Götz Altmann

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Götz Altmann (born July 8, 1940 in Annaberg ) is a German folklorist .

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Altmann completed an apprenticeship as a radio technician between 1954 and 1957 . After attaining university entrance qualification at an adult education center , he completed his master craftsman training between 1962 and 1964 and then worked as a master craftsman. At the Pedagogical University in Halle / Saale , he studied from 1966 to 1970 Polytechnic as a teacher. As a teacher, he was from 1970 in Senftenberg , before he in 1974 director of the museum Erzgebirgisches iron and tin on Schwarzenberg Palace was. An autodidactic training as well as an external study of folklore at theAltmann graduated from Humboldt University in Berlin in 1985 with a doctorate on the subject of technology and social relationships in the hammer and ironworks in the Ore Mountains from the 12th century to the middle of the 19th century .

Altmann gave up his position as museum director in 1981 to change to the folklore center Erzgebirge / Vogtland of the district cabinet for cultural work in Karl-Marx-Stadt , where he also became deputy head of the facility. From 1988 until his retirement in July 2005, he was head of the Folklore Center, which continued to exist after the reunification as the state office for Ore Mountains and Vogtland folk culture and from October 1997 with expanded responsibilities as the Saxon state office for folk culture . In the GDR he was a member of the district council from 1979 to 1989 and since 1987 chairman of the folklore working group in the Society for Local History for the Karl-Marx-Stadt district within the Kulturbund .

He published numerous essays and books mainly on folklore topics. Altmann was a member of the board of the Landesverein Sächsischer Heimatschutz e. V. For the " great commitment and the extremely sensitive handling of the important monument substance " during the restoration of the Hammerherrenhaus in Erla , he and his family were awarded the Federal Prize for Crafts in Monument Preservation by the German Foundation for Monument Protection in 2006. He lives in Schwarzenberg / Erzgeb.

literature

  • Michael Martischnig: Folklorist in the German Democratic Republic today. (= Communications of the Institute for Contemporary Folklore, special volume 4) Self-published by the Austrian Museum for Folklore, Vienna 1990, pp. 11–13 ISBN 3-900359-46-6
  • Rainer Aurig : Preserving, caring for, documenting, conveying: Joachim Voigtmann and Götz Altmann and the Saxon regional offices for museums and folk culture. In: Sächsische Heimatblätter 51 (2005) 2, pp. 139–143 ISSN  0486-8234

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Michael Martischnig: Volkskundler in the German Democratic Republic today. (= Communications of the Institute for Contemporary Folklore, special volume 4) Self-published by the Austrian Museum for Folklore, Vienna 1990, pp. 11–13 ISBN 3-900359-46-6
  2. ↑ Board of the Landesverein Sächsischer Heimatschutz eV ( Memento from April 13, 2014 in the web archive archive.today )
  3. ↑ Federal Prize for Crafts in Monument Preservation is awarded in Leipzig ( Memento from October 8, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Federal Prize for Crafts in Monument Preservation awarded in Saxony ( Memento from April 28, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Altmann, Götz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German folklorist
DATE OF BIRTH July 8, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Annaberg