Bernhard Gamsjäger

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Bernhard Gamsjäger (born November 30, 1949 in St. Pölten , Austria ) is an Austrian teacher , author , regional and folk music researcher .

Life

Bernhard Gamsjäger grew up as the son of the ÖBB official Franz Gamsjäger (1915-2004) and Rosalia Gamsjäger (née Fahrngruber, 1918-2004) in Frankenfels ( Lower Austria ). From 1964 to 1967 he attended the federal commercial school in St. Pölten and subsequently worked for a tax consultancy firm. After military service (1969), he passed the external qualification examination in Vienna in 1971 . After Bernhard Gamsjäger had completed the teaching examination at the Federal Pedagogical Academy in Vienna in 1974 in the subjects of German and biology, he was employed as a teacher at the secondary school in Böheimkirchen .

He lives in St. Pölten, has been married since 1972 and has two daughters.

Scientific, local history and folklore activities

Gamsjäger has worked for the Lower Austrian Folk Song Association since 1979 . After studying paleontology , geology and human biology , he received his doctorate in philosophy at the University of Vienna in 1981 . He worked with the photographer Johann Marsam from 1982 to 2007, with whom he designed 25 regional historical exhibitions and various publications. Since 1989 he has organized the annual castle talks of the community of Frankenfels at Weißenburg Castle . Bernhard Gamsjäger has also been on the advisory board of the Niederösterreichisches Volksliedwerk since 1992 and in 1996 became a member of the board of the Volkskultur Niederösterreich - Niederösterreichisches Volksliedwerk; since 2004 author at the Austrian Music Lexicon (online). He has been a board member of the Austrian Folksong Society since 2008, and in 2010 Gamsjäger was included in the list of experts by the National Agency for the Intangible Cultural Heritage of the Austrian Commission for UNESCO.

Publications (selection)

  • Systematics and phylogeny of the Upper Triadic Cladiscitidae ZITTEL, 1884 ( Ammonoidea ) (= Austrian Academy of Sciences , mathematical and scientific class: memoranda. Vol. 122). Springer, Vienna 1982 (dissertation, University of Vienna, 1982). online (PDF; 15.6 MB)
  • Mensch und Wort (book of pictures and poems), together with Johann Marsam and Leopold Ott, St. Pölten 1984.
  • Frankenfelser house book . Frankenfels 1987.
  • The flugelhorn tantum ergo. A contribution to popular church music in Lower Austria . In: Yearbook of the Austrian Folk Song Works 36/37 . Pp. 105-109, Vienna 1989.
  • A “Turkish Wedding” - ethnic groups from Turkey in Lower Austria . In: Customs calendar of the Lower Austrian Heimatpflege . Pp. 148-151, Mödling 1996.
  • 40 years of Weggemeinschaft Fischbachgraben (together with Leopold Großerbacher). Frankenfels 1996.
  • The Frankenfelser Buch (together with Ernst Langthaler ). Frankenfels 1997.
  • Josefsberg, on 29 March 1948 ... . Commemorative publication of the Ötscherland Music Association, Frankenfels 1998.
  • Josef Harreiter - Otherwise I was quite happy with my life . Edited, annotated and edited by Bernhard Gamsjäger, Gösing am Wagram 1999.
  • 40 years of the Musikverein Ötscherland . Booklet for the double CD of the same name, Frankenfels 1999.
  • 50 years of rural youth in Frankenfels (Festschrift). Frankenfels 2000.
  • 750 years Kirchberg an der Pielach (Dramolet, together with Leo Resch), 2000.
  • Pielachtal. Musical custom (together with Walter Deutsch ). Corpus Musicae Popularis Austriacae 14/1, Vienna 2001.
  • Puchenstuben (local history and house book), Puchenstuben 2004 (2nd amended edition 2014).
  • Tradition in Motion (together with Verena Hofstetter), Atzenbrugg 2006.
  • Short Church Leader Frankenfels (together with Pastor Alois Brunner), 2006.
  • 50 years of the Musikverein Ötscherland (Festschrift), Frankenfels 2009.
  • "Irla's fence will be torn apart". The musicians' languages. In: biblos 60, 2011/2 , pp. 53–67.
  • Kirchberg an der Pielach. A journey through time (together with Michael Flieger, Eduard Gugenberger and Sabine Mick), Kirchberg an der Pielach 2013.
  • Svatba v Pielachtalu a svatba tureckých přistěhovalců v St. Pöltenu / Wedding in Pielachtal and wedding of Turkish migrants in St. Pölten . In: Eva Tomašova (ed.), Etnograficka terénni práce / Ethnographische Feldforschung , Havličkův Brod 2014, pp. 68–89.
  • Social democracy in St. Pölten 1918-1934. In: Stefan Eminger (ed.), St. Pölten between the wars. Politics, economy, culture 1918-1938 (= studies and research from the Lower Austrian Institute for Regional Studies 63), St. Pölten 2015, pp. 11–29.
  • The folk singer Sepp Fellner (1877-1936). In: Yearbook of the Austrian Volksliedwerk 64 (2015) , pp. 74–95.
  • From folk songs to folk culture in Lower Austria. In: Yearbook of the Austrian Volksliedwerk 67/68 (2018/19) , pp. 149–197.

Honors

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ ÖVP Frankenfels: Frankenfels Current . Issue No. 79 from March 1997, p. 4.
personal data
SURNAME Gamsjäger, Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian teacher, author, regional and folk music researcher
DATE OF BIRTH November 30, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Poelten , Austria