Ernst Helmut Segschneider

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Ernst Helmut Segschneider (born March 6, 1938 in Eydtkuhnen in East Prussia ) is a German folklorist and non-fiction author .

Life

Segschneider was born as the youngest child of the superintendent Ernst Segschneider and his wife Gabriele. His father had died before he was born, and his sister died a few days after he was born. He grew up with his mother and three brothers in Eydtkuhnen / Eydtkau, which the family had to leave in the summer of 1944 because of the approaching Red Army . He then lived in Seeburg , where his mother died in October 1944. With the help of relatives, he came to Friedheim in what was then the province of Posen and, after being deported in December 1945, took a detour to Körrenzig , where he finally attended the state high school in Jülich . At times he lived in Dortmund and Linnich . He passed his Abitur in 1958 in Jülich.

Segschneider then studied German, Slavic, history, folklore and art history at the University of Marburg . In 1962 he moved to the University of Bonn , where he received his doctorate in 1969. He then took a position as a museum scientist in the museum village of Cloppenburg .

Segschneider moved to the Osnabrück Cultural History Museum in 1971 , where he also worked as a museum scholar. His main focus was the subject folklore, including the areas of customs, handicrafts and food . In the 1980s he was involved in setting up the pottery museum in Hagen am Teutoburg Forest . In the late 1980s he began researching and writing about the post-war era and the fate of prisoners of war . Eventually he wrote an autobiography about his childhood and youth. He also worked as an editor of non-fiction books and wrote numerous articles and reviews.

Ernst Helmut Segschneider is married and has two sons. The narrative researcher Gottfried Henßen was his second uncle.

Fonts

Books

  • Earthenware from the Osnabrück region: 19th and 20th centuries. Kulturgeschichtliches Museum Osnabrück, Osnabrück 1973. Writings of the Kulturgeschichtliches Museum Osnabrück, issue 5.
  • Festive baked goods throughout the year. Osnabrück: 20th Century Cultural History Museum Osnabrück, Osnabrück 1975.
  • Death wreath and crown in single burial. Based on a documentation of the Atlas of German Folklore. Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne / Bonn 1976 (= Works and Living. Volume 10), ISBN 3-7927-0200-2 .
  • Beekeeping in the Osnabrück region and neighboring areas. Kulturgeschichtliches Museum Osnabrück, Osnabrück 1977. Writings of the Kulturgeschichtliches Museum Osnabrück, volume 3.
  • Beekeeping in north-western Lower Saxony. Schuster, Leer 1978, ISBN 3-7963-0152-5 .
  • Old tiles: folk wall decorations of the 18th and 19th centuries. Exhibition in the "Münchhausen-Scheune" in the museum village of Cloppenburg. Museumsdorf Cloppenburg, Cloppenburg 1981. 2nd, revised edition.
  • The old pottery trade in the Osnabrück region. With a dictionary of the Hagen pottery language. Rasch, Bramsche 1983, ISBN 3-922469-10-8 . Northwest Lower Saxony Regional Research, Volume 4.
  • The pottery. Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe, Münster 1985, ISBN 3-923432-86-0 .
  • Sign of distress: when the steel helmet became a cooking pot. Westfälisches Freilichtmuseum Detmold, Detmold 1989, ISBN 3-926160-06-3 . Writings of the LWL-Freilichtmuseum Detmold, Volume 6.
  • Pöttebackers Pottwerk: Life and work of the Berndsen potters family in Freren-Ostwie / Emsland 1822 to 1914. Emsland landscape, Sögel 2005, ISBN 3-925034-39-0 .
  • "The little red pawnee": A childhood in East Prussia, Posen, Westphalia and the Lower Rhine during the Second World War and the post-war period. Waxmann, Münster / New York / Munich / Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-8309-2420-3 .

Other fonts (selection)

  • Years on the sidelines: memories of captivity. 3. Edition. Kulturgeschichtliches Museum Osnabrück, Osnabrück 2000, ISBN 3-922469-60-4 (as editor and co-author).
  • Carl Ludwig Alpers: his home in Osnabrück in pictures from the 2nd half of the 19th century. Wenner, Osnabrück 1992, ISBN 3-87898-333-6 (as author).
  • The gentle law brought to light. Wilhelm Tiemann's silent pictures of memory. Rasch, Bramsche 1995, ISBN 978-3-930595-12-9 (as author).
  • Life in the shadow of death: Alfred Retzlaff's pictures of a prisoner of war in Russia. Rasch, Bramsche 1996, ISBN 3-930595-35-4 (as editor and co-author). Writings of the Cultural History Museum Osnabrück, issue 7.
  • Hot wake up as a Mardi Gras pastry in the Hanseatic area. In: Günter Wiegelmann, Ruth-E. Mohrmann (Hrsg.): Food and table culture in the Hanseatic area. Waxmann, Münster / New York / Munich / Berlin 1996, ISBN 978-3-89325-430-9 , pp. 429-461.
  • Stories from the chip box: historical tin figures. Rasch, Bramsche 1998, ISBN 3-932147-37-5 (as editor and co-author). Writings of the cultural history museum Osnabrück, issue 8.
  • Captivity in the Caucasus 1946–1950. Waxmann, Münster / New York / Munich / Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-8309-1170-X (as editor and co-author).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Ernst Helmut Segschneider: "The little red pawnee": A childhood in East Prussia, Posen, Westphalia and on the Lower Rhine during the Second World War and the post-war period. Waxmann, Münster / New York / Munich / Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-8309-2420-3 , back of the book.
  2. ↑ Heimatverein Hagen , accessed on February 12, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Segschneider, Ernst Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German folklorist and non-fiction author
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Eydtkuhnen , East Prussia