Ingeborg Weber-Kellermann

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Ingeborg Weber-Kellermann (born June 26, 1918 in Berlin ; † June 12, 1993 in Marburg ) was a German folklorist .

Career

Scientific activity

Ingeborg Weber-Kellermann first studied folklore, ethnology , anthropology and prehistory with Adolf Spamer, among others . After completing her doctorate at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin in 1940, she experienced the end of the war as a Red Cross sister in Prague , where she also met liberated Jews from the Theresienstadt concentration camp , which shaped her later views and work. From 1946 to 1959 she was a research assistant and then until 1960 deputy director at the Institute for German Folklore of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin (DAW) in East Berlin , but lived in West Berlin . In the same year she moved to the Institute for Central European Folk Research , later the Institute for European Ethnology / Cultural Studies , at the University of Marburg . After her habilitation in 1963, she was Professor of European Ethnology from 1968 to 1985. Her main research interests were childhood and family sociology , interethnics as well as celebrations , customs and songs . Her book of Christmas carols , published in 1982, presented the development of the Christmas carol from priestly song to family Christmas carol in a critical edition, but was also conceived as a popular hymn book for the Advent season, which appeared in three editions until 1984 and is still published today.

Ingeborg Weber-Kellermann criticized the orientation of folklore, which was strongly influenced by the “blood and soil” ideology, and in particular language island research (by Kuhn , Jungbauer , Künzig and many others). She contrasted this with her concept of interethnics, which focuses on acculturation and intercultural takeover processes. The expellees' associations criticized their views and attacked them as "traitors to the fatherland". In 1985 she was awarded the Wilhelm Leuschner Medal for having "freed folklore from folklore".

Private

Although her parents were opponents of National Socialism , Weber-Kellermann joined the Association of German Girls as a child , but was never later a member of the NSDAP .

Ingeborg Weber-Kellermann was married; their marriage was divorced before 1968. Her son Heinz worked as a cameraman for his mother's film productions in the 1970s, for example for “Harvest Festival in Maramures ” (1972).

Fonts

  • Josefsdorf : Life picture of a German village in Slavonia (=  German writings on country and folk research. Volume 15). Hirzel, Leipzig 1942, DNB 363021566 ( dissertation , University of Berlin , 1941, 84 pages).
  • On the question of interethnic relations in linguistic island folklore. In: Austrian magazine for folklore . Vol. 62 (1959), pp. 19-47.
  • Harvest usage in the rural working world of the 19th century. Based on the Mannhardt survey in Germany of 1865 (=  publications by the Institute for Central European Folk Research at the Philipps University of Marburg-Lahn. Series A, Vol. 2). Elwert, Marburg 1965 (habilitation thesis, University of Marburg).
  • Problems of Interethnic Research in Southeastern Europe. In: Ethnologia Europaea . Vol. 1 (1967), No. 3, pp. 218-231.
  • German folklore between German studies and social sciences (=  Metzler Collection. Vol. 79). Metzler, Stuttgart 1969.
  • (with Walter Stolle ) Folk life in Hessen 1970. Work, working day and party in traditional and industrial society. Schwartz, Göttingen 1971, ISBN 3-509-00565-1 .
  • (with Annemie Schenk) Interethnics and social change in a multilingual village in the Romanian Banat (=  Marburg studies on comparative ethnosociology. Vol. 3). Marburg Study Group for European Ethnology, Marburg 1973.
  • The German family. An attempt at a social history (=  Suhrkamp-Taschenbuch. Vol. 185). Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1974, ISBN 3-518-06685-4 .
  • The family. History, stories and pictures. Insel, Frankfurt am Main 1976, ISBN 3-458-05020-5 .
  • (Ed.) On interethnics: Donauschwaben, Transylvanian Saxons and their neighbors. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1978, ISBN 3-518-07480-6 .
  • Custom , family, work life. Writings (=  Marburg studies on comparative ethnosociology. Vol. 10). Marburg 1978.
  • Christmas. A cultural and social history of the Christmas season . Bucher, Luzern / Frankfurt am Main 1978, ISBN 3-7658-0273-5 .
  • The childhood . Clothing and living, work and play. A cultural story. Frankfurt am Main 1979, ISBN 3-458-05095-7 .
  • Popular festivals in Germany (= HB-Bildatlas special. Vol. 3). HB, Hamburg 1981.
  • The book of Christmas carols . With piano or organ accompaniment. Musical arrangement by Hilger Schallehn . Schott, Mainz 1982, ISBN 3-7957-2061-3 . Paperback: Melody edition with chord numbering (Series Musik Atlantis-Schott, Volume 8213). 12th edition. Atlantis, Mainz 2010, ISBN 978-3-254-08213-8 .
  • Women's life in the 19th century. Empire and Romanticism, Biedermeier, Wilhelminian style. Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-08516-4 .
  • The children's new clothes. 200 years of German children are fashionable in their social punctuation (=  Suhrkamp-Taschenbuch. Volume 1128). Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1985, ISBN 3-518-37628-4 .
  • Sour weeks, happy holidays. Celebrations and everyday life in the language of customs. Bucher, Munich / Lucerne 1985, ISBN 3-7658-0471-1 .
  • Country life in the 19th century. Beck, Munich 1987, ISBN 3-406-32177-1 .
  • From a craftsman's son to a millionaire. A 19th century Berlin career. Beck, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-406-34707-X (biography of Wilhelm Weber ).
  • The nursery (= Insel-Bücherei. Volume 1126). Insel, Frankfurt am Main 1991, ISBN 3-458-19126-7 .
  • The light and the dark threshold. How children experience birth and death (=  Beck series. Vol. 1035). Beck, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-406-37425-5 .
  • Remember and forget: autobiographical material and other materials. Edited by Siegfried Becker, Andreas Bimmer. Jonas, Marburg 1993, ISBN 3-89445-240-4 .
  • The book of nursery rhymes. 235 old and new songs. Cultural history, notes, texts, images. Piano movements by Hilger Schallehn and Manfred Schmitz. Schott, Mainz 1997, ISBN 3-7957-2063-X . Paperback: Melody edition with chord numbering (Series Musik Atlantis-Schott, Volume 8370). 2nd Edition. Atlantis, Mainz 2010, ISBN 978-3-254-08370-8 .

Furthermore, a number of films.

literature

  • Siegfried Becker, Andreas C. Bimmer (Hrsg.): Rural culture. International symposium at the Institute for European Ethnology and Cultural Research, Marburg, in honor of Ingeborg Weber-Kellermann. Goettingen 1990.
  • Annemie Schenk: Interethnic Research. In: Rolf W. Brednich (Hrsg.): Grundriss der Volkskunde: Introduction to the research fields of European ethnology. 3. Edition. Reimer, Berlin 2001, pp. 363-390.
  • From language island research to interethnics. In: Ingeborg Weber-Kellermann, Andreas C. Bimmer, Siegfried Becker: Introduction to Folklore / European Ethnology. A history of science. 3. Edition. Metzler, Stuttgart 2003, pp. 175-180.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Away with Santa Claus . Die Zeit, No. 52, December 22, 1989.
  2. ↑ a b Elsbeth Wallnöfer: Take measure, keep measure: women in the subject of folklore . Böhlau, Vienna 2008, p. 100f.
personal data
SURNAME Weber-Kellermann, Ingeborg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German folklorist
DATE OF BIRTH June 26, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH June 12, 1993
Place of death Marburg