Fritz W. Kramer

Fritz W. Kramer (born October 19, 1941 in Bad Salzuflen ) is a German ethnologist .

Kramer studied ethnology, sociology and German at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and the Ruprecht Karls University Heidelberg and was a research assistant in Heidelberg from 1969 to 1971. He was a member of the Heidelberg Socialist German Student Union and took part in the disputes between the anti-authoritarian wing and later K-groups after the end of the SDS in November 1970.

life and work

Kramer was promoted to Dr. phil. with a thesis on The literature among the Kuna Indians ( Literature among the Cuna Indians , submitted 1969). First at the University of Heidelberg, Kramer was Professor of Ethnology at the Free University of Berlin from 1979 to 1983 , then he was a freelance journalist from 1983 to 1989 . From 1989 until his retirement in 2007 he taught art theory at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts .

Among other things, Kramer researched the inhabitants of Bikini Atoll and their reaction to nuclear weapons tests in the USA, Sudan, Kenya, India and New Guinea. He received his habilitation in 1977 with a thesis on imaginary ethnography of the 19th century.

Kramer was editor and is now a member of the scientific advisory board of the historical anthropology journal . The publication of a four-volume German-language edition of the main writings by Bronisław Malinowski (1978–1985) is remarkable .

In 2001 the commemorative publication Geist, Bild und Narr was published in his honor .

Fonts

• Literature among the Cuna Indians. Dissertation at the University of Heidelberg in 1969 under the title The literature among the Kuna Indians , DNB 482516186 .
• Edited together with Christian Sigrist : Societies without State. Syndicate, Frankfurt am Main 1978.
  • Vol. 1 Equality and Reciprocity. ISBN 3-8108-0069-4 .
  • Vol. 2 Genealogy and Solidarity. ISBN 3-8108-0079-1 .
• Wrong worlds. On the imaginary ethnography of the 19th century. Syndikat, Frankfurt am Main 1977, ISBN 3-8108-0042-2 (also habilitation thesis at FU Berlin 1977).
• Bikini or the bombing of the angels. Also an ethnography. With contributions by Annegret Bentert et al. Syndikat, Frankfurt am Main 1983, ISBN 3-8108-1205-6 .
• The red fez. About obsession and art in Africa. Athenaeum, Frankfurt am Main 1987, ISBN 3-610-00730-3 ; English translation: The red fez. Verso, London / New York 1993, ISBN 0-86091-465-8 .
• Bikini. Atomic test area in the Pacific. Wagenbach, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-8031-2380-1 .
• Writings on ethnology. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3-518-29288-9 .

literature

• Julian von Eckardt, Jirmi Lehmann, Sarma Marla (eds.): General split - from the student movement to the sects and circles. The complete minutes of a debate, exemplified after the end of the Heidelberg SDS. November 1970. Heidelberg 1972.
• Heike Behrend (Ed.): Geist, Bild and Fool. To an ethnology of cultural conversions. Fritz W. Kramer on his 60th birthday. (Festschrift) Philo, Berlin / Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-8257-0261-8 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Fritz W. Kramer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Fritz Kramer in the Lexicon of Westphalian Authors
• Review of the collection of essays "Writings on Ethnology"

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The foreign and the own. Farewell to Fritz Kramer and an exhibition in his honor in the HFBK gallery. In: Newsletter HFBK , issue 38, May 2007, pp. 1–2. (PDF; 451 kB). Retrieved February 25, 2015.