Hiltraud Ast

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Hiltraud Ast (born December 16, 1923 in Vienna ; † May 26, 2020 there ) was an Austrian folklorist and local history researcher .

Life

Hiltraud Ast was born as the daughter of high school professor Alois Hornung and secondary school teacher Margarete Hornung. She attended elementary school in Vienna- Grinzing , the secondary school in the Hofzeile monastery in Vienna-Döbling and the high school in Billrothstrasse. She graduated from high school in 1941. After the Reich Labor Service in Thuringia and a military service in Vienna, she studied mathematics and physics at the University of Vienna and graduated in 1945 with a teaching degree in physics.

Hiltraud Ast moved from Vienna to Amstetten in 1946 and to Gutenstein in 1949 .

Hiltraud Ast was married to Wilhelm Ast and had a son and a daughter. She lived and worked in Gutenstein and Vienna.

Folklore

From 1955 to 1965 Hiltraud Ast worked for agricultural appraisals and explored the country, the people and the dialect and built up a private folklore collection. In 1954 and 1962 she worked for the Lower Austrian provincial exhibitions . In 1965 she founded the Gutenstein Forest Farming Museum in the Alte Hofmühle in Gutenstein and in 1975 took over the management of the museum and the management of the Society of Friends of Gutenstein's museum association . From 1978 she was involved in the creation of folkloric films. In 1994 she founded the Gutenstein farmers' market. From 2009 to 2011 she worked for the Internet portal on the subject of historical wood use and forest use with the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna .

Awards

Publications

  • with Wilhelm Ast, Ernst Katzer: charcoal and iron. Contributions to folklore, economic and social history of the area around Gutenstein. Sketches by Anton Lehner, Niederösterreichische Volkskunde - 6, Trauner, Linz 1970.
  • with Werner Galler: Christmas exhibition of the folklore collection of the Lower Austrian State Museum. Winter work of the forest farmers. Memorial exhibition for Wilhelm Ast December 3, 1976 to January 30. 1977, drawings by Anton Lehner. Cultural Department of the Office of the Lower Austrian Provincial Government, Vienna 1976.
  • The lime burners on the eastern edge of the Alps. Contributions to folklore, economic and social history of Lower Austria. Lower Austrian Folklore - 9, published by the Society of Friends of Gutenstein, Perlach-Verlag, Augsburg 1977, ISBN 3-922769-12-8 .
  • with Sepp Tiefenbacher : Life and work in the forest. Gutenstein in poems and pictures. 1 record as a supplement, Schendl, Vienna 1978.
  • The shingle makers in the land around the Schneeberg. Contributions to the cultural history of the Lower Austrian quarter under the Vienna Woods. Photos by Klaus Vogel, sketches by Peter Seeberg, published by the Society of Friends of Gutenstein, Niederösterreichische Volkskunde - 13, Perlach-Verlag, Augsburg 1981, ISBN 3-922769-12-8 .
  • The Gutenstein farmers, their land and its fate. Published by the Society of Friends of Gutenstein, Gutenstein Forest Farming Museum, Perlach-Verlag, Augsburg 1983, ISBN 3-922769-14-4 .
  • The forest farmer and his craft. The museum in the Alte Hofmühle zu Gutenstein. Published by the Society of Friends of Gutenstein, Gutenstein 1983.
  • Gutenstein market. Farmers - craftsmen - workers. Published by the Society of Friends of Gutenstein, Perlach-Verlag, Augsburg 1986, ISBN 3-922769-18-7 .
  • Summer freshness of the imperial era. The upper class summer society and their local hosts. Meeting of two social classes . Society of Friends of Gutenstein, Perlach, Augsburg 1990, ISBN 3-922769-21-7 .
  • with Gertrud Smola: Weißhafner and stoneware manufacturers. Majolica workshops in Lower Austria as the forerunner of the Austrian crockery manufacture in Graz-Karlau. Published by Michael Martischnig, Österreichischer Kunst- und Kulturverlag, Vienna 1991.
  • The Ortmanners. An industrial people in the country. Gutenstein Forestry Museum, Perlach, Augsburg 1992, ISBN 3-922769-22-5 .
  • Feichtenbach. A valley landscape in the Schneeberg region of Lower Austria. Published by the market town of Pernitz, Hollinek, Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-85119-257-5 .
  • (Ed.): Charcoal burning in Europe and the Caribbean. Cultural anthropological studies. Symposium in the Gutenstein Forest Farmers Museum, Vienna Contributions to Ethnology and Anthropology - 6, WUV-Univ.-Verl., Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-85114-212-8 .
  • Chronicle of Waidmannsfeld and Neusiedl - the ladder makers. Tour through a historical landscape. Published by the municipality of Waidmannsfeld, Waidmannsfeld 1996, ISBN 3-9500597-0-9 .
  • with Sepp Tiefenbacher: The Gutensteiner Holzknecht . Speech, work and life. Illustrations from the Lower Austrian - Styrian border mountains, Society of Friends of Gutenstein, Perlach Verlag, Augsburg 1997, ISBN 3-922769-26-8 .
  • Gutenstein, a wildly beautiful valley. Market town of Gutenstein, Gutenstein 1999.
  • Rohr im Gebirge - home of the charcoal burners. Society of Friends of Gutenstein, published by the municipality of Rohr im Gebirge, Rohr im Gebirge 2000.
  • Charcoal production in the Lower Austrian Waldmark. Work and life of the Waldköhl people in the Schneeberg area in Lower Austria. European charcoal burner association - Free series of publications - Issue 5, Schneeberg 2001.
  • Schwarzau in the mountains. The market, the valleys, the courtyards. Time travel through a historical landscape. Village renewal association Schwarzau im Gebirge, Schwarzau im Gebirge 2002.
  • Sawmills in the Lower Austrian Waldmark. A hike along the streams at the foot of the Schneeberg. Society of Friends of Gutenstein, Gutenstein 2006.
  • with Herbert Kohlross: The black pine in Austria. Their extraordinary importance for nature, economy and culture. Self-published by Herbert Kohlross, Gutenstein 2006, ISBN 978-3-200-00720-8 .
  • Ortmann - SCA Hygiene Products GmbH. 1980-2006. A new work is created. Pernitz 2007.
  • Ladder builders and scaffolders. From the master device to the climbing aid. Contribution to folklore, economic and social history of Lower Austria and Vienna, Society of Friends of Gutenstein, Gutenstein 2009.
  • (Ed.): The Society of Friends of Gutenstein. A non-profit cultural association celebrates "50 years". Society of Friends of Gutenstein, Gutenstein 2010.

Movies

  • Making a butte. Society of Friends of Gutenstein, DVD, 23 min, Gutenstein 1965.
  • Manufacture of a wooden water wheel , Austrian Media Library, Sign.No.VX-02905, 39 min (filmed in Gutenstein 1978), Vienna 1981.
  • A guided tour through the Alte Hofmühle Museum with Hiltraud Ast. WaldBauern Museum - working with wood. Society of Friends of Gutenstein, DVD video, 33 min, Gutenstein 2012.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary notice of Prof. Hiltraud Ast - Gutenstein local cemetery. Retrieved June 2, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Ast, Hiltraud
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian folklorist and local history researcher
DATE OF BIRTH December 16, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH May 26, 2020
Place of death Vienna