Ivo Strecker

Ivo Strecker (born May 11, 1940 in Magdeburg ) is a German ethnologist .

Since the 1970s he and his wife, the ethnologist and filmmaker Jean Lydall , have been doing extensive field research with the Hamar people in southern Ethiopia . In addition to an extensive range of scientific documents, this work also resulted in films and audio documents. From 1984 until his retirement in 2005, Strecker was Professor of Social Anthropology at the Institute for Social Anthropology and African Studies at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz . During this time he worked as a CIM professor at Addis Ababa University (AAU) and set up the South Omo Research Center and Museum (SORC) in Jinka, with the support of the Max Planck Institute for Ethnology in Halle an der Saale , and became its first director. In 2013/14 he was Herder Visiting Professor at Mekelle University in Tigray, Ethiopia, and then became Professor of Ethnology at the Arba Minch University in southern Ethiopia (2015).

family

He is a son of the painter Sigmund Strecker .

Works (selection)

• The Hamar of Southern Ethiopia. Vol. I. Work Journal (together with Jean Lydall), Hohenschäftslarn: Renner, 1979
• The Hamar of Southern Ethiopia. Vol. II. Baldambe Explains. (together with Jean Lydall), Hohenschäftslarn: Renner, 1979
• The Hamar of Southern Ethiopia. Vol. III. Conversations in Dambaiti, Hohenschäftslarn: Renner, 1979
• The jump over the cattle, ethnographic film, 16mm, 45.min., Color. Göttingen: Institute for Scientific Film, 1979
• Hamar music, ethnographic sound documentation (record). Double album with commentary text. Berlin-Dahlem: Museum of Ethnology, Ethnic Music Department, 1979
• Baldambe speaks: An attempt at a contemporary ethnology, ethnographic sound documentation, 180 min. Berlin: SFB, 1974

Web links

• Literature by and about Ivo Strecker in the catalog of the German National Library
• Interview with Ivo Strecker from 2008 (PDF file; 290 kB)
• Institute for Ethnology and African Studies at the University of Mainz