Catherine Griefenow-Mewis

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Catherine Griefenow-Mewis (born February 10, 1941 in Stockholm ) is a German Africanist .

life and work

As the daughter of Karl Mewis and Luise Mewis geb. Dahlem († 1957) she was born in Stockholm, where her parents were conspiratorially (KPD national leadership in Sweden ) for the KPD . Her father became first party secretary of the SED in Mecklenburg and in the Rostock district for a short time in 1946 and from 1950 to 1961 , so that Catherine went to school in Rostock and graduated from the 1. EOS Rostock in 1958 . She studied at the Humboldt University in Berlin at the Institute for African Studies, with Hildegard Höftmann , among others . In 1965 she graduated, in 1970 her doctorate and in 1981 her habilitation. From 1967 to 1971 she lived in Cairo , first as a lecturer at the university, then as a lecturer at the Information and Culture Center of the GDR, which had been set up before diplomatic relations with Egypt were established in 1969. From 1971 she was a lecturer at the Humboldt University Berlin, from 1990 she taught there as a private lecturer and lecturer until 2006.

Her name changed several times through marriage: it was only before 1961 to Catherine Haacke, then she married Mohamed Nabil El-Solami (El-Solami-Mewis) in 1976, who died in 1987, and Wolfgang Griefenow in January 1990. Several children were born from the first two marriages.

She researched several African languages ​​and wrote textbooks for Somali and Oromo (old name Galla). In particular , she dealt with the languages ​​in Ethiopia beyond linguistic aspects.

Fonts

  • Catherine Haacke: The conjunctions in Galla: a syntactic-semantic analysis, dissertation 1970
  • Grammatical problems of Somali and their methodological implementation in an elementary course , habilitation thesis, Berlin 1981
  • Textbook of Somali , Leipzig 1987
  • with Ulrich van der Heyden : Between class struggle and new thinking, LIT, Münster 1993
  • Oromo's textbook (African science textbooks, vol. 6), Köppe, Cologne 1994 ISBN 978-3-927620-05-6
  • with Tamene Bitima: A Grammatical Sketch of Written Oromo (Grammatical Analyzes of African Languages, vol. 16), 2001
  • Oromo Oral Poetry Seen from Within , 2004
  • (Ed.): African Horizons. Studies on languages, cultures and history , Festschrift for Hildegard Höftmann, Harrassowitz, Berlin 2007 ISBN 978-3-447-05601-4
  • On Results of the Reform in Ethiopia's Language and Education Policies (Asian and African Studies at the Humboldt University of Berlin, Volume 32), Harrassowitz 2009 ISBN 978-3-447-05884-1

Web links

Single receipts

  1. ↑ Catherine Griefenow-Mewis (Catherine Mewis) - Rostock (first EOS Ernst Thalmann). Retrieved July 27, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Ulrich van der Heyden: The African Studies in the GDR: An academic discipline between exoticism and example. An investigation into the history of science . Lit, Hamburg 1999, ISBN 978-3-8258-4371-7 .
  3. ^ Josephine Evens: The image cultivation of the culture and information centers of the GDR abroad until international recognition 1972/73 | bpb. Retrieved July 27, 2020 .
  4. ↑ GDR RECOGNITION: Open Hand - DER SPIEGEL 29/1969. Retrieved July 27, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Flora Veit-Wild: The Arduous Success-Story of a 'Non-discipline' . In: Gordon Collier, Frank Schulze-Engler (eds.): Crabtracks: Progress and Process in Teaching the New Literatures in English: Essays in Honor of Dieter Riemenschneider . Rodopi, 2002, ISBN 978-90-420-1549-4 , pp. 21st ff . ( google.de [accessed on July 27, 2020]).
  6. ^ A Grammatical Sketch of Written Oromo. 2001, accessed July 27, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Griefenow-Mewis, Catherine
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mewis, Catherine; Haacke, Catherine; Mewis-El Solami, Catherine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Africanist
DATE OF BIRTH February 10, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Stockholm