Hanka Fasske
Hanka Faßke (Sorbian Hanka Fascyna , nee Elle (Sorbian Elic ), born November 16, 1935 in Commerau ; † April 15, 2002 ibid) was a Sorbian folklorist and Slavist .
Life
Hanka Elle was born in Commerau near Königswartha as the daughter of a Sorbian carpenter and grew up bilingual in Upper Lusatia, Saxony . After the end of the Second World War, she attended the Sorbian high school in Česká Lípa in Czechoslovakia and then in Varnsdorf . When she returned to the GDR , she passed the Abitur at the Sorbian High School in Bautzen in 1953 . Then Hanka Elle studied Slavic and Sorbian folklore at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig . Paul Nedo was one of her teachers . This also supervised her diploma thesis on the subject of the previous results and collections in the field of Sorbian folk dance , which she successfully defended in 1957.
As a graduate Slavist, she extended her studies by one year at Charles University in Prague . She then worked for five years in the House of Sorbian Folk Art in Bautzen. During this time, she continued the scientific research on Sorbian folk dance that had begun when she was preparing her diploma thesis, which resulted in the first publications on the subject.
In 1965 she went to the Folklore Department of the Institute for Sorbian Folk Research in Bautzen, where she dealt intensively with various folklore topics such as custom and costume research. She also worked on updating the Sorbian Bibliography.
Hanka Faßke also made lasting contributions to the Sorbian museum system. In 1982 she took over the management of the Museum of Sorbian History and Culture and in 1988 became director of the Sorbian Museum in Budissin. In 1992 Hanka Faßke retired, ten years later she died in her birthplace and was buried in Königswartha .
Her husband was the Sorbian linguist Helmut Faßke .
Fonts (selection)
- (with Jürgen Matschie): Sorbian dances , 3rd revised. Ed., Bautzen 2006.
literature
- Ines Keller, Martin Wilde: Hanka Faßke (1935–2002) . In: Sächsische Heimatblätter 48, No. 3, 2002, p. 185.
- Ruth Thiemann: Your heart beat for the Sorbian culture, in Memoriam Hanka Faßke . In: Oberlausitzer Kulturschau with a comprehensive range of events , Bautzen, 8 (2002), no. 6, pp. 26-27.
Web links
- Literature by and about Hanka Faßke (Fascyna) in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Hanka Faßke (Fascyna) in the Saxon Bibliography
- Entry in the Saxon biography
Individual evidence
- ^ Ines Keller, Martin Wilde: Hanka Faßke (1935–2002) . In: Sächsische Heimatblätter 48, No. 3, 2002, p. 185.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Faßke, Hanka |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German folklorist and Slavist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 16, 1935 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Commerau |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 15, 2002 |
| Place of death | Commerau |