Helga Anschütz
Helga Anschütz (also Harb-Anschütz ; born April 19, 1928 in Hamburg ; † May 13, 2006 in Reinbek ) was a German orientalist , geographer and lecturer who was best known for her activities for Syrian Christians , especially Tur Abdin . In addition to numerous publications on the subject of Syrian Christians, she was involved in 80 television documentaries on the subject of culture and religion in the Middle East.
Life
Anschütz studied history , philosophy, education and newspaper studies at the University of Hamburg from 1948 to 1956 . Your state examination, she graduated in 1955, 1956 doctorate it in history with a thesis on the " National Socialist German Workers' Party in Hamburg." In 1960 she passed her second state examination. From 1960 to 1989 she worked as a lecturer for German as a foreign language in various Goethe Institutes in Tehran and Rabat (Morocco) and later in several Goethe Institutes in Germany. Since 1965 she traveled regularly to the Tur Abdin for research purposes , but also to other countries in the Middle East . Several times she took leave of absence from her teaching duties in order to pursue her research.
Between 1968 and 1971 she received a grant from the German Research Foundation to research the situation of Syrian Christians. She published her results in specialist journals, such as the Eastern Church Studies , but also in daily newspapers such as the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . From 1968 on, she and her husband Boulos Harb (Paul Harb) created over 80 television documentaries on culture and religion in the Middle East.
In 1990, Anschütz was co-founder of the German-Lebanese Association, in which she was secretary for 16 years. In 1992 she founded the Mar Gabriel Association - Association for the Support of Syrian Christians , whose first chairwoman she was until 2005. After an accident in Morocco in the spring of 2001, she was handcuffed to a hospital bed, but this did not prevent her from continuing to be active on the subject of Syrian Christians.
Since 2008, the Fundatio Nisibinensis - Society for the Promotion of Aramaic Studies - has been awarding the Helga-Anschütz Prize every two years, which recognizes "outstanding scientific and artistic work of recent times that inspire occupation with the history, language and culture of the Syriacs".
Publications (selection)
- The National Socialist German Workers' Party in Hamburg. Its beginnings up to the Reichstag election of September 14, 1930 , Hamburg 1955, DNB 480126925 (Philosophical dissertation from March 9, 1956, IV, 43, 186 pages with drawings and graphics, 4).
- The Syrian Christians in Tur Abdin, an early Christian population group between persistence, stagnation and dissolution (= The Eastern Christianity, NF , Volume 34), 1st edition, Augustinus, Würzburg 1984, ISBN 3-7613-0128-6 (... second and third Edition by Bar Hebräus-Verlag: The Syrian Christians from TurʿAbdin ).
- (as ed. with Paul Harb, German Orient Institute in the association of the German Overseas Institute Foundation): Christians in the Middle Orient. Churches, origins, distribution - a documentation (= current information service of the modern Orient , special issue 10), German Orient Institute, Hamburg 1985, ISBN 3-89173-000-4 .
- Morocco: from Tangier to Fès , a film by Helga Anschütz and Paul Harb , VHS video cassette, 45 minutes, DuMont, Cologne 1991, ISBN 3-7701-2781-1 .
literature
- Christian Weise, Art. Anschütz, Helga, in: Biographisch-bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon 28 (2007) 46–50.
Web links
- Literature by and about Helga Anschütz in the catalog of the German National Library
- Memorial page for Anschütz at Huyodo - Syriac People Internet Portal ( Memento from January 26, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Anschütz, Helga |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Harb-Anschütz, Helga |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German orientalist and geographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 19, 1928 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 13, 2006 |
| Place of death | Reinbek |