Friedrich Sieber (folklorist)

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Friedrich Sieber (born August 13, 1893 in Friedersdorf (Spree) ; † March 21, 1973 in Eberswalde ) was a German educator and folklorist .

Live and act

He studied German and modern languages ​​and devoted himself to linguistic folk tradition. In particular , he remained very attached to the legends of his closer homeland (which also includes the West Slavic tribes of the Wends and Sorbs ), which he collected and published in several editions. He was first a teacher in Löbau and after the Second World War he headed the Institute for German Folklore in Dresden (from 1954 attached to the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin ), where he did research on Montan ethnography , the folklore of mining .

Works

  • Wendish sagas . In: German people . No. 4 . Eugen Diederichs, Jena 1925.
  • Saxon legends. From Wittenberg to Leitmeritz . With 12 plates and 53 illustrations in the text. In: German saga treasure . Eugen Diederichs, Jena 1926.
  • Harzland legends . In: Stammekunde des Harzland / Deutscher Sagenschatz . Eugen Diederichs, Jena 1928.
  • Working group of teachers in the Löbau i. Sa. (Ed.): Lusatian sagas. History and belief in spirits . East Saxony printing house, Löbau 1930.
  • Natural legends of the Saxon Upper Lusatia and its neighboring areas . In: The book of Upper Lusatia . tape 3 . East Saxony printing house, Löbau 1931.
  • German Schwänke - Selected and told by Friedrich Sieber . With a colored picture and numerous drawings. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle / S. 1953.
  • Colorful furniture from Upper Lusatia . In: Publications of the Institute for German Folklore . tape 6 . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1955.
  • with Karl-Ewald Fritzsch : Mining costumes of the 18th century in the Ore Mountains and in the Mansfeld region . In: Publications of the Institute for German Folklore . tape 12 . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1957 (Contents: 1. The resolutions of 1709 and the general smelting administration of 1710 as regulators of mining life. 2. Pictures from the life of the mountain people. 3. Mining costume in its own life. 4. The elevator costume of 1719. 5 The parade costume of 1768. 6. Statements on the costume. […]).
  • From the life of a mountain singer . Georg Kempfe, Freiberg / Sa. (around 1652–1728) (=  Small contributions to folk art research . No. 6 ). Friedrich Hofmeister, Leipzig 1958.
  • People and folk motifs in the Baroque festival: depicted on Dresden image sources . with 29 illustrations in the text and 112 plates. In: Publications of the Institute for German Folklore . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1960.
  • Two miner's battle songs from the first quarter of the 18th century. (=  Small contributions to folk art research . No. 4 ). Friedrich Hofmeister, Leipzig 1956.
  • In collaboration with Siegfried Kube: German-West Slavic relations in spring customs - Todaustragen and dealing with the "Summer" (=  publications of the Institute of German folklore . No. 45 ). Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1968.

literature

  • Institute for Saxon History and Folklore eV (Dresden), Sieber estate: Ingeborg Weber-Kellermann: Friedrich Sieber , masch. Ms., 1973
  • Festschrift for Friedrich Sieber. Lětopis . Annual journal of the Institute for Sorbian Folk Research. Row C 6/7 (1963/64)
  • Bernd Schöne : Friedrich Sieber. To re-establish Saxon folklore after the Second World War. In: Zur Geschichte der Volkskunde, Dresden, 2002, pp. 257–276.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Saxon theorbs. In: studia-instrumentorum.de. Retrieved December 6, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Sieber, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educator and folklorist
DATE OF BIRTH August 13, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Friedersdorf (Spree)
DATE OF DEATH March 21, 1973
Place of death Dresden