Christa Agnes Tuczay

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Christa Agnes Tuczay (born February 7, 1952 in Eisenstadt ) is an Austrian ancient Germanist and cultural scientist .

biography

Tuczay graduated from the music-pedagogical secondary school of the Theresianum Eisenstadt . From the summer semester of 1971 she studied German philology and pedagogy , philosophy and psychology , as well as ethnology , Indology and Finno-Ugric studies at the University of Vienna and graduated with a master's degree . She received her doctorate in Vienna in 1981 with a thesis on the fairy tale motif The Unhold ohne Seele. From 1981 to 2006 she worked on the project of the Austrian Academy of Sciences Motive Index of German-language secular narrative literature from the beginnings to 1400. Since 1991 she has been a lecturer and since 2008 lecturer at the Institute for German Studies in Vienna, and was also a visiting professor in Chiang Mai ( Thailand ), Innsbruck and Klagenfurt .

During her studies she started playing keyboard and saxophone in Viennese rock 'n' roll and blues bands. That brought her to the newly founded Kulturzentrum Gassergasse , where she soon became involved as secretary for the association and held this position until the center was closed.

Research priorities

Tuczay's main research interests are narrative research, cultural studies, the history of mentality, the history of magic and the psychological history of the Middle Ages. Even during her studies, she began to be interested in storytelling and fairy tale research and eventually wrote her dissertation on an international fairy tale motif. With her knowledge in this field, she also contributed to the ÖAW project "Motif Index of German-language secular narrative literature from the beginnings to 1400". She also wrote numerous articles in the encyclopedia of fairy tales .

From 1999 Tuczay worked on the anthologies "Myths of the Middle Ages" initiated by Ulrich Müller and Werner Wunderlich and wrote relevant articles. Together with employees of the Motiv-Index, she edited an anthology on Austrian modern sagas.

Since her publication “Magic in the Middle Ages”, Tuczay has also dealt with the special research area of ​​witch research from a mentality and cultural studies perspective, which has emerged since the 1980s. Relevant articles in English and German anthologies followed . The monograph "Cultural History of Medieval Fortune Telling", published in 2012, focused specifically on the area of divinations, which was only briefly outlined in "Magic and Magi in the Middle Ages" .

Tuczay dedicated her habilitation thesis to the ecstasy, perceived as a coveted borderline experience in medieval texts, and thus found connection to shamanistic research in Hungary to the regularly held congresses and publications she contributed to. An experience related to ecstasy, dream and vision, was the focus of her psychohistorical considerations , as was the three-part series on revenants, animal mutations and occultism .

Apart from these main research areas, Tuczay wrote numerous articles on purely Germanistic and medieval topics. In "Herzessern" she also dealt with the crime and mentality history of old Austria.

Publications

  • Ghosts, demons, phantasms - a cultural history. Wiesbaden (Marix) 2015. ISBN 978-3-7374-0972-8
  • Ecstasy in context. Medieval and more recent discourses on an experience of delimitation. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 3-63157-194-1
  • The aventiure-like Dietrichepik: Laurin and Walberan, younger Sigenot, Eckenlied, Wunderer, Middle High German text with New High German translation (GAG 599), Göppingen (Kümmerle Verlag) 1999. ISBN 3-87452-841-3
  • Co-editor and co-author of the anthologies Father Ötzi and the Crocodile in the Danube Canal, Modern Legends from Austria, The Poetic Revenant, Fascination of the Occult and Animal Transformations, Beyond.
  • Ir sult speak welcome. Boundless Medieval Studies, Festschrift for Helmut Birkhan on the occasion of his 60th birthday, ed. v. Ulrike Hirhager, Karin Lichtblau, Christa Agnes Tuczay. Bern (Peter Lang) 1998. ISBN 978-3-906759-24-1
  • Poetic revenants - German-speaking vampirism discourses from the Middle Ages to the present, ed. v. Christa Agnes Tuczay and Julia Bertschik, Tübingen (Francke Verlag) 2004. ISBN 3-77208-080-4
  • Fascination of the occult. Discourses on the supernatural. Ed. V. Christa Agnes Tuczay and Wolfgang Müller-Funk: Tübingen (Francke Verlag) 2008. ISBN 3-77208-259-9
  • Animal transformations. Codings and Discourses. Ed. V. Christa Agnes Tuczay and Willem de Blécourt. Tübingen (Francke Verlag) 2011. ISBN 3-77208-406-0
  • Beyond - A Medieval and Medieval Imagination: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Analyzing the Inexplicable. (= Supplements to Medieval Studies, edited by Peter Dinzelbacher and Romedio Schmitz-Esser, Vol. 21). Frankfurt (Peter Lang) 2015. ISBN 978-3-631-66836-8

A comprehensive list of publications by Christa Tuczay can be found on the homepage of the University of Vienna.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Curriculum vitae Christa Tuczay. University of Vienna, accessed on November 12, 2018 .
  2. ^ Hary Wetterstein, history. 2018, accessed November 17, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Tuczay, C. (1980). The soul outside in the folk tales.
  4. ↑ a b Motif Index of German Secular Narratives. Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, 2018, accessed on October 13, 2018 .
  5. ↑ "The heart of the monster in the egg", in: Enzyklopädie des Märchen, Vol. 6, Berlin 1990, Col. 929-936
  6. ↑ "Man who flew like a bird and swam like a fish (ATh 665)", in: Enzyklopädie des Märchen Vol. 9, Berlin 1999, Col. 215-218.
  7. ↑ "Golem", in: Wunderlich, Werner / Müller, Ulrich (eds.): Myths of the Middle Ages Vol. 2: Demons, Monstren, Fabelwesen, St. Gallen 1999; Pp. 257-267.
  8. ^ "Incubus", in: Wunderlich, Werner / Müller, Ulrich (ed.): Myths of the Middle Ages. Vol. 2: Demons, monsters, mythical creatures, St. Gallen 1999; Pp. 333-343.
  9. ↑ Habiger-Tuczay, C., Hirhager, U., & Lichtblau, K. (1996). Father Ötzi and the crocodile in the Danube Canal: modern Austrian sagas. Vienna: Löcker.
  10. ^ Tuczay, C. (2003). Magic and Magicians in the Middle Ages (revised. New edition.). Munich: Dt Taschenbuch-Verl. ISBN 3-89996-852-2
  11. ↑ Britta Schneider: REVIEW: Magic and Magician in the Middle Ages. Frankfurt Allgemeine Zeitung, November 8, 2003, accessed on November 10, 2018 .
  12. ↑ Golden, RM (2006). Encyclopedia of witchcraft: the western tradition: 1: A - D. Santa Barbara, Calif. [including]: ABC-Clio.
  13. ^ Tuczay, CA (2012). Cultural history of medieval fortune telling. Berlin: de Gruyter. ISBN 3110240408
  14. ^ Tuczay, CA (2009). Ecstasy in Context: Medieval and Newer Discourses on an Experience of Delimitation.
  15. ↑ Tuczay, CA, & Ballhausen, T. (2018). Dream narratives: motif patterns - narrative traditions - cross-media perspectives. Vienna: Praesens Verlag. ISBN 978-3-7069-0998-3
  16. ↑ Blécourt, W. de. (2011). Animal Metamorphoses: Codings and Discourses. Tübingen: Francke.
  17. ↑ West-Eastern practice of asceticism in Barlaam and Josaphat and the Gymnosophist episode. In: Barlaam and Josaphat: New Perspectives on a European Phenomenon. Ed. V. Constanza Cordoni and Matthias Meyer. Berlin 2015, pp. 365–388.
  18. ^ Tuczay, CA (2009). The heart eaters. Demonic crimes in the Danube Monarchy. Seifert Verlag, Vienna 2007. ISBN 3-90240-628-3
personal data
SURNAME Tuczay, Christa Agnes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tuczay, Christa Habiger-; Tuczay, Christa A .; Habiger-Tuczay, Christa
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian old Germanist and cultural scientist
DATE OF BIRTH 7th February 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Eisenstadt