Ingo Nentwig

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Ingo Martin Friedrich Karl Nentwig (born April 8, 1960 in Schwenningdorf ; † January 30, 2016 in Rödinghausen ) was a German sinologist and ethnologist .

Life

education and study

After graduation in 1979 at the Freiherr-vom-Stein-Gymnasium in Bünde Ingo Nentwig studied until 1982 Sinology, Anthropology and Philosophy at the Westfälische Wilhelms University in Münster from 1982 to 1985, one from DAAD mediated scholarship from the Chinese Ministry of Education narrative research , Chinese folklore and Mongolian at Liaoning University in Shenyang ( People's Republic of China ). From 1985 to 1993 he studied Sinology and Manchurian with Erling von Mende , ethnology with Georg Pfeffer and philosophy with Wolfgang Fritz Haug at the Free University of Berlin . After many years of funding from the German National Academic Foundation , he received his doctorate in 1994 on shamanism in the oral traditions of the ethnic minorities of the Daur , Evenks , Oroqen and Hezhen in northeast China .

activities

In 1991 and 1993 he worked as a visiting scholar at Liaoning University for part of the time in the VW research project "Handbook of rural culture Liaoning " of the East Asian seminar at the Free University of Berlin. From June 1994 to 2003 he was "Curator East Asia" at the Museum für Völkerkunde zu Leipzig , from 2004 to the end of 2007 he was "Curator East Asia" of the State Ethnographic Collections of Saxony . In 2008 he worked as a freelance writer and lecturer at the “China-Arbeitsstelle” at the Technical University of Berlin . Since January 2009 he has been an assistant and lecturer at the Department of Ethnology at the University of Zurich . In the fall semester of 2012 he was visiting professor at the Central National University in Beijing .

Main focus of work and field research

The focus of Sino-ethnological research, and teaching Ingo Nentwig were orality and literacy , Chinese folk literature , narrative research and in the anthropology of religion of shamanism . In addition, there was research on “ material culture ” and numerous ethnographic exhibitions as part of the museum's activities from 1994–2007. He carried out his field research mainly in Inner Mongolia ( Hulun Buir ), in the provinces of Liaoning ( Xinbin , Xiuyan , Fuxin , Beizhen , Faku ), Heilongjiang ( Jiamusi , Qiqihar ) and Shandong ( Linqu ). Later, research was carried out in Tibet ( Nagqu , Maizhokunggar ) and among Zhuang rice farmers in Linlu ( Guangxi Autonomous Region ). For the book series The Fairy Tales of World Literature , he contributed the volume Fairy Tales of the Peoples of Northeast China .

Others

Nentwig, who saw himself politically as an undogmatic communist and was a member of the Communist League in his youth , was a founding member of the scientific advisory board of the Education Community SALZ eV and from 2009 to 2012 actuary of the Ethnological Association Zurich . He passed away in January 2016, leaving behind his wife and a son.

Fonts (selection)

  • (Co-Author): Collection and Research of Folk Literature and Ethnicity of the Northeast of the People's Republic of China. In: Central Asiatic Journal. Volume 30, No. 3-4. Otto Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1986.
  • The third Korea. Impressions of the life of the Korean minority in the People's Republic of China . In: Rainer Werning (Ed.), North Korea - Approaching an Outsider. Frankfurt / M. 1988. pp. 111-121.
  • Report from an excursion to the Evenk community of Aoluguya in the left Ergun banner of Inner Mongolia (PR China) . In: Yearbook of the Museum of Ethnology in Leipzig, Vol. XXXVIII. Berlin (GDR) 1989. pp. 101–127.
  • Hunting and migratory livestock farming in the Taiga of China: On the situation of the reindeer Evenks in the Great Hinggan Mountains . In: Fred Scholz (Ed.), Nomaden, Mobile Tierhaltung. On the current situation of nomads and on the problems and opportunities of mobile animal husbandry. Berlin 1991. pp. 165-187.
  • Imakan and Morsukun. Heroic epics of the Hezhen and Oroqen of China . In: Barbara Kellner-Heinkele (Ed.), Altaica Berolinensia. The Concept of Sovereignty in the Altaic World. Asian Research Vol. 126. Wiesbaden 1993. pp. 157-176.
  • Umnataan - a shamanic festival ceremony among the Birar-Oroqen in the PRC . In: Yearbook of the Museum of Ethnology in Leipzig, Vol. XL. Münster, Hamburg 1994. pp. 89-121.
  • Fairy tale of the peoples of Northeast China . Munich: Eugen Diederichs Verlag 1994. ISBN 3-424-01099-5 .
  • Shamans between ceremony and narration: materials on beliefs in the oral traditions of the Daur, Evenks, Oroqen and Hezhen with special consideration of Chinese research. Berlin [1994], DNB 949570982 OCLC 75894432 (dissertation FU Berlin 1996, 376, 450 pages, 9 microfiches , 24x.).
  • Three worlds theory . In: Wolfgang Fritz Haug (Ed.), Historical-Critical Dictionary of Marxism , Volume 2. Hamburg 1995. pp. 830–834.
  • The indigenous people of Taiwan . Leipzig: Museum für Völkerkunde 1997. ISBN 3-910031-21-8 .
  • Three chants from Daur shaman ceremonies in Hailar, PR China . In: Yearbook of the Museum of Ethnology in Leipzig, Vol. XLI. Münster, Hamburg 1997. pp. 113-164.
  • Shandong Province in the 19th century . In: Hans-Martin Hinz u. Christoph Lind (Ed.), Tsingtau. A chapter of German colonial history in China 1897–1914. Berlin: German Historical Museum 1998. pp. 61–65.
  • The presentation of colonial history in ethnological museums using the example of the Museum of Ethnology in Leipzig . In: Hermann J. Hiery u. Hans-Martin Hinz (Ed.), Everyday Life and Cultural Exchange: Germans and Chinese in Tsingtau 1897–1914. Berlin, Bayreuth, Wolfratshausen 1999. pp. 234-241.
  • The golden rooster and the centipede. Legends from Nanjing . Leipzig: City of Leipzig 2001.
  • The return of the plague god. Ghosts and demons as healers and consolers . In: das neue China No. 2. Berlin 2003. pp. 24–26.
  • The Final Sunset. Reminiscences About the Reindeer Herders of China . In: Cultural Survival Quarterly, Vol. 27.1. Cambridge, MA 2003. pp. 36-38.
  • Yunnan Province, its peoples and our museum's Yunnan album . In: The Yunnan album Diansheng Yixi Yinan Yiren Tushuo . Illustrated description of the Yi tribes in the west and south of Dian Province. Leipzig: Museum für Völkerkunde zu Leipzig 2003. pp. 10–20. ISBN 3-910031-30-7 .
  • Smoke and sound - shamanic chants from the incense offering ceremonies of banner people of the Han armies using the example of the farewell to ghosts and dead souls . In: Anett C. Oelschlägel , Ingo Nentwig, Jakob Taube (eds.): “Roter Altai, give your echo!” Festschrift for Erika Taube on her 65th birthday . Leipzig: Leipziger Universitäts-Verlag 2005. pp. 339–376. ISBN 3-86583-062-5 .
  • On the public relevance of scientific endeavors - current considerations on the conception of the permanent exhibition East Asia in the Museum für Völkerkunde zu Leipzig 2005 . In: Messages and reports from the Institute for Museum Studies. No. 30. Berlin: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin 2005. pp. 13–24.
  • Heaven - earth - man. Korean calligraphy by Jung Do-Jun . Leipzig: Museum für Völkerkunde zu Leipzig 2006. ISBN 3-910031-36-6 .
  • Nationalities and nationality politics in the PR China (PDF; 51 kB) . In: Marxistische Blätter , No. 4. Essen 2008. pp. 69–76.
  • The intrusion of philology into ethnology. On the history of Asian ethnology in Leipzig . In: S. Lentz u. B. Streck (Ed.), In Search of Diversity. Ethnography and geography in Leipzig. Leipzig 2009. pp. 79-94.
  • Hermann Freiherr Speck von Sternburg's manuscript on the national defense of China . In: Yearbook of the State Ethnographic Collections of Saxony, Bd. XLV. Berlin 2010. pp. 175-253.
  • The Mao Bible - the little red book of quotations . In: Helmut Opletal (ed.), The culture of the cultural revolution. Personality Cult and Political Design in China by Mao Zedong. Gent / Vienna 2011. pp. 177–181.
  • Run to the islands / key issue of raw materials. Dispute over the islands in the South China Sea . Part 1 and Part 2 . In: Junge Welt , Berlin: July 2013.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ingo Nentwig died , young world , edition of February 1, 2016, accessed on January 31, 2016
  2. ↑ Ingo Nentwig died ( memento from February 17, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) , obituary by Manuel Kellner on the isl website , January 30, 2016, accessed on February 17, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Nentwig, Ingo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nentwig, Ingo Martin Friedrich Karl (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sinologist and ethnologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 8, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwenningdorf , North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany
DATE OF DEATH January 30, 2016
Place of death Rödinghausen , North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany