Georg R. Schroubek

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Georg R. Schroubek (born July 11, 1922 in Prague , † April 6, 2008 in Lindau (Lake Constance) ) was a German folklorist .

Life

Schroubek grew up in Prague and graduated from high school there in 1940. After serving as a soldier and being imprisoned by the Soviets, he completed an apprenticeship as a bookseller in Munich and worked as a journalist. In 1950 he founded the “ Prager Nachrichten ”, which still exists today . In 1963 he took over an assistant position at the newly founded Institute for German and Comparative Folklore at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , received his doctorate in 1967 in the subject of folklore on the religious phenomenon "pilgrimage and loss of home" and worked until his retirement in 1984 as a research assistant to Leopold Kretzenbacher . As a university lecturer, he dealt mainly with research on popular piety and national prejudices in the region of eastern Central Europe.

He was married to Barbara Schroubek, b. Brendler (1919–2009), editor and poet.

Foundation "Special Fund Eastern Europe"

In 2007 Schroubek and his wife set up the “Eastern Europe Special Fund - Explorations and Approaches”. Its aim is "to promote the occupation with the peoples and cultures of Eastern Europe and in particular to expand knowledge about the cultural relationships between this region and the German-speaking area". The special fund awards an annual prize for this, which is awarded in the categories of young talent, dissertation and publication prizes.

The previous winners are:

  • 2009 (dissertation award): Dr. Marketa Spiritova for her dissertation Everyday Life on the Edge of Dissent: Strategies for Coping with Everyday Life of Czech Intellectuals at the Time of 'Normalization' (1968-1989) .

Laudator on April 24, 2009 was Dr. Oldřich Tůma, Director of the Institute of Contemporary History at the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic in Prague.

  • 2010 (Young Talent Award): Sylvia Matzke for her master's thesis on art history: Staging the Body in Polish Photography in the 1990s .

Fonts

  • Bibliography of the German language literature published since the end of the war. Munich 1950.
  • Pilgrimage and loss of home. A contribution to contemporary religious folklore. Marburg 1968.
  • Regional cultural analysis. Minutes of a scientific workshop of the German Society for Folklore from 8th - 11th October 1978 in Munich. (Ed. Together with Helge Gerndt). Munich 1979.
  • Studies in Bohemian Folklore (Ed. And incorporated by Petr Lozoviuk). Muenster; New York, NY; Munich; Berlin 2008.

literature

  • Helge Gerndt : … to help correct national prejudices. For Georg R. Schroubek's 70th birthday. In: Bavarian Yearbook for Folklore. Munich 1992.
  • Helge Gerndt , Ed .: Concepts of stereotypes in everyday life: Contributions to the topic of external images - self-images - identity ; Festschrift for Georg R. Schroubek on his 65th birthday / Munich Association for Folklore. Munich 1988.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cf. for example Georg R. Schroubek: On the transmission and diffusion of a European concept of superstition. In: Rainer Erb , Michael Schmidt (ed.): Anti-Semitism and Jewish history. Studies in honor of Herbert A. Strauss . Wissenschaftlicher Autorverlag , Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-88840-248-4 , pp. 17-24.
  2. ↑ Cf. for example Georg R. Schroubek: The "Ritualmord" von Polná - Traditional and modern delusional belief. In: Rainer Erb, Michael Schmidt (ed.): Anti-Semitism and Jewish history. Studies in honor of Herbert A. Strauss . Wissenschaftlicher Autorverlag , Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-88840-248-4 , pp. 149-171.
  3. ↑ site to George R. Price Schroubek by the Department of Ethnology at LMU Munich
  4. ^ "Award for young scientist from the University of Regensburg" press release of the University of Regensburg from May 12, 2009
  5. ^ Marburg art historian honored News from the University of Marburg (June 1, 2010)
personal data
SURNAME Schroubek, Georg R.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech folklorist
DATE OF BIRTH July 11, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague
DATE OF DEATH April 6, 2008
Place of death Lindau (Lake Constance)