Friederike Prodinger

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Friederike Prodinger (born Pühringer ; born May 30, 1913 in Salzburg ; † July 31, 2008 there ) was an Austrian folklorist and director of the Salzburg Museum .

Childhood and youth

Friederike Gabriela Prodinger was born as the third daughter of the hat dealer Josef Pühringer and his wife Franziska in Salzburg. In the school year 1924/25 she began her high school education with the Ursulines , but in 1938/29 she was the first girl to switch to the Bundesrealgymnasium and was able to acquire full university entrance qualifications . After graduating from high school , she studied art history, philosophy and geography for one semester at the University of Vienna , then moved to the University of Graz , where she studied folklore and history. Here it was based on Otto Maull , who represented an ethnocentric geopolitics; she completed her studies with him on March 3, 1939 with a dissertation on the subject of "cultural geographic profile through Salzburg".

Professional activity during the Nazi era

Austria had been under National Socialist rule since the Anschluss in 1938. Prodinger had been a member of the NSDAP since 1938. After completing her studies, she got a position at the "Teaching and Research Center for Germanic-German Folklore", which was assigned to the German Ahnenerbe Research Foundation under the direction of Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler . Here she became Richard Wolfram's assistant ; she dealt with surveys of annual customs and house and hallway research, etc. a. among the resettled South Tyroleans and the beech forest Germans in Romania. In 1939 she became the managing director of the “Ahnenerbe Institute” in Salzburg. From 1940 she also volunteered for the SMCA (Salzburg Museum Carolino Augusteum). Here she continued the work of Karl Adrian , who had dealt with Salzburg's peculiarities in costumes, customs and traditions and the “Old Salzburg Farming Museum” (today the Salzburg Folklore Museum in the so-called Monthly Castle ). From October 15, 1943, she was posted as a temporary worker at SCAM, but continued to perform her managerial work at the "Ahnenerbe". In autumn 1943 she became secretary of the Salzburg Museum Association. From this time contacts resulted that continued in 1945, for example with Tobi Reiser , the Gau administrative council and later head of the Salzburg Heimatpflege Kuno Brandauer or the volunteer helper and prehistorian Martin Hell . In the country, she gave numerous lectures to the Nazi women and the Hitler Youth on folklore and customs. In 1942 she began working on a "Gauatlas", which Egon Lendl published in 1955 as the "Salzburg Atlas".

Towards the end of the war, faced with the threat of air raids on Salzburg, she managed the relocation of museum items to various salvage locations (including Lichtenberg Castle near Saalfelden, Blühnbach Castle ). However, it was not completely cleared, so that after the bombing of October 16, 1944, around a third of the museum's holdings were lost.

Further life

On June 29, 1945 she had to retire from museum service because of her work during the Nazi regime. Allegedly she was forcibly used for cleanup work. In 1947 she was taken up again into an employment relationship with the city of Salzburg, whereby her services to the rescue of museum holdings played a role.

On July 23, 1952, Prodinger was able to open the new folklore show in the monthly castle, in 1954 she was appointed correspondent of the Federal Monuments Office for folklore agendas. From 1953 to 1990 she was the scientific director of the working group for home collections. As a result, she designed a large number of museum and non-museum exhibitions, developed exhibition catalogs, wrote reviews and around 300 smaller publications. On September 29, 1969 she was appointed "Director of the SMAC" and remained in this position until December 31, 1978.

Essential achievements under her aegis were the acquisition of the Folk toy collection in 1972 and the opening of the toy museum in 1978, then the conclusion of the lease on the site on which the Salzburg open-air museum was founded on December 21, 1978 . In 1974 the Salzburg Cathedral Excavation Museum was built under the Cathedral Square.

Private life

On October 26, 1939, she married her childhood friend, the lawyer Eberhard Otto Prodinger (* 1910). This was drafted in 1940 and from 1942 was considered missing in Russia. The only child out of the marriage was their daughter Irmtraud (* 1940).

Honors

Works

  • Kurt Conrad; Josef Friedl; Ernestine Hutter; Friederike Prodinger; Friederike Zaisberger; Helmut Adler; Horst Kirchtag: Kniepaß writings. Old farms in the lower Saalachtal. Local history journal of the museum association, 1994.
  • Friederike Prodinger; Reinhard Heinisch: Robe and Stand. Costume and traditional costumes from the Kuenburg collection. Residenz Verlag , Salzburg 1992. ISBN 978-3701703388 .
  • Friederike Prodinger (editor) and Kurt Conrad (collaborator): Castles in Salzburg, on the occasion of the 900th anniversary of the Hohensalzburg Fortress, June 4 - October 30, 1977. Verlag Salzburger Museum Carolino Augusteum, Salzburg, 1977.
  • Friederike Prodinger: Gothic furniture from Salzburg. Late Gothic in Salzburg. Sculpture and applied arts. 1400-1530. Annuals of the SMCA , 1976, pp. 174-175.
  • Dammert, Udo; Schroll, Armin; Prodinger, Friederike: painting behind glass. Catalog. Salzburg Museum Carolino Augusteum, Salzburg, 1971.
  • Friederike Prodinger: Salzburg folk culture. SCMA series of publications, Volume 4, Salzburg 1963.
  • Prodinger, Friederike: Contributions to Perchten research. Communications of the Society for Salzburg Regional Studies, Volume, 100, 1960, pp. 545-563.
  • Friederike Prodinger: Karl Adrian †. Communications from the Society for Salzburg Regional Studies, Volume 90, 1950, pp. 174–182.
  • Otto Swoboda: Living customs. With an introduction by Friederike Prodinger. Residenz-Verlag, Salzburg, 1970.

literature

  • Susanne Brandner, Irmtraut Froschauer & Ulrike Kammerhofer-Aggermann (eds.): Tracht. Handed down - worn - modernized. A bibliography on Salzburg dress and costume. Festschrift for Friederike Prodinger on her 75th birthday. Salzburg Contributions to Folklore, Volume 3 (edited by the Salzburg State Institute for Folklore). Salzburg 1988.
  • Michael Josef Greger & Ulrike Kammerhofer-Aggermann: Friederike Prodinger (1913–2008) and the Salzburg Museum. In: Anschluss, War & Rubble. Salzburg and its museum under National Socialism. Salzburg Museum, Salzburg 2018 (= annual publication of the Salzburg Museum, vol. 60), pp. 217–229.
  • Adolf Haslinger & Peter Mittermayer (eds.): Prodinger, Friederike. In Salzburger Kulturlexikon. Residenz Verlag, Salzburg, 2001, p. 407. ISBN 3-7017-1129-1 .
  • Erich Marx & Peter Husty: From the gallery of the museum directors. The portrait of the director SR Dr. Friederike Prodinger. The work of art of the month, Salzburg Museum Blatt 249, January 2009.

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personal data
SURNAME Prodinger, Friederike
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pühringer, Friederike (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian folklorist and director of the Salzburg Museum
DATE OF BIRTH May 30, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Salzburg
DATE OF DEATH July 31, 2008
Place of death Salzburg