Johannes Künzig

Johannes Künzig (born June 28, 1897 in Pülfringen ; † April 10, 1982 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German folklorist and institute founder, whose research mainly concerned the folklore of Germans in and from Eastern and Southeastern Europe.

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Johannes Künzig comes from a long-established farming family in Pülfringen, today part of the Königheim community in the Baden Franconian region, where he was born on June 28, 1897. After village school and only a few Latin lessons with the pastor, he went to grammar school and to the archbishopric Konvikt in Tauberbischofsheim . After a Notabitur in regard to the draft for military service, and, as the convocation had been delayed three months later with a regular high school, he came in 1916 after only four weeks of training at the Western Front. In 1917 he suffered a serious wound in an assault near Verdun, the consequences of which (smashed left wrist) accompanied him throughout his life.

Even in his hometown, where his father was one of the richest songs, the young Künzig's interest in folk songs was aroused. During his time as a soldier at the front, he wrote down the song repertoire of the body grenadiers of the Grand Duke of Baden, to which he belonged. Later, completed with songs from other units, the booklet "Songs of the Baden soldiers" (published in 1927) was created, whose edition B contains a scientific appendix with certificates of origin, the development history of the songs and literature references. With this work he followed the example of his academic teacher John Meier, who in 1916 published the booklet “The German Soldier Song in the Field”.

While still at the military hospital in Würzburg , Künzig began studying German, history and folklore. After two semesters he moved to Freiburg im Breisgau , where he became a student of John Meier , the founder of the German Folk Song Archive . Here he began work on his dissertation on "History of the interest in folk songs in Baden since the Romantic era", which he completed with Friedrich Panzer in Heidelberg, where he had changed. Doctoral and state exams qualified Künzig for teaching at higher schools in the subjects of German and history. Before he got a job as a high school teacher, however, he worked in the Caritas press office in 1923 , and then as a teacher at secondary schools in Freiburg and Lahr until 1937. The material for his dissertation formed the basis for the Baden Folk Song Archive, which he founded in 1923, maintained and expanded for decades and expanded into the Badische Landesstelle für Volkskunde (now: Landesstelle für Volkskunde Freiburg as a branch of the Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe) in 1950. In the twenties, Künzig began to record songs directly from the sources, towards the end of the decade with the help of recording devices (Edison phonograph; Draloston recorder). The conviction that only the sound document created with technical means could authentically record the sung or spoken reality without deforming effects of the recorder, determined all of Künzig's future work from this point on.

Parallel to his folk song interests, the preoccupation with the legends of his native Baden was in the foreground in the twenties. As early as 1923 his “Badische Sagen” were printed, which contained an early attempt at typological arrangement. This publication caused the publisher Diederich to commission Künzig with the preparation of the "Black Forest sagas", which appeared in 1930 and became a standard work of folklore research in the Upper Rhine area; they were reprinted in 1965 and another in 1976.

After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists , he joined the NSDAP , the Nazi teachers 'association and later the Nazi lecturers' association in 1933 . He became a consultant for nationality and homeland at the Nazi organization Kraft durch Freude . Due to his commitment, he was initially provisional professor of folklore at the Karlsruhe University of Teacher Education in 1937 . In May 1940 he received a positive assessment by the Baden Gauleitung: "Here in Karlsruhe, Künzig is known to the Gauleitung ... as well as to the district leadership as a tireless, hard-working employee". Just three years after his appointment as ao. After the end of the war in 1945, he was dismissed as a professor in Freiburg because of his involvement in National Socialism and retired in 1949.

The work on the "Black Forest sagas" required a theoretical examination of the entire topic of "sagas". This resulted in a system of types: “Basic forms and basic layers of folk tales.” The manuscript was available to the philological faculty as a habilitation thesis in 1936 , remained unprinted and most of it was burned during the 1944 bombing. However, Künzig's habilitation and, implicitly, his university career were prevented for political reasons after he was defamed in the Karlsruhe party organ “ Der Führer ” as an ethnologist who was paid for by the church. He summarized the collected legend material in an Upper German narrative archive that encompasses all of southern Germany and that also fell victim to the war in 1944. From the field of folk tales, the two editions of “Unser Ätti tells” (1943 and 1944) should also be mentioned.

At the beginning of the thirties, the previous areas of interest “folk song” and “folk tale” had been added to: dealing with those who emigrated from the Upper Rhine regions to Eastern and Southeastern Europe in the 18th century. Although since the beginning of the 20th century research has increasingly taken note of the folkloric wealth of the Germans settling in the so-called language islands, which cannot be measured by domestic German standards, and German abroad was particularly looked after by the German Caritas Association , in whose headquarters Künzig worked, Künzig himself put it in archives Investigate about emigration. On the trail of the emigrants, he undertook a total of nine research trips to the Romanian Banat between 1930 and 1937 and was able to record a wealth of songs and some of them phonographed. The proceeds of his recordings from 1930 to 1933 flowed into the “German folk songs from the Romanian Banat” printed in 1935, which appeared in the series “Landschaftliche Volkslieder” edited by the German folk song archive. Two research trips that Künzig undertook together with the photographer Hans Retzlaff took the two to the Serbian and Romanian Banat as well as to Transylvania , where he wrote the text for Retzlaff's black and white photos in the book “Deutsche Bauern im Banat” published in 1938. At the same time, there are other comments on photo publications, such as “At the Bohemian Forests in the Banat Ore Mountains” (1937), or “German farmers in 'Swabian Turkey' (Hungary)” (1937). However, special attention was paid to the Alemannic village Saderlach (today Zădăreni ), where Künzig stayed five times during the period mentioned. There, in 1937, to mark the 200th anniversary of the settlement, two films were made: one that shows the celebrations themselves, commemorating the graves of immigrants and the great move, as well as depicting the world of work, and the second one that reproduces a Saderlach wedding . On the same occasion, Johannes Künzig's monograph “Saderlach. An Alemannic village in the Romanian Banat and its original home ”, whose concept of juxtaposing the area of ​​emigration and the place of colonists still serves as a model for the elaboration of hometown monographs.

In 1937, Künzig was appointed professor of folklore at the college for teacher training in Karlsruhe. Here, too, the focus of the lectures and seminars was the folklore of Germans abroad. A study trip with students from Karlsruhe in July 1939 to Slovakia to Oberufer, Limbach and German rehearsals was ended when the war broke out. In 1942 Künzig took over the representation of the subject folklore and the management of the newly created institute for folklore at the Freiburg University . Here, too, the folklore of Germans abroad was a priority. Archival studies in Strasbourg and Paris pointed to the emigration of Alsatians to southern Russia, and in this context he undertook a research trip to the Black Sea region in Crimea and Volhynia in 1942 ; another (1943) was no longer approved. Künzig's sound recordings as well as all other archive material, including the institute library, fell victim to the Allied air raid on Freiburg on November 27, 1944. His development work at Freiburg University was thereby ruined. In 1945 the French occupying power ordered the abolition of the subject of folklore at Freiburg University.

In the first years after the end of the war, Künzig devoted himself to charitable work for the refugees and displaced persons streaming into the country; Caritas offered a corresponding field of activity for this. Help, advice and scientific perception formed a unit, such as u. a. the publications "Our efforts for the displaced" (1947), "Our concern for the homeless" (1947), "The lot of the homeless" (1948) prove. A later work published in 1956: “Urheimat und Kolonistendorf” also belongs in this context, but at the same time follows on from the methodology of the Saderlach monograph.

The fact that the German communities in Eastern and Southeastern Europe were largely disbanded as a result of the war strengthened Künzig's conviction that now, more than before, the folk-cultural goods of the displaced persons and refugees who are now dispersed in Germany and Austria must be documented. The order of the day was to collect, but not the accumulation of more and more readings of existing songs or stories should be sought, but the focus of all efforts had to be the person. With this in mind, he wrote a memorandum, and on his suggestion, at the 1949 Folklore Congress in Freiburg, the constitution of the Folklore Commission of the Expellees, later renamed "Commission for East German Folklore", today "Commission for German and East European Folklore" decided. Künzig was the first to lead the commission, but left it at the General Folklore Congress in Jugenheim a. d. Bergstrasse 1951 Alfons Perlick . It was there that the decision was made to set up a central office for folklore for the displaced, which was to build on the collections already created by Künzig on a private initiative.

During his five-year charitable work between 1945 and 1950, Johannes Künzig came into contact with numerous people from Eastern and Southeastern Europe, which was an important factor for the lively collecting activity that was now beginning. Since he retired in 1949, he was free for this activity and could devote himself fully to it. The entire field research work of the following years in the reception camps, emergency shelters and, later, new settlements across the Federal Republic and Austria as well as the later editing activities and the development work of the institute could only be carried out with the help of an equal employee: From now on, Johannes Künzig was in partnership with Dr. Waltraut Werner, his future wife at the side. In 1950 they were able to purchase a magnetophone - in 1951 the tape recording with the signature “1” with Hungarian-German expellees was made on the Griesheimer Sand (later: St. Stephan). The date also marks the establishment of the institute. At first only occasionally supported, it was funded by the Federal Ministry for Displaced Persons from the spring of 1952, but it was not until 1964, when it was included in the state budget of the state of Baden-Württemberg, that the research facility, now known as the “Institute for East German Folklore”, received a solid financial basis. After Waltraut Werner-Künzig campaigned for the renaming to "Johannes-Künzig-Institute for East German Folklore" in 1982, the institute, whose directors included the folklorist Peter Assion (from 1993), who had been sponsored by Künzig since 1969 , took over from 1983 until 2013 also the name of its founder. Since August 1, 2013 it has been called "Institute for Folklore of Germans in Eastern Europe, Freiburg (IVDE)".

In 1951, Künzig issued a four-page appeal to collect folk cultural goods from the displaced in the form of a questionnaire, which was published in numerous homeland letters and newspapers and met with a good response. The editors of these publications in turn sent their papers to the institute, and based on this, the systematic collection of periodical homeland letters began, of which around 1250 titles with a total of 13,000 volumes are available today.

The focus of the work was initially on collecting. It was Künzig's concern to keep all ethnographically relevant facts that the expellees brought with them in their “intellectual baggage” from being permanently forgotten by recording them. On the more than 1200 tapes he has recorded, there are folk songs and stories of all genres, folk plays, messages about annual customs and customs in the life cycle, religious customs, costumes, folk beliefs and folk medicine, about settlements, work processes and equipment, Hallway designations and messages about the perception of experienced events in recent history from a subjective point of view. Johannes Künzig did not develop a systematic collection strategy; What was taken up was what was available in the given situation of distraction. In this way, sound recordings that were important for research were made, for example the text and melody record of the ballad of "Herr von Braunschweig", which is the only one in the entire German-speaking area, which he also recorded on the record "edited by the German Folk Song Archive and the Institute for East German Folklore in 1961 German folk songs from oral tradition ”. The systematic processing of the sound documents collected over years of work led to the "repertories" displayed in the catalog of works, which open up the recordings either by genre (ballads, legends) or according to geographical aspects (according to localities).

The evaluation of the material collected over the years was now up for publication. It was Künzig's concern to make their “intellectual property” accessible again to the expellees and to convey the culture of the new citizens to the Germans. The title is based on Louis Pinck's “Fading Wise Men”, and in 1958 he published the sound picture book “Before they fade away ... Old German folk tunes from the Bohemian Forest to the Volga”. The book for the four records in the cassette contains not only the photos summarized on 24 panels, but also the lyrics and explanations. Mainly songs from numerous German settlement areas in the east and south-east of the continent are played, but also dances and instrumental pieces. “Before they die away” received a wide response, so that two more editions were necessary. The edition was often used in teaching.

The years after “Before they die away” were devoted to further publications; Above all, they should be authentic record editions. Here, too, Künzig's conviction was always in the foreground that the sounding reality could not be replaced by even the most precise transcripts, if the latter were not to be missed in the scientific evaluation. The only reproduction of what the sources themselves reported (and not the publication of an "adaptation" that flowed through the filter of a composer and professional singer or narrator who came from the intellectual class and was endowed with supposedly sophisticated aesthetic prerogatives) remained for all other record editions the main principle. After the publication of individual records such as “Three Fairy Tales and a Ballad of the 'Blind Sisters'” (1960), “Passionslieder”, “Ballads” and “Legendenlieder” (1966), the Künzig researchers began publishing the series “Sources German Folklore ”, which, in addition to precise text-melody transcriptions, should contain extensive comments. Qualified specialists in the fields of folk song and storytelling research, ethnomusicology or phonetics should take care of the elaboration of transcripts and commentaries. The publications, the titles of which are listed in the list of works below, illustrate either a) genres of popular singing and storytelling: ballads, legends songs, love songs, tantrums, folk reading material, with sources from as many East German settlements as possible being brought in; b) East German settlement areas, such as the Gottschee in Slovenia or the Carpathian- Ukraine; or c) individual sources who are considered to be typical representatives of folk songs or stories from their homeland and therefore also convey a picture of them as a whole, such as the Rosibäs from Hajós, the blind sisters from Gánt, the Dobrudscha German Paul Ruscheinski or the resident Néni from Almáskamarás (the latter had already been the focus of a work by Johannes Künzig, namely in “Urheimat und Kolonistendorf”).

In 1970, Johannes Künzig transferred the management of the institute to his wife, who ran it until she retired in 1989. Even in retirement, he was there every day until shortly before his death and advised the employees in all specialist areas. His collecting activities, the results of which have entered the institute's sound archive and represent its essential archive material, as well as the establishment and development of the institute, received widespread recognition in the professional world. In February 1982 Künzig suffered a stroke that led to his death on April 10, 1982. He was buried in the Bergäcker cemetery in Freiburg- Littenweiler .

honors and awards

• 1954 honorary membership of the country team of the Banat Swabians
• 1955 honorary membership of the workers' education association in Karlsruhe
• 1962 Agnes Miegel badge
• 1962 Corresponding member of the Southeast German Historical Commission
• 1964 Adam Müller Guttenbrunn badge
• 1964 Decoration of Honor of the Association of Swabian-Alemannic Fools' Guilds
• 1972 honorary citizen of Pülfringen
• 1973 Adalbert Stifter Medal
• 1973 Golden Badge of Honor from the Association of Russian Germans
• 1973 Upper Rhine Culture Prize
• 1974 Golden Badge of Honor of the Federation of Homeland and Folk Life
• 1974 Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class
• 1974 Danube Swabian Culture Prize
• 1976 Full member of the Southeast German Historical Commission
• 1976 honorary membership of the Gottscheer Landsmannschaft

Opus

Books and larger monographic works

• History of folk song interest in Baden since the Romantic era. Dissertation Heidelberg 1922, typewritten 133 pp.
• Development history and basic forms of the German folk tale. Unprinted, Habil. 1936 Freiburg, typewritten 376 p.
• Baden legends. Leipzig, Eichblatt 1923. XX, 148 p. (Eichblatts deutscher Sagenschatz, 10).
• German folk songs from the Romanian Banat with pictures and ways. On behalf of the German Folk Song Archive, ed. von ... Pictures by Franz Ferch, [set of melodies by Anton Stingl]. Berlin and Leipzig, Walter de Gruyter 1935. 88 pp. (Landschaftlicher Volkslieder, 28).
• Small folklore articles from five decades. With an afterword by Waltraut Werner. Freiburg 1972. 448 pages and 2 map inserts.
• Songs of the Baden soldiers. Leipzig, Eichblatt 1927. Edition A: VIII, 176 p .; Edition B: with notes, VIII, 208 p. Reprint in: Künzig, Johannes: Small contributions…, p. 9–11,
• Saderlach. An Alemannic village in the Romanian Banat and its original home. Karlsruhe, Müller 1937; XVI, 354 pp. + 31 plates, maps; ²1943, Berlin (Volksforschung, supplements to the Zeitschrift für Volkskunde, 6); Partial print: On the history and folklore of the Alemannic farmers' settlement Saderlach in the Romanian Banat. In: Künzig, Johannes: Small contributions…, pp. 82–150.
• Black Forest legends. Jena, Diederichs 1930; 21965; 31976. XI, 383 pp.
• Our Ätti tells. Fairy tales and tales from the Upper Rhine region. Munich, Wewel 1943; 21944, 96 pp.
• Retzlaff, Hans and Künzig, Johannes: German farmers in the Banat. 80 recordings, text by Johannes Künzig. Berlin, Border and Abroad 1939. 98 pp.
• Lobser Liederhandschrift 1816. Collection of 47 secular country songs. Compiled by Karl Kraus' school teacher in the village of Lobs, in the Falkenau domain. Edited by Johannes Künzig. Cologne, Gerig 1975. (Musical folklore, materials and analyzes, 3).
• The Alemannic-Swabian carnival. Freiburg, Badische Landesstelle für Volkskunde, 1950 .; 21980, Freiburg, Rombach, 80 p., Ill.

Bibliographies

• List of writings published by John Meier 1886–1934. In: Folklore gifts. John Meier for his seventieth birthday. Berlin, Walter de gruyter 1934, pp. 307-314.
• Folk songs, children's rhymes and toys, traditional games, folk dance and folk music in the Silesian tribal area. A critical and referring bibliography. In: Yearbook for Folklore of the Expellees 2.1956, pp. 199–263. Reprinted in: Künzig, Johannes: Small contributions…, pp. 245–309.
• Bibliography of Iglauer Volkskunde. In: Jahrbuch für Volkskunde of the expellees 3.1957, pp. 306–319. Reprinted in: Künzig, Johannes: Small contributions…, pp. 333–346.
• Bibliography of the beautiful stallion folklore. In: Jahrbuch für Volkskunde of the expellees 4.1958 pp. 243–267. Reprinted in: Künzig, Johannes: Small contributions…, pp. 381–406.

Repertories / systematic catalogs

• Johannes Künzig; Waltraut Werner: Folk ballads and narrative songs - a repertory of our sound recordings. Edited in collaboration with Gottfried habenicht. Freiburg 1975, 288 pp.
• Johannes Künzig; Waltraut Werner: Legendenlieder - a repertory of our sound recordings. Edited in collaboration with Gottfried habenicht. Freiburg 1977, 172 pp.
• Johannes Künzig, Waltraut Werner-Künzig: Almáskamarás / Hungarian Banat. A repertory of our sound recordings, edited by Gottfried habenicht. Freiburg 1983.
• Johannes Künzig, Waltraut Werner-Künzig: Gánt / Hungarian Shield Mountains. A repertory of our sound recordings, edited by Gottfried habenicht. Freiburg 1983.
• Johannes Künzig, Waltraut Werner-Künzig: Kisfalud / Yugoslav Baranya. A repertory of our sound recordings, edited by Gottfried habenicht. Freiburg 1983.
• Johannes Künzig, Waltraut Werner-Künzig: Kula / Poscheg district, Slavonia. A repertory of our sound recordings, edited by Gottfried habenicht. Freiburg 1983.

Record editions

Cassettes with accompanying books

• Before they fade away ... Old German folk tunes from the Bohemian Forest to the Volga. With 4 records and 24 plates. Freiburg 1958; 21960; 31977, 80 pp.
• Gottscheer folk songs from oral tradition. Three long-playing records with text booklet. Collected and edited by Johannes Künzig and Waltraut Werner. Freiburg 1967. (Sources of German Folklore, 1).
• Hungarian-German storytellers I: The Rosibäs from Hajós. Three long-playing records with text booklet. Collected and edited by Johannes Künzig and Waltraut Werner. Freiburg 1967. (Sources of German Folklore, 2).
• Hungarian-German fairy tale storytellers II: The "Blind Madel" from Gant. Three long-playing records with text and commentary books. Collected and edited by Johannes Künzig and Waltraut Werner. Comments: Dietz-Rüdiger Moser. Freiburg 1971. (Sources of German Folklore, 3).
• Ballads from East German tradition. Three long-playing records with text and commentary books. Collected and edited by Johannes Künzig and Waltraut Werner. Transcriptions and comments: Hartmut Braun and Dietz-Rüdiger Moser. Freiburg 1969. (Sources of German Folklore, 4).
• Legendary songs from oral tradition. Three long-playing records with text and commentary books. Collected and edited by Johannes Künzig and Waltraut Werner. Transcriptions and comments: Hartmut Braun and Dietz-Rüdiger Moser. Freiburg 1971. (Sources of German Folklore, 5).
• Variations from oral tradition. Three long-playing records with text and commentary books. Collected and edited by Johannes Künzig and Waltraut Werner. Comments: Hannjost Lixfeld. Freiburg 1973. (Sources of German Folklore, 8).
• From the songs of the Dobrudscha German 'singer' Paul Ruscheinski. Three long-playing records in cassette with text and commentary book. Collected and edited by Johannes Künzig and Waltraut Werner. Melody transcriptions and commentaries: Gottfried habenicht. Freiburg 1977. (Sources German Folklore, 6).
• Folk songs from German Mokra, a forest workers' settlement in the Carpathian Ukraine. Four long-playing records with text and commentary books. Collected and edited by Johannes Künzig and Waltraut Werner-Künzig in collaboration with Gottfried habenicht. Freiburg 1978. (Sources German Folklore, 9).
• Love songs from the Bohemian Forest to the Volga. . Three long-playing records in cassette with text and commentary book. Collected and edited by Johannes Künzig and Waltraut Werner-Künzig. Comments: Rolf Wilhelm Brednich and Gottfried habenicht. Freiburg 1979. (Sources German Folklore, 10).
• Songs and stories from Resi Klemm from Almáskamarás in the Hungarian Banat. Four long-playing records in cassette with text and commentary book. Collected and edited by Johannes Künzig and Waltraut Werner-Künzig. Song transcriptions and commentaries: Gottfried habenicht; Comments on the stories: Michael Belgrader. Freiburg 1980. (Sources German Folklore, 11).
• Count and nun. 18 examples of a ballad from oral tradition. Freiburg [1988]. 16 p. Texts, melody transcriptions, comments by Gottfried habenicht. (Sources German folklore, 12).
• Oral reading material. Four long-playing records in cassette with text and commentary book. Authentic sound recordings 1959–1966 by Johannes Künzig and Waltraut Werner-Künzig. Comment: Leander Petzoldt . Freiburg 1978. (Sources of German Folklore, 7).

Single records

• Passion songs from oral tradition. Authentic recordings 1952–1963 by Johannes Künzig and Waltraut Werner. Freiburg, Volkskunde-Tonarchiv 1966. (Record 6).
• From Christmas to Epiphany. Games and Recruits, 1–2. Authentic sound recordings 1953–1969 by Johannes Künzig and Waltraut Werner. Freiburg, Volkskunde-Tonarchiv, (records 25-27).
• From Christmas to New Years. Games and recruiting, 3. Authentic sound recordings by Johannes Künzig and Waltraut Werner. Freiburg, Volkskunde-Tonarchiv, (record 27).
• Three fairy tales and a ballad of the "blind sisters" from Gant, Hungarian Shield Mountains. Authentic sound recordings by Johannes Künzig and Waltraut Werner. Freiburg, Volkskunde-Tonarchiv 1960. (Record 5).
• Legendary songs from oral tradition. Authentic sound recordings by Johannes Künzig and Waltraut Werner. Freiburg, Volkskunde-Tonarchiv 1966. (Record 7).
• Ballads from oral tradition. Authentic sound recordings by Johannes Künzig and Waltraut Werner. Freiburg, Volkskunde-Tonarchiv 1966. (Record 8).
• Experience stories from the Slavonia German village of Sarwasch. . Authentic sound recordings by Johannes Künzig and Waltraut Werner. Freiburg, Volkskunde-Tonarchiv 1973. (Record 32).
• From the sacred songs of the Dobrudscha German Paul Ruscheinski. Authentic sound recordings by Johannes Künzig and Waltraut Werner. Freiburg, Volkskunde-Tonarchiv 1976. (Record 48).
• Christmas mass, Christmas carols and games from Sarwasch in Slavonia. Authentic sound recordings by Johannes Künzig and Waltraut Werner. Freiburg, Volkskunde-Tonarchiv 1973. (Record 31).

Film documentaries

Films before World War II

• Carrying Easter fire in St. Peter. 1937
• The Reutbergwirtschaft in the Black Forest. 1937.
• The Pentecost King in Varnhalt (Central Baden). 1937.
• The settlement anniversary of the Alemannic community Saderlach in the Romanian Banat. 1937.
• Green seed production in Pülfringen (building land in Baden). 1938.

Films from 1956, together with Waltraut Werner

• The wedding of the daughter of a new settler in Hanauerland, celebrated according to Banat tradition. (Camera: Fritz Aly and Arnold Fanck ). 1956.
• Eastern farmers on new farms. (Camera: Fritz Aly). 1957.
• Corpus Christi procession in the traditional village of St. Peter / Black Forest. (Camera: Fritz Aly). 1958.
• English morris dancers. Recorded during their visit to the Kaiserstuhl. (Camera: Fritz Aly). 1960.
• Palm consecration in Waldkirch. (Camera: Fritz Aly). 1960.
• The “slapping” in Buchenbach. (Camera: Fritz Aly). 1962.
• The "greed" in Vögisheim - a Markgräfler common fasting practice. (Camera: Fritz Aly). 1962.
• "Hissgier" and "Uffertbrut" in Zunzingen. (Camera: Hans Witte). 1962.
• Carol singing in Zunsweier near Offenburg. (Camera: Fritz Aly). 1963.
• "Hissgier" and "Uffertbrut" in Seefelden. (Camera: Hans Witte). 1965.
• "The production of a berry palm" in Peterstal / Renchtal. (Camera: Hans Witte). 1965.
• Production of a "splendid palm" in Ebnet near Freiburg. (Camera: Hans Witte). 1965.
• The "Easter egg scratching" in the Zips. (Camera: Hans Witte). 1965.
• A Hungarian German tells the fairy tale of the fear not "Grünhösler". (Black and white sound film 16 mm; camera: Hans Witte). 1965.
• The handling of the Bigg donkey on St. Nicholas Eve in Unterentersbach. (Camera: Hans Witte). 1965.
• The flower carpets of the Budaörser on Corpus Christi day in Oftersheim near Schwetzingen. (Camera: Hans Witte). 1966.
• The “ death carrying out ” in Boxtal and Rauenberg (Odenwald). (Camera: Hans Witte). 1967.
• Dealing with the Rätschenbuben in Vöhrenbach (Black Forest). (Camera: Hans Witte). 1967.

Films by Johannes Künzig and Waltraut Werner in collaboration with the Institute for Scientific Film in Göttingen

• The Überlinger Sword Dance. (Color sound film). 1962.
• The carnival of Elzacher Schuddig. (Color sound film). 1963.
• The Pfingstbubenspiel in Fußbach / Kinzigtal. (Black and white sound film). 1964.
• Green spelled harvest in the Franconian region of Baden. (Color film). 1964.
• Easter week ratcheting in Ebnet near Freiburg. (Black and white sound film). 1965
• The manufacture of a "ratchet" in Ebnet near Freiburg. (Black-and-white film). Booklet: Gottfried habenicht. 1965.
• Traditional gold embroidery in Breitnau / Black Forest. (Color film). 1965.
• The Gangolfritt in Neudenau. (Color sound film). 1967.
• Egerland lace making. (Black and white film) 1967.

Literature on Johannes Künzig

Biographical

• Waltraut Werner-Künzig: Johannes Künzig on his 80th birthday. In: Jahrbuch für Ostdeutsche Volkskunde 20.1977, pp. 325–345. [Also as a separate date: Freiburg 1977, 24 pp.]
• Waltraut Werner- [Künzig]: Bibliography of the folklore publications by Johannes Künzig 1922–1967. Freiburg 1967, 36 p. [Afterword: Künzig biography].
• Waltraut Werner-Künzig: Johannes Künzig and his work. Reflections - Reviews. In: Drobek, Felicitas (Ed.): Poland in Germany - Germans in Poland. Lectures at the conference of the Johannes Künzig Institute for East German Folklore from 12./13. June 1997. Freiburg, Johannes Künzig Institute for East German Folklore 1999, pp. 19–42, Polish Res.
• Hans Trümpy: Laudation on presentation of the Upper Rhine Culture Prize of the Goethe Foundation Basel, on December 13, 1973, pp. 7–12.
• Peter Assion: Johannes Künzig. In: Badische Biographien , New Series, Vol. 2, ed. By Bernd Ottnad. Stuttgart 1987, pp. 174-177.
• Gottfried habenicht: Johannes Künzig and the Banat. Ms. 2007.

Biographical data in all articles about the Johannes Künzig Institute for East German Folklore

• Johannes Künzig: Central Office for Folklore of the Expellees. In: Yearbook for Folklore of the Displaced People 1.1955, pp. 203-208.
• Johannes Künzig: From the work of the Central Office for Folklore of the Expellees. In: Jahrbuch für Volkskunde of the expellees 3.1957, pp. 255–259.
• Johannes Künzig: From the early stage of the Institute for East German Folklore. From work reports 1953–1956. In: Künzig, Johannes: Small folklore contributions from five decades. With an afterword by Waltraut Werner. Freiburg 1972, pp. 440-443. Reprinted in: Künzig, Johannes: Small contributions…, pp. 245–319.
• Johannes Künzig: Institute for East German Folklore. In: Yearbook for Folklore of the Expellees 5.1959–60, pp. 273–275.
• Waltraut Werner-Künzig: The institute for folklore research of Germans from Eastern and Southeastern Europe. Founded by Johannes Künzig. In: The specialist advisor for displaced persons, refugees, war victims. Bad Godesberg 26.1973 No. 2, pp. 89-100.
• Waltraut Werner-Künzig: Johannes Künzig Institute for East German Folklore. In: Yearbook for East German Folklore 29.1986, pp. 381–389.
• Gottfried habenicht: The Johannes Künzig Institute for East German Folklore. Review - inventory - outlook. In: Drobek, Felicitas (Ed.): Poland in Germany - Germans in Poland. Lectures at the conference of the Johannes Künzig Institute for East German Folklore from 12./13. June 1997. Freiburg, Johannes Künzig Institute for East German Folklore 1999, pp. 43–57, Polish Res.
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