Gisela Welz

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Gisela Welz (born January 4, 1960 in Minden ) has been a professor since 1998 and executive director of the Institute for Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main since 2010 .

In 1984 Gisela Welz completed her studies in cultural anthropology and European ethnology, historical ethnology and American studies at the University of Frankfurt with a Magister Artium .

She was best known for her ethnographic study Streetlife. Everyday life in a New York slum , which is also her dissertation . For this cultural anthropological study of the living environment in Bushwick , a district of Brooklyn , she spent the summer of 1985 as a participant observer among the residents of a socially disadvantaged block. From 1989 to 1996 she was a research assistant at the Ludwig Uhland Institute for Empirical Cultural Studies at the University of Tübingen , where she qualified as a professor in 1996 in Empirical Cultural Studies . In 1990 it was at Ina-Maria Greverus a city ethnographic study of a New York slum section doctorate .

Gisela Welz was married to the social anthropologist Stefan Beck .

Fonts

  • Spaces for the local public. The revitalization of historical centers. Institute for Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology, Frankfurt am Main 1986, ISBN 3-923992-20-3 .
  • Street life. Everyday life in a New York slum. Dissertation. University of Frankfurt am Main 1990. Institute for Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology, Frankfurt am Main 1991, ISBN 3-923992-34-3 .
  • Staging of cultural diversity. Academy, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-05-002909-9 .
  • with Annina Lottermann (Ed.): Projects of Europeanization (= cultural anthropology notes. Volume 78). Institute for Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology, Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-923992-80-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Prof. Dr. Stefan Beck. In: Institute for European Ethnology at the Humboldt University in Berlin. Archived from the original on April 3, 2020 ; accessed on April 3, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Obituaries of Stefan Beck | Tagesspiegel mourning. April 12, 2015, archived from the original on April 3, 2020 ; accessed on April 3, 2020 (German).
  3. ↑ Prof. Dr. Gisela Welz. In: Institute for Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology at the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main. Archived from the original on April 3, 2020 ; accessed on April 3, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Welz, Gisela
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cultural anthropologist and folklorist
DATE OF BIRTH 4th January 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Minden