Bernhard Tschofen

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Bernhard Tschofen (born June 17, 1966 in Bregenz , Vorarlberg ) is an Austrian cultural scientist and European ethnologist . He teaches and researches at the University of Zurich .

Live and act

Bernhard Tschofen studied folklore and art history at the University of Innsbruck from 1984 to 1986, and empirical cultural studies and art history at the University of Tübingen from 1986 to 1992 (MA 1992). After working in museums and exhibitions a. a. At the Austrian Museum for Folklore in Vienna, he worked as a university assistant at the Institute for Folklore / European Ethnology at the University of Vienna from 1995 and became active in 1999 on the basis of his dissertation on Mountain - Culture - Modernism. Folklore from the Alps at the University of Tübingen for Dr. rer. soc. PhD . In 2001 he completed his habilitation in European ethnology and was appointed associate professor at the University of Vienna. From 2004 to 2013 he was Professor of Empirical Cultural Studies at the Ludwig Uhland Institute at the University of Tübingen. Since 2013 he has been Professor of Popular Cultures at the ISEK - Institute for Social Anthropology and Empirical Cultural Studies at the University of Zurich .

Bernhard Tschofen has been Vice-President of SIEF - Société Internationale d'Ethnologie et de Folklore since 2017 and was a. a. from 2001 to 2004 second deputy chairman of the German Society for Folklore , from 2004 to 2007 Vice-President of the Society for Folklore in Vienna and from 2008 to 2013 member of the board of the SIEF. He is a member of the board of directors of the Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences (SAHS) as well as advisory boards of various scientific and cultural institutions in Austria and Switzerland.

His research and teaching focus is on regional ethnography and cultural-scientific spatial research, cultural analysis of everyday life, knowledge cultures and museum studies.

Awards

Fonts (selection)

  • with Reinhard Johler and Herbert Nikitsch: Beautiful Austria. Homeland protection between aesthetics and ideology. Austrian Museum of Folklore, Vienna 1995.
  • with Reinhard Johler and Herbert Nikitsch: Post from beautiful Austria. An ethnographic research on the present. Association for Folklore, Vienna 1996.
  • Mountain culture modern. Folklore from the Alps. Special number, Vienna 1999.
  • with Sabine Dettling: Traces. Ski culture on the Arlberg / Tracks. The Arlberg and the Culture of Skiing. Bertolini, Bregenz 2014.
  • [3312] Piz Buin . Literary explorations 1865–2015. Bertolini, Bregenz 2015.
Editorships
  • Regina Lampert : The Swabian woman. Memories of a young maid from Vorarlberg 1864–1874. Limmat, Zurich 1996; last 7th edition, 2010.
  • with Herbert Nikitsch: folk art. Lectures of the Austrian Folklore Conference Vienna 1995. Association for Folklore, Vienna 1997.
  • Mithrsg .: Ethnic symbols and aesthetic practice in Europe. Institute for Folklore of the University of Vienna, Vienna 1999.
  • Mithrsg. Gottfried Korff : Museum things. deposit - expose. Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2002; 2nd edition, 2007.
  • with Reinhard Johler: European Ethnology. Austrian Journal of History 15 (2004) / Studienverlag, Innsbruck 2004.
  • Mithrsg .: vocabulary. Collecting and finding the words. City Museum Tübingen , Tübingen 2008.
  • GrenzRaumSee. An ethnographic journey through the Lake Constance region. TVV, Tübingen 2008.
  • with Reinhard Johler: Empirical cultural studies. A Tübingen encyclopedia. TVV, Tübingen 2008; 2nd edition, 2015.
  • with Lioba Keller-Drescher: dialect and regional cultural research. Traditions and perspectives of regional cultural research. TVV, Tübingen 2009.
  • Mitredsg .: Kaspar Maase : The law of the ordinary. About popular culture. TVV, Tübingen 2011.
  • Mitredsg .: Gottfried Korff : Simplicity and meaningfulness. Folklore studies on ritual and symbol. TVV, Tübingen 2013.
  • Mithrsg .: Kultur_Kultur: Thinking. To research. Representation (38th Congress of the German Society for Folklore, Tübingen 2011). Waxmann, Münster a. a. 2013.
  • Mithrsg .: Out of the Tower. Essays on Culture and Everyday Life. TVV, Tübingen 2013.
  • Mithrsg .: Utz Jeggle : Exploring the foreign in one's own. Contributions to the anthropology of everyday life. TVV, Tübingen 2014.
  • with Gustav Schoder: Traces. Ski culture on the Arlberg / Tracks. The Arlberg and the Culture of Skiing. Bertolini, Bregenz 2014.
  • Mithrsg .: Understanding museums. Concepts of theory and practice. Wallstein, Göttingen 2015.
  • Mithrsg .: Taste - Power - Tradition. Geographical Indications as Cultural Property. University Press, Göttingen 2017.
  • Edited by : Saisir le terrain ou l'invention des sciences empiriques en France et en Allemagne . Septentrion, Lille / Villeneuve d'Ascq 2017.
  • Mithrsg .: criss-cross and transverse moves. Contributions to a literary anthropology . Wehrhahn, Hanover 2019
  • with Michaela Fenske: Managing the Return of the Wild. Human Encounters with Wolves in Europe . Routledge, Abingdon / New York 2020.
  • Mithrsg .: knowledge media of space. Interdisciplinary perspectives . Chronos, Zurich 2020.

literature

  • Alois Niederstätter : Laudation for Prof. Dr. Reinhard Johler and Prof. Dr. Bernhard Tschofen. In: Alois Niederstätter: Vorarlberg - and beyond. Universitätsverlag Wagner, Innsbruck 2015, pp. 398–400.

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personal data
SURNAME Tschofen, Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian cultural scientist and European ethnologist
DATE OF BIRTH June 17, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Bregenz , Vorarlberg