Gisela Völger

Gisela Völger (born April 28, 1937 ) is a German ethnologist and former museum director.

Völger studied ethnology, prehistory and physical anthropology in Frankfurt, Heidelberg and Mainz. She did her doctorate in Mainz with a reconstruction of the lost Tasmanian people . She headed the Cologne Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum für Völkerkunde from 1979 to 2000. Her exhibitions focused on the concept of cultural comparison with great success. The 1981 exhibition on global drug use made them particularly popular. She is an honorary professor at the University of Cologne.

She also wrote a travel guide for Mallorca .

Fonts

• The Tasmanians. Attempt of an ethnographic-historical reconstruction, Wiesbaden 1972 [= Dissertation Mainz 1971]
• Market in the Sahel , German Leather Museum Offenbach, 1979
• with Karin von Welck (ed.): Intoxication and Reality - Drugs in a Cultural Comparison. Handbook of the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum für Völkerkunde for the exhibition of the same name. Cologne 1981, ISBN 3-923158-00-9 (also 3 volumes, Rowohlt, Hamburg 1982, ISBN 3-499-34006-2 )
• as Ed .: The bride: loved, sold, exchanged, stolen. On the role of women in a cultural comparison (= Ethnologica. New series. Volume 11, part 1–2.) 2 volumes. Cologne 1984, ISBN 978-3923158317 .
• with Karin von Welck (Ed.): Männerbande, Männerbünde: on the role of men in comparing cultures , Cologne 1990 ISBN 978-3-923158-19-5
• Mallorca. Proper travel. DuMont, Cologne 1996, ISBN 3-7701-2991-1 (with biographical information)
• as Ed .: You and He. Female power and male rule in a cultural comparison , catalog, Cologne 1997 ISBN 978-3923158331
• Art of the world in the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum Cologne , Prestel, Munich 1999 ISBN 978-3791321790
• with Cornelia Mallebrein (Ed.): The other gods. Folk and tribal bronzes from India, Cologne 1999 ISBN 978-3894660765
• with Gabriele Teichmann (Ed.): Fascination Orient. Max von Oppenheim , researcher, collector, diplomat . DuMont, Cologne 2003, ISBN 978-3832158491
• The Humboldt Forum and Ethnology: A conversation between Karl-Heinz Kohl , Fritz Kramer, Johann Michael Möller, Gereon Sievernich, Gisela Völger (Der ethnologische Blick), Frankfurt am Main 2019 ISBN 978-3-945340-07-3