Gottfried habenicht

Gottfried habenicht (born November 14, 1934 in Timișoara , Kingdom of Romania ) is a German ethnomusicologist and musicologist . He published over 175 works mainly on East German folklore with the main topics: Danube Swabian traditional folk good , traditional German cultural good in Transylvania and the Banat . He is a member of several ethnographic scientific organizations.

Life

After graduating from high school in Timișoara in 1952, Gottfried habenicht began studying (“Folclor muzical”) in Bucharest at the “Conservatorul de muzică C. Porumbescu”, with a focus on ethnomusicology. He graduated in 1957 with the qualification " Professor of Music ". From 1957 he worked in the ethnomusicology department at the "Institutul de etnografie și folclor" in Bucharest, where he was mainly concerned with the monographic representation of folk musical instruments and the lamentations for the dead in north-east Transylvania. As "cercetător științific principal" ("main scientific researcher") he wrote a number of papers and presentations, conducted field research, worked on scientific films and created transcriptions. Due to local customs, his work was usually not published under his own name.

At the end of 1973 he moved to Germany and continued his scientific work in Freiburg im Breisgau at the "Institute for East German Folklore" (later renamed "Johannes Künzig Institute for East German Folklore"). There he played a decisive role in its development and contributed to the expansion and organization of the archives. His activities included the writing of music-ethnological treatises, field research , transcriptions and the publication of annotated editions of authentic audio documents.

In addition to guest lectures and teaching assignments, habenicht worked on several scientific commissions and their working groups, e. B. in the "International Group on Folk Musical Instruments and Study Group on Analysis and Systematization of Folk Music", at the "Institute for Scientific Film" ( Göttingen ), in the "Deutsche Gesellschaft für Volkskunde" u. a. (See: “Membership in Scientific Organizations”.) A number of his essays appeared in the “Yearbook for East German Folklore”. One focus of his work was the bibliographical documentation of folklore in and from Eastern and Southeastern Europe.

In 1988, habenicht took over the deputy and executive management of the Johannes Künzig Institute. He has been in active retirement since 1997. A list of his publications, which appeared until 1994, is printed in the "Yearbook for German and Eastern European Folklore 37.1994" (pp. 337-350). In 2003 he was awarded the “Main Prize of the Danube Swabian Culture Prize of the State of Baden-Württemberg” for his life's work.

Membership in scientific organizations

• German Society for Folklore
• Commission for German and Eastern European Folklore in the DGV
• Commission for Folk Music and Folk Dance in the DGV
• International Council for Traditional Music
• Commission for Research into Folk Musical Instruments in the ICTM (until 1992)
• Commission for Folksong Systematization in the ICTM (until 1995)
• Society for Musicology (until 1995)
• Advisory board member "Folklore Film" at the "Institute for Scientific Film", Göttingen (until 1997)

Publications (excerpt)

A list of the publications that appeared up to 1994 appeared in the "Yearbook for German and Eastern European Folklore 37.1994" (pp. 337-350).

Books

• Songs and song life in a Hauerland village. The informant Anton Köppl from Honneshau: songs - self-testimony - comments. Freiburg 1987, 364 p., Mus. Not .., fig.
• The Linster folk song collection (1933/34) from Hatzfeld in the Banat. Freiburg 1988, 308 p., Mus.Not., Fig.
• Volga German songs from Argentina. Thomas Kopp's records in the Santa Teresa colony. Freiburg 1993, 104 p., Mus.Not., Fig.
• Suffering in song. Southeast and East German camp songs and songs of flight, expulsion and deportation. With a foreword by Gustav Wabro. Freiburg, Johannes Künzig Institute for East German Folklore 1996, 472 pages, mus. Not.
• Flight and displacement. 50 years later. Papers at the conference of the Johannes Künzig Institute for East German Folklore, October 12-14, 1995. Ed. By Gottfried habenicht. Freiburg, Johannes Künzig Institute for East German Folklore, 1996, 167 pp.
• Pipatsche and field flower from dr Heed. Annotated edition of the Banat Swabian folk song collection of Johannes Szimits from 1908. With a foreword by Prof. Dr. Werner Mezger. Freiburg, Johannes Künzig Institute for East German Folklore, 1997, 583 p., Mus. Not.
• 60 cântece româneşti din colecția Treufest Peregrin (1863). [60 Romanian songs from the Trreufest Peregrin Collection (1863)]. Ms., 66 pages, (in print in Romania).

Films about musical instruments with accompanying publications

(Encyclopaedia-Cinematographica-Publications of the Institute for Scientific Film in Göttingen)

• Southeastern Europe, Romania: Manufacture of a shepherd's flute in Vaideeni. E 1866/1972. Göttingen 1974, 27 p., Ill., Sketches, map.
• Southeast Europe, Romania: Playing a shepherd's flute in Vaideeni. E 1748/1971. Göttingen 1974, 20 p., Mus. Not., Ill., Photos, map.
• Southeast Europe, Romania: Playing a long shepherd's flute in Vaideeni. E 1749/1971. Göttingen 1974, 17 p., Mus. Not., Sketches, photos, map.
• Southeast Europe, Romania: Playing a bagpipe in Aluniș. E 1665/1971. Göttingen 1979, 27 p., Mus. Not., Sketches, photos, map.
• Central Europe, Baden: Manufacture of a ratchet in pavement. E 934. Franz Simon, with the assistance of H. Witte. Author of the accompanying publication: Gottfried habenicht. Göttingen 1978, 13 pages, photos, sketches.

literature

• Literature by and about Gottfried habenicht in the catalog of the German National Library
• Waltraut Werner-Künzig: Thanks to Gottfried habenicht on the occasion of his 60th birthday . In: Yearbook for German and Eastern European Folklore 37 . 1994, pp. 337-350. [With list of scriptures]
• Anton Peter Petri : Bibliographical Lexicon of the Banater Deutschtums . Verlag Breit, Marquartstein 1992. [With selected references to literature]
• Germina Comanici, Vasile Vetișanu (ed.): Întâlnirea generațiilor 1949-1994. Academia Română / Institutul de etnografie și folclor "C. Brăiloiu “, Bucharest 1994, p. 112c. (With selected references to literature), in Romanian