Elfriede Moser-Rath

Elfriede Moser-Rath (born February 3, 1926 in Vienna , † 1993 in Unterhaching ) was an Austrian folklorist and storyteller .

She did her doctorate in Vienna in 1949 with the thesis Studies on Source Studies and Motifs of Upper Styrian Folk Tales from the Pramberger Collection .

In 1955 she married Hans Moser, the head of the Bavarian State Office for Folklore in Munich , and left Vienna, where she had received her first job at the Austrian Museum of Folklore. In 1969 she went to Göttingen as an assistant , where she worked on the editorial team of the Encyclopedia of Fairy Tales. In 1982 she became a professor of folklore.

The scholar was one of the outstanding representatives of historical narrative research, which has presented pioneering source works, particularly in the field of baroque Catholic sermon literature . In addition, she also researched the literature of the early modern period.

Works (selection)

• Sermon fairy tales of the baroque period. Examples, sagas, fables and fables in spiritual sources in Upper Germany . Edited by Elfriede Moser-Rath. Berlin [u. a.] 1964.
• "Funny company". Swank and wit of the 17th and 18th centuries 18th century in culture and socio-historical context . Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-476-00553-4 .
• Read the riot act to the church people. Everyday life in the mirror of southern German baroque sermons . Stuttgart 1991, ISBN 3-476-00740-5 .
• Small writings on popular baroque literature . Edited by Ulrich Marzolph et al., Göttingen 1994, ISBN 3-509-01651-3 .

literature

• Rolf Wilhelm Brednich: On the 65th birthday of Elfriede Moser-Rath . In: Fabula 32 (1991), pp. 1-3.
• Rudolf Schenda in: Bayerisches Jahrbuch für Volkskunde 1991, pp. 147–149 (not viewed).
• Ingrid Tomkowiak : Elfriede Moser-Rath (1926–1993) . In: Fabula 35 (1994), pp. 125-127.
• Ingrid Tomkowiak: Moser-Rath, Elfriede . In: Encyclopedia of Fairy Tales . Vol. 9.2. (1998), col. 939-943 (not accessed).
• Ingrid Tomkowiak:  Moser-Rath, Elfriede. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 18, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-428-00199-0 , p. 184 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Ingrid Tomkowiak: Moser-Rath, Elfriede. In: Brigitta Keintzel, Ilse Korotin (ed.): Scientists in and from Austria. Life - work - work. Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2002, ISBN 3-205-99467-1 , pp. 519-522.

Web links

• Literature by and about Elfriede Moser-Rath in the catalog of the German National Library