Dietz-Rüdiger Moser

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Dietz-Rüdiger Moser (born March 22, 1939 in Berlin ; † May 23, 2010 in Munich ) was a German folklorist , literary historian and musicologist .

Life

His parents were the musicologist Hans Joachim Moser and Hanna geb. Walch (1910-2004), a great-granddaughter of Clara and Robert Schumann . The opera singer Wolf-Hildebrand Moser (* 1943) is his brother, the opera singer Edda Moser his half-sister.

Dietz-Rüdiger Moser initially studied musicology, German studies , Middle Latin philology , art history and folklore at the universities of Berlin , Kiel , Saarbrücken and Göttingen , where he received his doctorate in musicology in 1967 as a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation . He then became a research assistant at the Institute for East German Folklore in Freiburg im Breisgau . In 1978 he completed his habilitation in folklore at the local university and then taught there as a Heisenberg fellow of the German Research Foundation as well as at the Free University of Berlin and the universities of Heidelberg and Münster until he became professor for folklore at the Freiburg University in 1981 .

From 1984 to 2004 he held a chair for Bavarian literary history at the University of Munich and earned a high academic reputation for his research on Catholic life and customs as well as literature in Bavaria.

Between 1984 and 1985 Moser was director of the Institute for German Philology , from 1985 to 1999 of the Institute for Bavarian Literary History , and then with the chair for Bavarian Cultural History he was a member of the Institute for Bavarian History at Munich University. Moser was the founder and editor-in-chief of the magazine Literatur in Bayern . His research focus was on Christian denomination , narrative research , folk song and custom research as well as literary folklore.

Prizes and awards

Publications (selection)

  • Music history of the city of Quedlinburg. From the Reformation to the dissolution of the monastery (1539–1802). Contributions to a music history of the Harz region. Göttingen 1968, (Göttingen, University, dissertation, January 12, 1968, typewritten).
  • Lazarus Strohmanus Jülich. A Christian folk custom for the doctrine of the "satisfactio vicaria". City of Jülich, Jülich 1975, (several editions).
  • The Tannhauser legend. A study on the intentionality and reception of catechetical folk tales on the sacrament of penance (= Fabula . Supplement series B: Investigations. Vol. 4). de Gruyter Berlin et al. 1977, ISBN 3-11-005957-6 .
  • Annunciation through popular song. Studies of song propaganda and catechesis of the Counter Reformation. E. Schmidt, Berlin 1981, ISBN 3-503-01648-1 (At the same time: Freiburg (Breisgau), University, habilitation paper, 1978).
  • Fastnacht - Mardi Gras - Carnival. The festival of the "upside-down world". Edition Kaleidoskop from Verlag Styria, Graz et al. 1986, ISBN 3-222-11595-8 .
  • Masquerades on sledges. Student carnival sleigh rides in the Age of Enlightenment. Süddeutscher Verlag, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-7991-6433-2 .
  • Customs and festivals in the Christian year. Customs of the present in cultural-historical contexts . Edition Kaleidoskop from Verlag Styria, Graz et al. 1993, ISBN 3-222-12069-2 .
  • as editor: Max and Moritz were Bavarians. Wilhelm Busch during his time in Munich. (Accompanying volume to the exhibition “Max and Moritz were Bavaria, Wilhelm Busch in his time in Munich” of the Institute for Bavarian Literature History at the University of Munich. From July 25 to September 10, 2000 in the rooms of the “Allotria” in the Künstlerhaus on Lenbachplatz). Institute for Bavarian Literature History at the University of Munich, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-9804213-9-2 .
  • Customs and festivals throughout the year. Customs of the present in cultural-historical contexts. Herder, Freiburg (Breisgau) et al. 2002, ISBN 3-451-27367-5 .
  • as editor with Carolin Raffelsbauer: Respected & ostracized. Bavarian folk heroes in cultural-historical sketches. Edition Buntehunde, Regensburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-934941-29-8 .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dagmar Droysen-ReberMoser, Hans Joachim. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 18, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-428-00199-0 , pp. 191-193 ( digitized version ).