Elisabeth Krämer-Bannow
Elisabeth Krämer-Bannow (born September 29, 1874 in Wismar , † January 9, 1945 in Schorndorf near Stuttgart) was one of the first western women to explore the islands of the Pacific. She dealt with ethnographic studies and supported her husband Augustin Krämer in his scientific work as well as with her own research results.
Life
Elisabeth Bannow grew up in a middle-class family of pharmacists in Berlin . In 1904, at the age of almost 30, currently at an "advanced age", she married the folklorist Augustin Krämer. She had previously spent several months in Sri Lanka .
She accompanied her husband on three of his expeditions in the German colonial areas of the Pacific: in 1906/07 through the Bismarck Archipelago to the Palau Islands, in 1908 to New Ireland (contemporary Neumecklenburg ) and in 1909/10 as a member of the Hamburg expedition to the South Seas , which her Man headed to the Carolines . She was the only female member on all three trips. Krämer-Bannow works, often under difficult conditions, as a painter and photographer. The couple later used their work in their publications. Their observations on women's lives contributed significantly to the research and would have been difficult for male researchers to obtain.
In 1916 Elisabeth published the travel report "With art-loving cannibals in the South Seas - walks on New Mecklenburg". An English translation was published in Australia in 2007. Watercolors that were unpublished at the time are kept in the ethnology collection of the University of Tübingen.
Fonts
- Homeland security in German colonies! . Flyer on the culture of expression [of the Dürerbund [es] No. 117, Callwey, Munich 1913 (10 pages)
- Art-loving cannibals in the South Seas. Wanderings on Neu-Mecklenburg 1908-1909 , Reimer, Berlin 1916. English: Among Art-Loving Cannibals of the South Seas , translated by Waltraud Schmidt, Adelaide 2007
Individual evidence
- ↑ Irene Ziehe, Ulrich Hägele: Photographs of Everyday Life - Photography as Everyday Life . Lit Verlag, Münster 2004, ISBN 3-8258-7159-2 , p. 122. Detlef Schmidt: From Wismar to the South Seas. Elisabeth Krämer-Bannow provided her husband Augustin Krämer with valuable input in the Völkerkunde , Ostsee-Zeitung, January 9, 2017, online , requested on January 3, 2020
- ↑ Mandy Thijssen-Etpison, Constanze Dupont, Palau in Europe , Palau 2017, p. 20 f.
- ↑ Südseebilder 1890-1910 , exhibition 2002, online , requested on January 3, 2020
literature
- Bettina Beer : Women in German-speaking Ethnology. Ein Handbuch , Böhlau, Cologne et al. 2007, ISBN 978-3-412-11206-6 , pp. 127-130
- Anna Pytlik: Dreams in the Tropical Light. Researchers on the move. Elisabeth Krämer-Bannow in Oceania 1906–1910, Marie Pauline Thorbecke in Cameroon 1911–1913 , Coyote, Reutlingen 1997, ISBN 3-9805702-0-7 .
- Livia Loosen: German women in the South Pacific colonies of the German Empire, everyday life and relationships with the indigenous population, 1884-1919 , transcript, Bielefeld 2014, ISBN 978-3-8376-2836-4 (Dissertation University of Erfurt 2014, Histoire , Volume 69)
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kramer-Bannow, Elisabeth |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German ethnologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 29, 1874 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wismar |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 9, 1945 |
| Place of death | Schorndorf |