Birgit Zotz

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Birgit Zotz (born August 7, 1979 in Waidhofen an der Thaya ) is an Austrian cultural anthropologist , tourism scientist and author of non-fiction and specialist books.

Life

education

Zotz was born as Birgit Hutter. She grew up in Loibes , attended the Vienna Music High School from 1993 and studied the saxophone instrument at the Franz Schubert Conservatory from 1993 to 1997 . She completed studies in tourism science at the Johannes Kepler University in Linz and ethnology at the University of Vienna . She concluded this with studies on the development of tourism in Tibet (2008) and on Tibetan oracle priests (2010).

Scientific work

As a cultural anthropologist, Birgit Zotz deals with topics of religious ethnology such as initiation and the oracle . One of her main research areas is Buddhist topics. She also dealt with the work of Lama Anagarika Govinda and the movement that originated from him. From the estate of Govinda, she published his records of ritual initiations in Tantric Buddhism.

As a tourism scientist, Zotz dealt with the image of tourist destinations such as Tibet . Like Martin Brauen and Donald Sewell Lopez Jr. , she is one of the critics of Western ideas of Tibet in the sense of Edward Said's Orientalism thesis . She stated: “The fact that, according to a widespread cliché, there should be no enlightenment, modernity or technology for Tibetans to this day, cannot only be ascribed to the historical development of the image of Tibet, but must also arise from a present need. Do Tibetans have to remain in the Middle Ages for the Western imagination in order to keep an escape route from the modern era open? ”She also carried out a tourist study on the image of the Waldviertel .

further activities

Zotz is president of the intercultural institution Komyoji , member of the board of directors of the cultural publisher Kairos Edition in Luxembourg and lecturer at the International College of Tourism and Management in Bad Vöslau. Birgit Zotz is also the editor of Damaru magazine . As the wife of the philosopher Volker Zotz , she is, as he writes, involved in the creation of his works. Birgit Zotz has been the editor-in-chief of the magazine Der Kreis, founded in 1956, since 2015 . She is a senior member of the Lama and Li Gotami Govinda Foundation , and she is the curator of exhibitions such as the 2016 Tibet Saxon .

Works

  • Birgit Zotz (Ed.): A well-traveled man returns. Texts on the burial of Lama Govinda's ashes in Waldheim 2018. Munich: Edition Habermann 2018, ISBN 978-3-96025-012-8 .
  • Birgit Zotz (Ed.): Lama Anagarika Govinda: Far beyond me. Conversations about tantra and meditation . Grafing 2017, ISBN 9783894277673 .
  • Birgit Zotz (Ed.): Tibet's Saxon. Ernst Hoffmann becomes Lama Govinda. With contributions by Peter van Ham , Peter Michel , François Maher Presley, among others . Munich: Edition Habermann 2016, ISBN 978-3-96025-007-4 .
  • Lama Anagarika Govinda: Initiation. Preparation, practice, effect. Edited by Birgit Zotz. Luxembourg: Kairos Edition 2014, ISBN 978-2-919771-07-3 .
  • Destination Tibet. Tourist image between politics and cliché. Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-8300-4948-7 .
  • The Waldviertel - between mysticism and clarity. The image of a region as a travel destination. Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-89574-734-2 .
  • The image of Tibet as a travel destination in the mirror of German-speaking media. Linz 2008.
  • Birgit Hutter: The image of the Waldviertel as a holiday region. Vienna 2006.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See the entry Birgit Zotz in the Lexikon des Waldviertel for the biographical information
  2. ↑ Birgit Zotz: On the European perception of phenomena of possession and oracles in Tibet. Vienna 2010
  3. ↑ Birgit Zotz: “Initiation as an act of rebirth - an ethnological perspective” In: Der Kreis , No. 271 (May 2014), pp. 4-14
  4. ↑ Birgit Zotz: 'Twilight Earliest Human Experience' - Lama Anagarika Govinda and the oracles of Tibet. In: Volker Zotz (Ed.): Interfaces. Buddhist encounters with shamanism and western culture. Festschrift for Armin Gottmann on his 70th birthday. Kairos Edition, Luxembourg 2013, ISBN 978-2-919771-04-2 , pp. 83-104.
  5. ↑ Birgit Zotz: Eighty Years Ārya Maitreya Maṇḍala - A Chronology. In: Der Kreis No. 270, October 2013, ISSN  2197-6007 , pp. 6-21.
  6. ↑ Lama Anagarika Govinda: Initiation. Preparation, practice, effect. Edited by Birgit Zotz. Luxembourg: Kairos Edition 2014, ISBN 9782919771073
  7. ↑ Martin Brauen : Traumwelt Tibet. Western illusions. Bern 2000, ISBN 3-258-05639-0
  8. ↑ Donald S. Lopez : Prisoners of Shangri-La. Tibetan Buddhism and the West. The University of Chicago Press 1998, ISBN 9780226493107
  9. ↑ Birgit Zotz: Destination Tibet. Tourist image between politics and cliché. Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-8300-4948-7 , p. 59
  10. ↑ The Waldviertel - Between mysticism and clarity. The image of a region as a travel destination. Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-89574-734-2
  11. ↑ See also the biography on the author's website
  12. ↑ Damaru magazine (PDF; 3.1 MB)
  13. ↑ Volker Zotz: Business in the Land of the Rising Sun. Heidelberg 2008, p. 10.
  14. ↑ See the imprint and editorial of Der Kreis 273 (May 2015)
  15. ↑ Frank Korn: A world famous Waldheimer. In: Sächsische Zeitung of March 17, 2016
  16. ↑ Frank Korn: The return of a well-traveled . In: Sächsische Zeitung of May 21, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Zotz, Birgit
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hutter, Birgit
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian ethnologist
DATE OF BIRTH 7th August 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Waidhofen an der Thaya