferding region. Anthology. Self-published, Eferding 2013, pp. 47–52. Ilk, Anton-Joseph: The mythical water world of the Traunsee . In: Swell. Results of field, rock and water research at the Traunsee. Edited by Kurt Druckenthaner, Stephan Gaisbauer and Klaus Petermayr. Adalbert Stifter Institute of the State of Upper Austria, Linz 2013, pp. 201–205. Ilk, Anton-Joseph: German priests in the diocese undesirable. In: Fink, Hans - Gehl, Hans: “Yes and no, comrades!”. Romanian Germans tell. From the Second World War to the fall of the Iron Curtain. Verlag IKGS, Munich 2014, pp. 570-584. Ilk, Anton-Joseph: Wischaudeutsch - special features of a Bavarian dialect in the Romanian Forest Carpathians . In: Krefeld, Thomas - Lücke, Stephan - Mages, Emma: corpus in the text. Between traditional dialectology and digital geolinguistics: The Audio Atlas Transylvanian-Saxon Dialects (ASD), published by the University Library of the Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich 2016, pp. 117–129. Ilk, Anton-Joseph: Wischaudeutsch - special features of a Bavarian dialect in the Romanian Forest Carpathians . In: Sprenzinger, Max: Bavarian in the world. Contributions to the conference of the same name on November 16 and 17, 2011 at the University of Regensburg. Edition vulpes, Regensburg 2016, pp. 68–80.