Edmund Mudrak

Edmund Mudrak (born October 27, 1894 in Vienna ; †  December 12, 1965 there ) was an Austrian folklorist .

Life

Mudrak studied German , Oriental and Prehistory and did his doctorate on the Wielands saga at the University of Vienna under Georg Hüsing. Mudrak was an active member of the Vienna Folklore Society . Mudrak belonged to the Viennese "Mythological School" based on Leopold von Schroeder .

On November 25, 1930, Mudrak registered the German Education Society responsible for the German Education course in Vienna as an association and still provided official information on the association's assets when the society was dissolved in 1947. Together with Karl von Spieß he published the volume German Folklore as Political Science in 1938 . The title of his contribution was "The tasks of folklore as a living science". In it, Mudrak postulates racial studies as a basic science to which folklore has to orient itself. In 1939 Mudrak published the collection of German fairy tales - German World together with Karl von Spieß , followed by the selection of fairy tales Hausbuch deutscher Märchen in 1944 .

From 1939 to 1943 Mudrak worked in the Department of Culture of the City of Vienna as head of the Folklore Research Department. In addition, Mudrak was the head of the Reich Office for Germanic Folklore in the Office of Folklore and Ceremonies at the Rosenberg Office , lecturer of the party official examination commission for the protection of Nazi literature , lecturer of the main office of literature maintenance in the Rosenberg office and expert for the Reich administration of the Nazi teachers' association . Together with von Spieß, Mudrak was temporarily head of the non-university research center for mythology at the Institute for German Folklore, which was founded on June 5, 1942 and which was connected to the Rosenberg High School . In 1943 the professorship for folklore at the University of Posen, which was in the service of National Socialist ideology , was filled with Edmund Mudrak, who was preferred to his greatest competitor Richard Wolfram.

After the end of the war, Mudrak's professorship in Poznan became invalid. From 1951 he worked as a teacher at the Academic Gymnasium Vienna . He was a consultant to the Old Catholic Church in Vienna and from 1955 until his death in 1965 he was together with Karl Tekusch, deputy chairman of the Vienna Association of Mother Tongue , where he gave numerous lectures and published them in the association's magazine. Mudrak also continued to publish after the end of the war. His Teutonic Legends have been published in the 23rd edition since 2003, his Nordic gods and heroic sagas since 2009 in the 29th edition, and his German heroic sagas since 2009 in the 36th edition.

Until his death in 1965, Mudrak published a total of 148 titles, including numerous fairy tales, sagas and books for young people, but also publications in magazines such as Rasse. Monthly journal of the Nordic movement , the Deutsche Volkskunde published by Matthes Ziegler - quarterly of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Deutsche Volkskunde and the National Socialist monthly magazines .

Publications (selection)

• Mudrak, Edmund (1938). "The tasks of folklore as a living science". In: Spieß, Karl von & Mudrak, Edmund. German Folklore as Political Science. Two essays with a complete list of publishers for 1923-1938 as an appendix . Berlin: Stubenrauch. Pp. 3-11.
• Mudrak, Edmund (eds.) (2003). Legends of the Teutons . 23rd edition. Eningen: Ensslin.
• Mudrak, Edmund (eds.) (2009a). German heroic sagas . 36th edition. Hamburg: Nikol.
• Mudrak, Edmund (eds.) (2009b). Nordic sagas of gods and heroes . 28th edition. Hamburg: Nikol.
• Mudrak, Edmund (1943). "Saying the technology". Hegel & Schade.
• Mudrak, Edmund & Spieß, Karl von & Sladky, Herta (eds.) (1944). House book of German fairy tales . Berlin: Stubenrauh.

literature

• Bockhorn, Olaf (1994). "About rituals, myths and circles of life: Folklore around the University of Vienna". In: Jacobeit, Wolfgang & Lixfeld, Hannjost (eds.). Folk Science. Forms and tendencies of German and Austrian folklore in the first half of the 20th century. Vienna / Cologne / Weimar: Böhlau. Pp. 477-526.
• Mehl, Erwin (1966) “To our second chairman, Univ.-Prof. i. R. Dr. Edmund Mudrak, in memory ”. Obituary. In: Wiener Sprachblätter 16/1. P. 1.
• Pfalzgraf, Falco (2016). "Karl von Spieß, with an excursus on Edmund Mudrak". In: Pfalzgraf, Falco. Karl Tekusch as a language tutor. His role in Viennese language associations in the 20th century . Bremen: Hempen. (Greifswald Contributions to Linguistics 10.) pp. 44–47.
• Popa, Klaus (2010). "Mudrak Edmund (1894-1965)". In: Popa, Klaus (ed.). Völkisches Handbuch Südosteuropa . Pp. 67-68.

Web links

• Literature by and about Edmund Mudrak in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ The Oxford Encyclopedia of Children's Literature, Jack Zipes, 2006, see entry on Edmund Mudrak.
2. ^ Witches and Teutons: The Interest of National Socialism in the History of the Witch Persecution , Katarzyna Leszczynska, transcript Verlag, 2009, ISBN 9783837611694 , p. 265.