Claus Deimel

Claus Deimel (born March 12, 1948 in Hamburg ) is a German ethnologist .

Life

Claus Deimel studied historical ethnology, political science, sociology and prehistory and early history at the universities of Frankfurt am Main and Heidelberg from 1972 to 1979. 1979 was his doctorate to Dr. phil. in Frankfurt with a thesis on the missionary history of the Tarahumara in northern Mexico. He has been researching in the Sierra Tarahumara since 1973 and has contributed monographs, images and film documentations on the economy, society and ecology in the Sierra Tarahumara, including through the medium of exhibitions at the Übersee-Museum Bremen, the Landesmuseum Hannover and the GRASSI Museum für Völkerkunde Leipzig , published. He got teaching assignments at the universities of Hamburg, Hanover and Leipzig.

Claus Deimel has worked with artists and researchers from the Kwakwaka'wakw- First Nation on the northwest coast of Canada on the history of a potlatch collection and the exhibition The Power of Giving , Alert Bay, Canada, U'mista Cultural Society and Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Curated in 2011.

He was a research assistant at the Hamburg Museum of Ethnology (1981–1985), the Übersee-Museum Bremen (1985–1987), the Detlefsen-Museum Glückstadt (1990–1992) and chief curator at the Lower Saxony State Museum Hanover (1992–2000). In 2000 he was appointed director of the Leipzig Völkerkundemuseum (since 2003 GRASSI Museum für Völkerkunde zu Leipzig) and in 2004 founded the State Ethnographic Collections Saxony SES, a merger of the GRASSI Museum für Völkerkunde zu Leipzig with the Museum für Völkerkunde Dresden and the Völkerkundemuseum Herrnhut . In 2010, the SES joined the Dresden State Art Collections Association (SKD) under his leadership. Until he retired in June 2013, Claus Deimel was Deputy Director General of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden.

Works

Exhibitions (selection)

• 1993 gods from Africa . Photographs: Leonore Mau, texts: Hubert Fichte, forum of the Landesmuseum Hannover
• 1996 Colorin Colorado. Large murals of Mexican children, the Maya, Huichol, Rarámuri, Mixe, etc. a. Lower Saxony State Museum Hanover
• 2000 Jaguar and Snake. Indian cosmos in Central and South America . Forum of the Landesmuseum Hannover
• 2011 The Power of Giving . U'mista Cultural Society, Alert Bay, British Columbia, Canada; State Art Collections Dresden (in the Lipsius Building)

Publications (selection)

Deimel has published numerous articles in German and international journals and has written several articles on compilations and commemorative publications

• 1980 Tarahumara. Indians in northern Mexico . Publishing house Syndikat, Frankfurt am Main
• 1980 Les Tarahumaras au présent et au passé . Ed. Fédérop, Lyon
• 1993 gods from Africa . Part 2: Ritual Items . Ethnographic collections in Hanover. Edited by Thomas Michel, Lower Saxony State Museum Hanover
• 1996 Híkuri ba. Peyoterites of the Tarahumara . Views of Ethnology 1, Lower Saxony State Museum Hanover
• 1997 The ritual healing of the Tarahumara. With an introduction to the literature. Monografía Rarámuri I . Völkerkundliche Abhandlungen XIII, Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin
• 2001 Nawésari. Texts from the Sierra Tarahumara. Monografía rarámuri II . Völkerkundliche Abhandlungen XIV, Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin
• 2013 On a path to God in the Sierra Tarahumara. The journey of Johannes Rattkay SJ to northern Mexico and his report on his mission with a description of the Tarahumara nation and its country. 1681-1683 . Treatises and reports of the State Ethnographic Collections of Saxony, Volume 54
• 2017 the museum's new clothes. The rites in the Museum of the People . VWB-Verlag, Berlin

Editions (selection)

• 2004 donations to the residence. Ethnographic treasures from the Electoral-Royal Collections of Dresden . State Ethnographic Collections of Saxony, Museum of Ethnology Dresden
• 2008 works of art of the world. Africa, Australia, Oceania, the Americas . (3 vol.) State Ethnographic Collections of Saxony
• 2009 (with Markus Lenz and Bernhard Streck) In search of diversity. Ethnographers and geographers in Leipzig . Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography, Leipzig
• 2010 (with Wolf-Dietrich Freiherr Speck von Sternburg ) Buddha's splendor and emperor's splendor. The Beijing Collection Hermann Speck von Sternburg . Volumes 1 and 2, Leipzig 2008 and 2010
• 2007–2013 yearbook of the State Ethnographic Collections of Saxony. Vol. 43-46;
• Treatises and reports of the State Ethnographic Collections of Saxony. Vol. 52-54

Broadcast contributions

• 1984 The foot runners. Tarahumaras in northern Mexico . A radio feature with original sound recordings by the author. First broadcast: Südwestfunk Baden-Baden January 28, 1984, director: Peter Michel Ladiges

Films (selection)

• Online since 2007: Claus Deimel - YouTube, Voelkerkundemuseum - YouTube
• 2009 Híkuri ba ba. Autour le feu du Peyotl. Au pays Tarahumara (Mexique) , 25 min
• 2013 The mirror ritual. Life in Tarahumaraland . 65 min (Announcement: Leipziger Volkszeitung Online Archive February 22, 2013; Presentation in Mexico: El ritual del espejo , Casa de Chihuahua, México, January 16, 2014)
• 2014 Judas Fariseo Diablo. About The Devil And The Wild Gaiety. Del demonio y de las ganas de vivir. About the devil and the wild lust for life , 52 min (Odderader Filmtage, July 27, 2014)

Web links

• Publications by Claus Deimel in the catalog of the German National Library
• Interview with Claus Deimel What tasks do ethnographic museums have? , SWR 2, September 15, 2011
• The Power of Giving (2011)

literature

• Jacques Galinier: Deimel Claus, Nawésari. Texts from the Sierra Tarahumara. Monografía rarámuri, II , Reimer, Völkerkundliche Abhandlungen, Volume XIV, Berlin, 2001, 210 p. Journal de la Société des Américanistes, 2002, tome 88, [1]
• Thomas Mayer: The foreign does not exist . Leipziger Volkszeitung, 27./28. October 2012
• Aracely Sánchez Ruiz: Somos más iguales de lo que hemos pensado antes . El Heraldo de Chihuahua, México, January 17th, 2014