Heike Müns

Heike Müns (* 1943 in Bad Doberan ) is a German folklorist and author.

biography

After studying German and musicology in Rostock , which she graduated with the state examination in 1968 , Heike Müns held a teaching post in the subjects of German and music in Rostock from 1969 to 1977. From 1979 to 1983 she worked as a research assistant at the Academy of Sciences of the GDR (AdW) in Berlin. After completing her doctorate in folklore in 1983, she was a research assistant at the AdW in the Wossidlo Archive (Institute for Folklore) in Rostock until 1991. Since 1992 Müns has worked as a research assistant at the Federal Institute for Culture and History of Germans in Eastern Europe . She is a lecturer at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg .

Act

Her main areas of work in research and teaching are song and custom research, the everyday culture of Germans in Eastern Europe, the everyday life of Hungarian Germans , displaced persons in the former GDR and the history of science.

Memberships

Müns is a member of the German Society for Folklore (dgv) and several commissions (for German and Eastern European Folklore in the DGV; for song, music and dance research in the DGV; International Council for Traditional Music [ICTM]; Expert Committee for Folklore in the J. -G.-Herder Research Council).

Works (selection)

• (Ed.): Low German song book. Folk songs from five centuries. Hinstorff, Rostock 1981
• Annual customs in the Mecklenburg village during the transition period from feudalism to capitalism (approx. 1800 - 1870). A folklore study. 1983
• (Ed.): Dat du mien Leewsten bust. 200 Low German songs from the past and present. Hinstorff, Rostock 1988
• (Ed., Together with Burkhard Meier): White sails fly on the blue sea. Pomerania in song and custom. Rostock 1992.
• From bridal crown to harvest wreath. Annual customs and customs in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. A manual. Rostock 2002
• (Ed.): Music and Migration in East Central Europe. Munich and Vienna 2005
• (Ed., Together with Matthias Weber): "Thirst for knowledge ..." Research on the culture and history of Germans in Eastern Europe. Two decades of Immanuel Kant scholarship. (Writings of the Federal Institute for Culture and History of Germans in Eastern Europe, Vol. 29), Munich 2007
• In addition, editor-in-chief for:
  • Series of publications by the Commission for German and Eastern European Folklore 1994–2004.
  • Yearbook for German and Eastern European Folklore 1993-2004 (36 with Peter Assion , 38–40 with Theodor Kohlmann ).

Awards

• 2010 Quickborn Prize of the Lower Saxony Savings Bank Foundation and the Quickborn Association for Low German Language and Literature eV

Web links

• Literature by and about Heike Müns in the catalog of the German National Library
• Heike Müns at the Federal Institute for Culture and History of Germans in Eastern Europe