Hermann Strobach

Hermann Strobach (born March 1, 1925 in Groß Schönau ; † August 9, 2018 ) was a German German philologist and folklorist who made a name for himself in researching folk music .

After completing a commercial college from 1942 to 1943, Hermann Strobach did a savings bank apprenticeship and was then called up for military service. In 1945 he was released from Soviet captivity. In 1946 Strobach did a new teacher training and worked as a new teacher until 1948 . In 1948/49 he attended the technical college for economics and administration in Sebnitz and passed the Abitur there in 1949. He then began studying German, history and philosophy at the University of Leipzig . In 1954 he passed the state examination in German studies and was then editor at Volk und Wissen Verlag in Berlin until 1956 . Subsequently, Strobach became a research assistant at the Institute for German Folklore of the German Academy of Sciences , later the Academy of Sciences of the GDR . The doctorate took place in 1961 with Wolfgang Steinitz , Gerhard Scholz and Waltraut Woeller with a thesis on the subject of peasant complaints. Studies on the socially critical German folk song . In 1971 he became head of the feudalism department of the cultural history / folklore science department at the Central Institute for History of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR. He remained in this position until his doctorate B on the subject of the history and theory of German folk poetry, especially folk songs. Studies in 1978. Reviewers were Helmut Bock , Ingeborg Spiewald and again Waltraud Woeller. He was also a lecturer at the Humboldt University in Berlin . In 1978 Strobach was appointed head of the cultural history / folklore science department. In September 1983 Strobach became professor at the academy, and in 1990 he retired.

Strobach had been a member of the editorial team and editor of the Yearbook for Folklore and Cultural History since 1961 .

Fonts

• Peasant lawsuits. Studies on the socially critical German folk song . Academy, Berlin 1964 (publications by the Institute for German Folklore, Volume 33)
• The poor man 1525. Folklore Studies (Ed.). Academy, Berlin 1975 (Publications on Folklore and Cultural History, Volume 59)
• German folk song in the past and present . Academy, Berlin 1980
• History of German folk poetry (ed.). Academy, Berlin 1981
• Up on that mountain. Ballads, love songs, vocational and class songs (ed.). Hinstorff, Rostock 1984 (German folk songs, volume 1)
• Dress up Gretlein. Work songs, customs, drinking, dance, joke and ridicule songs, riddle and Competition songs (ed.). Hinstorff, Rostock 1987 (German folk songs, volume 2)
• The great handbook of folk songs (ed.). Weltbild, Augsburg 2002, ISBN 978-3-8289-2421-5

literature

• Siegfried Neumann (Ed.): Studia ethnographica. In honor of Hermann Strobach. Wossidlo archive, Rostock 1992 ( Institute for Folklore in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Wossidlo archive. Manuscript prints 1).
• Siegfried Neumann (Hrsg.): People's life and culture in the past and present. Findings and problems in an international comparison. Hermann Strobach on the occasion of his retirement. Lang, Bern a. a. 1993, ISBN 3-906750-98-1 .
• Lothar Mertens : Lexicon of the GDR historians. Biographies and bibliographies on the historians from the German Democratic Republic. Saur, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-598-11673-X , pp. 590-591.
• List of publications by Hermann Strobach 1955–1991 . In: DEMOS , Volume 30, 4/1990, Akademie-Verlag, pp. 285 ff.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Siegfried Neumann: Obituary Hermann Strobach (1925-2018) . In: Fabula Journal for Narrative Research . tape 60 , no. 1-2 , 2019, pp. 151–156 , doi : 10.1515 / fabula-2019-0011 .