Ingrid Buck

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Ingrid Buck (born December 10, 1913 in Aurich ; † May 15, 1996 ibid) was a German folklorist.

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Ingrid Buck was a daughter of Albrecht Neddersen and had two younger sisters. Her father worked as a general practitioner and surgeon and was very well known in the Aurich region. She often traveled with her father to see his patients and got to know the country and its people. Later she was known as “Neddersen sien Ollste” and was often able to benefit from her father's reputation and trustworthiness.

Buck received a secondary education and married the district judge Ernst-August Buck, with whom she had a daughter. Her husband died in 1944 from a war wound. As a single mother with a young daughter, Buck had never learned a trade. Her father gave her the task of organizing the large estate of his friend Johann de Pottere, who was the last member of a well-known East Frisian family. This established contact with the East Frisian landscape , which had inherited the estate.

In 1953 Buck attended a home care course in the East Frisian landscape, which became the basis for her subsequent work as a folklorist. The consultant Martha Bringemeier from the Folklore Commission in Westphalia encouraged Buck to set up a folklore archive for East Friesland. This task was taken over by a working group led by landscape councilor Jan van Dieken. Buck had been part of the group since its inception and took over the day-to-day business. For this work she first learned at the Folklore Commission in Münster. Martha Bringmeier advised her to stay in Sweden, where folklorists at the time were exemplary and trend-setting. The Swedes tried to classify events in space, time and social histories, while the National Socialists had misused folklore and tried, following a concept of continuity, to trace facts back to Germanism.

In the summer of 1954 Buck visited the universities of Lund, Gothenburg, Uppsala and Stockholm and studied the collections and exhibitions there. Similar to the Swedish working method and in exchange with the Folklore Commission in Münster, questionnaires on several topics of folk culture were created in East Frisia. This included customs in the course of life and the year, clothing, nutrition, living conditions, handicrafts, agriculture and means of transport. Many members of the working groups from all over East Friesland contributed over several years to the creation of an extensive archive.

In 1968 Jan van Dieken left the committee. Buck succeeded him as the first woman elected landscape councilor. Thus she also headed the folklore working group, which not only collected data, but also took care of the practical maintenance of customs. She attended numerous events, Easter bonfires and maypole setting, bridal paths, martinis singing, Boßel and Kloot shooting competitions. She also started ice skating on the Great Sea and organized them as well as spinning courses.

Buck provided information on the results of the questionnaires in the form of small exhibitions, published several brochures and gave many lectures. There was also a picture archive created by her, a film about the cultivation of buckwheat in East Friesland, a dialect index and a large collection of material assets. The archive is now in the library of the East Frisian Landscape, the material collection went to several museums in East Frisia, mostly to the Historical Museum in Aurich and the East Frisian Agricultural Museum in Campen .

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SURNAME Buck, Ingrid
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Neddersen, Altje Friederike Ingrid Clara Margarethe (birth name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German folklorist
DATE OF BIRTH December 10, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Aurich
DATE OF DEATH May 15, 1996
Place of death Aurich