Karl Hohensinner

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Karl Hohensinner (* 1967 ) is an Austrian Germanist , historian , cultural mediator and writer living in Grein . He is also involved in local politics and monument protection .

Education

Hohensinner studied German literature and history at the University of Vienna from 1985 to 1993. He then completed a doctorate same place and in 1997 with a dissertation on the settlement name in the northeastern Upper Austria (judicial districts Freistadt and Unterweissbach) for Doctor philosophiae doctorate. Before that, he had already dedicated his thesis to the place and court names of the Grein judicial district .

Scientific activity

Hohensinner's main areas of work include name studies (especially place and family names) and the history of Upper Austria. In addition, he researches and publishes in the fields of the history of time and mentality , also primarily with reference to this state. For example, he is leading a research project on National Socialism in Strudengau , in the course of which video documentations were created and exhibitions were organized. He held several German courses at the University of Vienna. From 2013 to 2017 he headed the FWF research project Etymologies of surnames on -inger in Upper Austria.

further activities

Hohensinner is also active in local politics and has been a member of Grein's municipal council since 2009. 2009-2015 he held the function of the city's cultural advisor. He has also been involved in the protection of historical monuments in Upper Austria for many years. He successfully campaigned for the preservation of the medieval toll tower in Sarmingstein .

Publications

Scientific and popular science publications or editions

Monographs

  • Legends from the Perg district (= The Upper Austrian Book of Legends 4). Linz 2018.
  • Danube legends from the Strudengau. (= The Upper Austrian Book of Legends 2). Linz 2011.
  • Surname Atlas of Upper Austria. Names and professions. Linz 2011, ISBN 978-3-902226-52-5 , 357 pages.
  • with P. Wiesinger with the collaboration of H. Scheuringer and M. Schefbäck: The place names of the political district Urfahr-Umgebung (Middle Mühlviertel) (= place names book of the province of Upper Austria 7). Vienna 2006.
  • with P. Wiesinger with the collaboration of H. Scheuringer and M. Schefbäck: The place names of the political districts Perg and Freistadt (Eastern Mühlviertel) (= place name book of the province of Upper Austria 11). Vienna 2003.
  • with R. Reutner and P. Wiesinger: The place names of the political districts Kirchdorf an der Krems, Steyr-Land and Steyr-Stadt (south-eastern Traunviertel) (= place name book of the province of Upper Austria 10). Vienna 2001.
  • The settlement names in the north-easternmost Upper Austria (judicial districts Freistadt and Unterweissenbach). Dissertation, University of Vienna, Vienna 1997.
  • The settlement names and farm names in the judicial district of Grein in Upper Austria. Diploma thesis, University of Vienna, Vienna 1993.

Dependent publications

  • with H. Bergmann: Austrian surnames contrasting. In: M. Slíz / JB Walkowiak (eds.): Onomastica Uralica 13, 2019, pp. 5–25.
  • with R. Harnisch: The onymic interfix -ets- in Upper Austrian place names. Historical-geographical inventory and interpretation as the product of a morphological reanalysis. In: Contributions to the 7th Dialectological Symposium in the Bavarian Forest, Hetzenbach, April 28-30, 2017 , edited by Ch. Ferstl et al. Regensburg 2019, pp. 7–40.
  • The onomastic simplex and basic word Schlag / -schlag. In: H. Bichlmeier / H.-P. Pohl: files of the XXXII. Onomatological Symposium in Kals am Großglockner , 2018, pp. 109–138.
  • with B. Wöss: Translatable first names: German - Czech. In: Multiple names between linguistics, linguistic history and language politics (= Austrian name research, supplements 6), 2018, pp. 253-272.
  • Names in travelogues. In: Blätter für Oberdeutsche Namenforschung 54, 2017, pp. 108–119.
  • with B. Wöss: New mapping options based on the Franziszeische cadastre in the federal state of Upper Austria. In: Bichlmeier, Harald / Pohl, Heinz-Dieter (ed.): Files of the XXX. Onenological symposium in Kals am Großglockner (June 11-14, 2015) , 2016, pp. 177–196 (PDF online https://stifterhaus.at/fileadmin/user_upload/Downloads/Aufsatz_Kartierung.pdf ).
  • with B. Wöss: place names on mountain and mountain names in Upper Austria. In: P. Anreiter / G. Rampl (ed.): Mountain and Flurnamen in Bavaria and Austria (= Innsbruck contributions to onomastics 16), 2016, pp. 55–82.
  • Contemporaries of "Mother Courage" - travelers passing through and their names in Grein on the Danube 1624 to 1644. In: D. Kremer (ed.): Fremde Namen (= Onomastica Lipsiensia. Leipziger Studies on Name Research 12), 2016, p. 185– 214 (PDF online: https://stifterhaus.at/fileadmin/user_upload/Downloads/Aufsatz_Hohensinner_Graser_2016.pdf ).
  • Non-autochthonous family names in Austria: Is there a “Bohemian pattern” when mapping family names? In: Intercultural Linguistics as a Research Orientation in Central European German Studies (= Contributions to Intercultural German Studies 8), 2017, pp. 63–80.
  • "Danube trips". Names as a feature in the text search. In: IDE. Journal for German Lessons in Science and School 2/2017, pp. 76–83.
  • with B. Wöss: 'For the trees ...' - The unknown singers. In: C. Hough / D. Izdebska (eds.): Names and Their Environment. Proceedings of the 25th International Congress of Onomastic Sciences, Glasgow, 25–29 August 2014 3. Glasgow, 2015, pp. 95–108,
  • with B. Wöss: family name on -inger in Upper Austria. In: Österreichische Namenforschung 40– 41, 2015, pp. 11–30.
  • Field names in Upper Austria - historical sources, experiences and new research perspectives. In: B. Aehnlich / E. Meineke (ed.): Names and Cultural Landscapes (= Onomastica Lipsiensia. Leipzig Studies on Name Research 10), 2015, Leipzig, pp. 105–157.
  • Czech name forms for Austrian place names. In: W. Janka / R. Harnisch (ed.): Names in border areas. 7th colloquium of the working group for Bavarian-Austrian name research (Passau, September 27/28, 2012) . Regensburg 2015, pp. 67– 82.
  • The history of the settlement in northern Upper Austria. In: Catalog of the Upper Austrian State Exhibition 2013. Old traces. New Paths State Exhibition Upper Austria & South Bohemia 1. Linz 2013, Trauner Verlag, 2013.
  • Council minutes from Waldhausen in Upper Austria - Possibilities for knowledge through the digitization of early modern files. In: R. Harnisch (ed.): Currents in the development of dialects and their exploration . Regensburg, 2013. p. 356.
  • Onomatology in Upper Austria with examples from the area between Atter and Traunsee. In: K. Petermayr and St. Gaisbauer (eds.): Höllgang, results of field research around the Höllengebirge (= Upper Austrian writings on folk music 7). Linz 2008, pp. 189-195.
  • Observations on the current dialect development in the Austrian Danube region - language change versus language change. In: R. Muhr u. a. (Ed.): Ten years of research into Austrian German: 1995–2005. A balance sheet (= Austrian German. Language of the present 10). Frankfurt am Main u. a. 2006, pp. 217-244.
  • Upper Austrian family name geography, focus on Hausruck. In: K. Petermayr and St. Gaisbauer (eds.): Draft, language and music, results of field research in Hausruck (= Upper Austrian writings on folk music 4). Linz 2006, pp. 35-47.
  • Name changes for water bodies on the northern edge of Upper Austria. In: A. Greule et al. (Ed.): Water names in Bavaria and Austria, 3rd colloquium of the working group for Bavarian-Austrian name research. (= Regensburg studies on name research 1), Regensburg 2005, pp 85–94.
  • Imperative surnames from Upper Austria. In: Chr. M. Pabst (ed.): Language as a system and process, commemorative publication for Günter Lipold on his 60th birthday. Vienna 2005, pp. 178–191.
  • with P. Wiesinger: The place name book of the province of Upper Austria. To the presentation of volume 7. The place names of the political districts Kirchdorf an der Krems, Steyr-land and Steyr-Stadt. In: St. Gaisbauer and H. Scheuringer (eds.): Linzerschnitte, contributions to the 8th Bavarian-Austrian Dialectologists Day in Linz, at the same time the 3rd workshop on language and dialect in Upper Austria, in Linz, September 2001 (= writings on literature and language in Upper Austria 8). Linz 2004, pp. 627-633.
  • Etymology and folk etymology on the basis of the place name book of the province of Upper Austria. Districts Freistadt and Perg. In: Yearbook of the Upper Austrian Museum Association, Society for Regional Studies 148, Part I, Treatises, Linz 2003, pp. 65–115 ( PDF on ZOBODAT ).
  • Place names and settlement history in cleared areas in Upper Austria's Mühlviertel. In: P. Ernst et al: place names and settlement history, files from the symposium in Vienna from 28. – 30. September 2002. Heidelberg 2002, pp. 201-217.
  • To date the Middle Bavarian -ch-Schwundes based on the documented tradition of the settlement names on mhd. -Ach in Upper Austria. In: Journal for Dialectology and Linguistics 69, Stuttgart 2002, pp. 129ff.
  • The Upper Austrian field names collection. In: Yearbook of the Upper Austrian Museum Association, Gesellschaft für Landeskunde 147, 1/2002, pp. 385–394 ( PDF on ZOBODAT ).
  • with Stefan Mandlmayr: The contemporary historical research project in Grein, Upper Austria. In: Documentation archive of the Austrian resistance (ed.): Yearbook 2000. Vienna 2000, pp. 87–115.
  • Types of settlement names in the district of Freistadt, Upper Austria. In: Österreichische Namenforschung 28, Vienna 2000, Issue 1, pp. 39–55.
  • The Enlightenment in Biedermeier - The Late Years of Amand Berghofer. In: Austria in History and Literature 43. Vienna 1999, Issue 1, pp. 36–46.
  • with Klaus Dürrschmid: Franz Xaver Amand Berghofer (1745–1825), in: Literature and Criticism. 303/304, 1996, pp. 101-109.

Editions

  • with K. Dürrschmid: Texts from the work of FXA Berghofer. Grein 1996.

Fiction

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl Hohensinner: The last house . Linz 2004 (blurb)
  2. ↑ https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3858-5182 Entry on orcid.org
  3. ↑ Grein experiences Greater Germany. Linz 1999 ( https://www.mediathek.at/katalogsuche/suche/detail/atom/106914/pool/BIBL/ ); The upheaval. The US Army liberates Grein ( https://www.mediathek.at/katalogsuche/suche/detail/atom/536866/pool/BIBL/ ); Grein saw the Russians come. Linz 2002 ( https://www.mediathek.at/katalogsuche/suche/detail/atom/536864/pool/BIBL/ ); Gymnastics to the point. Grein 1928–1938 ( https://www.mediathek.at/katalogsuche/suche/detail/atom/536865/pool/BIBL/ )
  4. ↑ https://www.nachrichten.at/oberoesterreich/muehlviertel/Turnen-und-Heldensagen-Wie-die-NSDAP-in-Grein-Fuss-fassen-konnte;art69,349408
  5. ↑ https://www.mein Bezirk.at/perg/c-lokales/hitlers-plaene-fuer-grein_a919224
  6. ↑ https://www.univie.ac.at/germanistik/karl-hohensinner/
  7. ↑ https://pf.fwf.ac.at/de/wissenschaft-konkret/project-finder?search%5Bwhat%5D=Karl+Hohensinner&search%5Bpromotion_category_id%5D%5B%5D=&search%5Bcall%5D=&search%5Bproject_number % 5D = & search% 5Bdecision_board_ids% 5D = & search% 5Bproject_title% 5D = & search% 5Blead_firstname% 5D = & search% 5Blead_lastname% 5D = & search% 5Bresearch_place_kind% 5D% 5B% 5D = & & search% 5Binstitute_name.% 5D = & search% 5Binstitute_name % 5Bend_date% 5D = & search% 5Bgrant_years% 5D% 5B% 5D = & search% 5Bstatus_id% 5D = & search% 5Bscience_discipline_id% 5D = & search% 5Bper_page% 5D = 10 # search-results
  8. ↑ https://www.nachrichten.at/oberoesterreich/muehlviertel/Es-gibt-noch-Hoffnung-fuer-den-Mautturm;art69,1136610
  9. ↑ Walter Aspernig: Karl Hohensinner, Family Atlas of Upper Austria. In: Yearbook of the Upper Austrian Museum Association. 156, Linz 2011, pp. 238–239 ( PDF on ZOBODAT ; review).
personal data
SURNAME Hohensinner, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian Germanist, historian, local researcher and local politician
DATE OF BIRTH 1967