Heidrun Alzheimer

Heidrun Alzheimer (born April 30, 1959 in Gemünden am Main ) is a German folklorist and university professor . Since 2006 she has held the chair for European Ethnology at the Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg .

Career

After graduating from high school in 1978, she worked until 1982 a. a. as part of a traineeship in local Lower Franconian journalism. From 1982 to 1986 she studied sociology , psychology , folklore and pedagogy at the Julius-Maximilians-Universität zu Würzburg , the latter course of which she graduated with a diploma . In 1990 she received her doctorate in folklore with a thesis on folklore in Bavaria. Until 2006 she was employed in various positions at the University of Würzburg and received a habilitation scholarship in 2000 and 2001 , before receiving her habilitation in Würzburg in 2003 with a thesis on narrative public education . As a result, she was awarded the Venia legendi for folklore. From 2009 to 2015 she was Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Cultural Studies at the University of Bamberg.

Alzheimer was a consultant for the Hanns Seidel Foundation from 1992 to 2010 . In addition, she participated in a study on the public perception of the Bundeswehr as part of a working group of the Federal Ministry of Defense . From 2000 to 2006 she was the scientific director of a project funded by the Lower Franconia district on the subject of customs . Since 2003 Alzheimer has been the first chairman of the Association for the Publication of Scientific Studies in Folklore , since 2005 a member of the Advisory Board of the Görres Society - since 2015 its Vice-President - and co-editor of the Yearbook for European Ethnology of the Görres Society and since 2007 a representative of Folklore on the Advisory Board of the Bavarian State Association for Homeland Care .

In 2012 Alzheimer took over the management of the folklore section of the Görres Society. She has also been a full member of the Commission for Bavarian State History at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences since 2013 . A year later, she became a member of the expert committee for intangible cultural heritage at the Bavarian State Ministry for Education and Culture, Science and Art , of which she has been deputy chairman since February 2015. Shortly afterwards she became a member of the committee of the Bamberg Historical Society .

Alzheimer is also a member of the Senate of the University of Bamberg and also holds numerous other functions in various institutions. Her main research interests include the narrative elements of folklore, popular enlightenment, and gender studies in ethnology.

Fonts (selection)

• Handbook for narrative public education. Standardization of behavior through “moral stories” 1780–1848 . Berlin 2004 (habilitation thesis), ISBN 978-3110176018 .
• Coffee - consumption, culture, commerce. Accompanying publication to the exhibition of the same name in the Museum Malerwinkelhaus Marktbreit, March 20 - October 24, 2004 . (= Series of publications of the Museum Malerwinkelhaus 4 ), Marktbreit 2004.
• Folklore in Bavaria. A biobibliographical lexicon of the forerunners, sponsors and former experts . (= Publications on folklore and cultural history 50 ), Würzburg 1991 (dissertation).

Web links

• Heidrun Alzheimer on the website of European Ethnology at the University of Bamberg