Karl Braun (ethnologist)

Karl Braun (* 1952 in Wunsiedel ) is a German ethnologist .

Live and act

Karl Braun studied from 1974 to 1980 empirical cultural studies and German at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen and graduated in 1980 with a master's degree . From 1981 to 1984 he studied comparative religion in Tübingen. From 1985 to 1990 he taught as a DAAD lecturer at the University of Extremadura in Cáceres in Spain. In 1992 he became a member of the social science faculty of the University of Tübingen with Hermann Bausinger with the work Other bodies, not yet sexuality. PhD on the hermeneutics of premodern anthropology . From 1992 to 1997 he taught at the Charles University in Prague . In 1997 he completed his habilitation with the thesis bull runs. Continuity and change in the history and culture of Spain at the Philipps University of Marburg . From 1998 to 2002 he held substitute professorships at the universities of Frankfurt am Main , Marburg and Göttingen . In 2002 he was appointed professor for European ethnology at the Philipps University in Marburg. From 2006 to 2008 he was Vice Dean and from 2008 to 2009 Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Philosophy.

From 1999 to 2005 Karl Braun was a member of the board of the Society for Ethnography in Berlin and from 2005 to 2007 he was the museum representative of the Philipps University of Marburg. He is a member of the Collegium Carolinum Munich and the Johann Gottfried Herder Research Council in Marburg. Since 2011 he has been chairman of the German Society for Folklore .

Karl Braun's research and publication activities focus on Spanish cultural anthropology , the history of sexuality and gender research , folklore of the Bohemian-Moravian region and the everyday history of Germany.

Fonts

• Different bodies, no sexuality yet. On the hermeneutics of premodern anthropology. Dissertation. University of Tübingen 1991.
• Onania disease. Physical anxiety and the beginnings of modern sexuality in the 18th century. Campus, Frankfurt am Main 1995, ISBN 3-593-35387-3 .
• Bull runs. Continuity and change in the history and culture of Spain. Habilitation thesis. University of Marburg 1997.
• The death of the bull. Festival and ritual in Spain. Beck, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-406-42823-1 .
• ¡Toro! Spain and the bull. Wagenbach, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-8031-2383-6 .
• Luisenburg. a forgotten landscape garden of early romanticism. Jonas, Marburg 2005, ISBN 3-89445-349-4 ( review by Michael Niedermeier ).
• The Wunsiedler Friedhof and other border stories. Edition Sonnberg, Vienna 2015, ISBN 978-3-9502043-6-0 .

Editing

• "They look for the gold like pigs". The conquest of Mexico-Tenochtitlan from an Indian perspective. Compiled and edited from images and texts by Bernardino de Sahagún . AS, Tübingen 1982, ISBN 3-88773-010-0 .
• Martin Scharfe : Signatures of Culture. Jonas, Marburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-89445-459-3 .
• with Claus-Marco Dieterich, Christian Schönholz: Times of upheaval. Epistemology & methodology in self-reflection. Documentation of the dgv university conference 2010 in Marburg. Friends of the Marburg Cultural Studies Research and European Ethnology, Marburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-8185-0504-2 .
• with Claus-Marco Dieterich, Angelareiber: Materialization of culture. Discourses, things, practices. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-8260-5594-2 .
• (Mithrsg.): Times of peace. On the obstinacy of January 1913 to July 1914. Jonas, Marburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-89445-492-0 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Karl Braun in the catalog of the German National Library
• Karl Braun on the website of the University of Marburg