Hannjost Lixfeld
Hannjost Lixfeld (born June 7, 1937 in Siegen ; † April 9, 1998 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German folklorist and storyteller .
Career
Between 1958 and 1966 Lixfeld studied German and ethnology at the universities of Innsbruck , Vienna , Hamburg , Mainz and Marburg . In the last year of his studies he did his doctorate under Lutz Röhrich with the work Folk Tales of the Dualistic Animal Creation by God and the Devil . From 1967 to 1970 he was a research assistant at the Encyclopedia of Fairy Tales , then until 1974 research assistant in the Folklore Department of the German Department of the University of Freiburg im Breisgau . He then became an academic councilor and finally senior councilor at the Freiburg Institute for Folklore .
He died from severe kidney cancer.
Publications
- Folklore and fascism. The Reich institute for German Folklore , Indiana Univ. Pr., Bloomington, Ind., 1994, ISBN 0-253-33512-4 ( Folklore studies in translation )
- with Wolfgang Jacobeit and Olaf Bockhorn (eds.): Völkische Wissenschaft. Forms and tendencies of German and Austrian folklore in the first half of the 20th century , Vienna 1994.
- God and the devil as creators of the world. A study of the dualistic animal creation in European and non-European folk tradition , Fink, Munich, 1971 (Motive, Volume 2, also university dissertation Mainz 1971)
- Joke. For secondary school , Reclam, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-15-009542-5 (Universal Library; vol. 9542)
literature
- Ulrich Marzolph: Lixfeld, Hannjost. In: Enzyklopädie des Märchen Vol. 8 (1996), Col. 1151-1152.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lixfeld, Hannjost |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German folklorist and storyteller |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 7, 1937 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wins |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 9, 1998 |
| Place of death | Freiburg in Breisgau |