Helga Raschke

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Helga Raschke (* 3. July 1935 in Gotha as Helga Tröber ) is a German ethnographer , museologist , homeland researcher and non-fiction writer . She is considered an expert on the history of the city and regional folklore of Gotha and its surroundings.

biography

After graduation Helga Raschke took in 1954 a degree in museum studies at the College for museum assistants in Köthen (Anhalt) and White Rock (later Technical School for Cultural guides Leipzig on) that they in 1958 as one of the first graduates of this then-new program in the GDR as a registered Museologist completed. While still at university, she took over the management of what was then the city museum in Nauen in 1956 , which she held until 1960.

From 1960 she was a research assistant at the Gotha Museum for Regional History and Folklore with Ekhof Theater (since 2013 Historical Museum) in Gotha and its director from 1968 to 1981. From 1969 to 1980 she published the Gothaer Museumhefte with her own contributions to regional history. At the same time, Raschke began a distance learning course in ethnography at the Humboldt University in Berlin in 1965 , which she completed in 1970 with a degree in ethnography.

From 1981, Raschke worked as a research assistant at the newly founded this year Research Center of Regional History of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR , she at her dissertation "classes and from 1640 to 1740 in Gotha" Customized and from which it in 1988 for Dr. phil. received his doctorate . After the Academy of Sciences was closed after the end of the GDR, she worked as a research assistant at the Historical Commission in Berlin until the transition into retirement .

Helga Raschke is married, has two children and lives in Gotha.

Activity as a local researcher and author

Helga Raschke, 2008

Raschke's work mainly deals with local history issues in the city and the Gotha district . She researched numerous folklore aspects of the general regional history of Gotha and its surroundings from the 17th to the 20th century. She published her results in the form of numerous non-fiction books and several scientific publications. Since 1964 she has dealt with two topics that were blank spots in history: The life and work of Josef Ritter von Gadolla and the predominantly Jewish prisoners in the subcamp S III of the Buchenwald concentration camp. From 1995 she was involved in research and in a leading role in the legal and political rehabilitation of Josef Ritter von Gadolla, which was initiated by the city of Gotha . She publishes her results in numerous non-fiction books, academic monographs and more than 200 articles in compilations, journals and yearbooks.

After entering the age transition since 1991, she devoted herself increasingly to folklore and regional history research and publication. From 1991 to 2004 she edited the local history series "Between Fahner Höh` und Rennsteig" for Gothaer Allgemeine and published more than 80 of her own articles. As an ethnographer, she co-founded the Folklore Commission for Thuringia eV, a society for the promotion of folklore as a science in Thuringia, and was its chairman from 1993 to 1999.

Since 1995 she has been collecting black and white photos (from the period from the beginning of photography to the 1970s) of everyday life in Thuringia and, as a volunteer, creates a database for the Folklore Commission for Thuringia, which in 2013 has grown to more than 7000 photos with their logs. From this fund, she published the series "Browsed in the photo box" in the Gothaer Allgemeine.

In addition, Raschke is active in research and journalism within the framework of her membership in the Urania Culture and Education Association (dissolved in 2013), Gothaer Turnverein and Freundeskreis Leinakanal eV prepared a special exhibition in the Museum of Regional History and Folklore in Schloss Friedenstein. She regularly communicates her knowledge of local history through lectures.

Awards

  • 1979 Medal of Merit of the GDR
  • 1985 Johannes R. Becher Medal in silver
  • In 2000, the city of Gotha awarded Helga Raschke the Myconius Medal for her decades of research and publications on Gotha's history , the highest award of the city of Gotha after being granted honorary citizenship .
  • 2002 Honorary member of the Urania Culture and Education Association Gotha and the Gothaer Turnverein 1860 eV
  • 2003 Culture Prize from the district of Gotha
  • 2013 plaque of honor " Volkssolidarität Bundesverband eV"

Works and publications

  • Tine discovers old Gotha. From the villa to the destruction of the Grimmenstein. Published by Freundeskreis Leinakanal eV, Gotha 2014
  • Hopping and jumping. 150 years Gothaer Turnverein 1860; Accompanying volume for the exhibition, April 18 to September 26, 2010, Gotha, Schloss Friedenstein. Schloss Friedenstein Gotha Foundation, Gotha 2010, ISBN 978-3-940998-07-1
  • Gotha: well known - world famous; a special kind of Heimatbuch. With photographs by Lutz Ebhardt, Druckmedienzentrum Gotha, self-published, Gotha 2009, ISBN 978-3-939182-20-7
  • Josef Ritter von Gadolla and the last days of the war in Gotha. Self-published, Gotha 2007
  • Living and working in the northern Thuringian Forest. Sutton Verlag, Erfurt 2006, ISBN 3-89702-946-4
  • A life dedicated to folklore. Memories of Gotha, Köthen and Nauen 1949 - 1981. Self-published, Gotha 2005
  • Rummaged in the photo box. Everyday stories from Gotha , self-published, Gotha 2004
  • The external command SIII and the construction projects in the Jonastal. State Center for Political Education Thuringia, Erfurt 2003 and 2005, ISBN 3-931426-73-4
  • Memories of Josef Ritter von Gadolla. (together with Egon Ehrlich), Federal Ministry for National Defense, Vienna 2003
  • Gotha. Turbulent times - the 50s. Wartberg Verlag, Gudensberg-Gleichen 2002
  • Population and craft of a Thuringian royal seat: Gotha between 1640 and 1740. Quartus-Verlag, Bucha bei Jena 2001, ISBN 3-931505-45-6
  • Co-editor: Thüringer Hefte für Volkskunde. On festival culture in Thuringia (2). Festivals in the district of Gotha and in the Unstrut-Hainich district. Conferences in Bad Langensalza 1997, Kammerforst 1997 and Gotha 1999 , Vol. 7, Erfurt 2001, ISSN  0944-2790
  • Everyday life in the Thuringian Forest in historical photographs. Quartus-Verlag, Bucha near Jena 2000, ISBN 3-931505-72-3
  • About water servants, millers, tanners and flax farmers. Urania Kultur- und Bildungsverein eV Working group Leinakanal, Gotha 2000
  • To wash. Writings of the Folklore Advisory and Documentation Center for Thuringia, Erfurt 1999
  • Gotha: everyday impressions. Sutton Verlag, Erfurt 1999, ISBN 3-89702-146-3
  • Co-editor of Thuringian Hefts for Folklore. Celebrate in public. On festival culture in Thuringia (1) conferences in Erfurt 1996 and Kammerforst 1997. Vol. 6, Erfurt 1998, ISSN  0944-2790
  • Gotha: The city and its citizens. Geiger-Verlag, Horb am Neckar 1992 and 1996, ISBN 3-89264-725-9
  • Residenzstadt Gotha: 1640 - 1918. Haack-Verlag, Gotha 1990, ISBN 3-7301-0889-1
  • Classes and shifts from 1640 to 1740 in Gotha. Dissertation A, Academy of Sciences of the GDR, Berlin 1988
  • Conrad Ekhof on the 200th anniversary of his death. (together with museums of the city of Gotha), Druckerei Progress, BT Nordhausen 1978
  • Gotha from the beginnings of settlement to the present: guide through the exhibition in the Museum of Regional History. Museum for Regional History and Folklore Gotha, Gotha 1977

Publications about Helga Raschke (excluding newspaper articles)

  • Michael Mitscherling: Folklorist in the German Democratic Republic today. Vienna 1990, pp. 120-121
  • Wolfgang Möller: My time with Helga , self-published, Gotha 2003
  • Klaus Petzold: Profiles from the district of Gotha. Gotha and the surrounding area. Citizens of our time , Vol. I, Erfurt 2001, p. 267
  • Selected bibliography in: Thüringer Volkskundliche Mitteilungen , Volume 8, Issue 1, July 2000, pp. 27–30
  • Dieter Fechner / Hedwig Völkerling: Thuringian authors of the present. A lexicon , Bucha bei Jena 2003, pp. 152–153
  • Selected bibliography in: Thüringer Volkskundliche Mitteilungen, Volume 13, Issue 2, December 2005, p. 33
  • Gotha authors. Urania 2006
  • Vademecum of History 2005 ... last 2010/11, Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rita Roßmann, Frauke Wagner: Great performance show at the Turnverein anniversary gala. gotha.thueringer-allgemeine.de, May 31, 2010, accessed on October 30, 2013 .
  2. ↑ Gotha Gadolla Memorial soon also in Graz. gotha.de, March 22, 2013, accessed October 7, 2013 .
  3. ^ The Myconius Medal. gotha.de, accessed on October 7, 2013 .
personal data
SURNAME Raschke, Helga
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tröber, Helga (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ethnographer, museologist, local researcher and non-fiction author
DATE OF BIRTH July 3, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Gotha