Kaspar Maase

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Kaspar Maase (born June 8, 1946 in Düsseldorf ) is a German folklorist .

Life

Kaspar Maase is a grandson of the Düsseldorf lawyer, pacifist and opposition activist Friedrich Maase (1878–1959). His mother was a doctor, his father a businessman. Both parents were communists. He studied German , art history , sociology and cultural theory at the universities in Munich and East Berlin. He joined the DKP and wrote for the magazines Kürbiskern und tendenzen . He broke off a dissertation with Walter Müller-Seidel . 1971 doctorate he at Berlin's Humboldt University with theDissertation on the conception and perception of culture of the SPD since 1955 . Freelance work as a publishing editor , journalist and lecturer followed. From 1980 to 1989 he worked at the Institute for Marxist Studies and Research (IMSF) in Frankfurt am Main , and between 1990 and 1994 as an employee at the Hamburg Institute for Social Research . In 1992 he completed his habilitation in cultural studies at the University of Bremen . In 1995 he took over the professorship at the Ludwig Uhland Institute for Empirical Cultural Studies (LUI) at the University of Tübingen for two years . From 1997 to 2000 he worked on a DFG project at the Institute for European Ethnology at Humboldt University. He has been a research assistant at the Ludwig-Uhland-Institut since 1998 and an adjunct professor since 2006 .

Maase mainly works on the history of mass culture since the 19th century, on movements against popular arts in the 20th and 21st centuries, on Americanization and on aesthetic experiences in everyday life .

Awards

  • 2009: State teaching award Baden-Württemberg in the field of universities for his project "Tü amo!" (see publication)

Publications (selection)

as an author

  • On the SPD's conception and perception of culture since 1955. Berlin 1971.
  • Reading interests of workers in the FRG. On reading behavior, reading interests and the development of needs in the working class of the Federal Republic , Cologne: Pahl-Rugenstein, 1982
  • BRAVO America. Research into youth culture in the Federal Republic of Germany in the fifties. Hamburg 1992 (series of publications by the Hamburg Institute for Social Research).
  • Limitless pleasure. The rise of mass culture 1850–1970. Frankfurt am Main 1997 (Fischer Volume 60143; European History), 4th edition 2007, ISBN 3596601436
  • What makes popular culture political? Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften 2010.
  • The law of the ordinary. About popular culture. Tübingen: TVV 2011.
  • The children of mass culture. Controversy about filth and trash since the empire. Frankfurt / New York: Campus 2012.
  • Popular culture research. An introduction. Bielefeld: Transcript 2019. ISBN 978-3-8376-4598-9 . Full text as PDF: https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-4598-9/populaerkulturforschung/?number=978-3-8394-4598-3

as editor

  • (with Bernd Jürgen Warneken): Underworlds of Culture: Topics and Theories of Folklore Cultural Studies , Cologne [u. a.] Böhlau, 2003, ISBN 3412157007
  • The beauties of the popular. Aesthetic experience of the present. Frankfurt a. M./New York: Campus, 2008.
  • Tü amo !: Italian in everyday German life. A local study in Tübingen, Tübinger Vereinigung für Volkskunde eV, 2009
  • (with Christoph Bareither and Mirjam Nast): entertainment and fun. Contributions of European Ethnology to Popular Culture Research. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2013, ISBN 978-3-8260-5183-8

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ LUI / TVV Newsletter 18 (April 2006)  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. of the Tübinger Vereinigung für Volkskunde eV (TVV) and Ludwig Uhland Institute for Empirical Cultural Studies, accessed on November 19, 2009@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / tvv-verlag.de  
  2. ↑ Michael Rutschky: Towards the end. Diary entries 1996–2009. Berlin 2019. p. 75.
  3. ↑ Michael Rutschky: Towards the end. Diary entries 1996–2009. Berlin 2019. p. 76.
  4. ↑ Michael Rutschky: Towards the end. Diary entries 1996–2009. Berlin 2019. p. 76.
  5. ↑ Michael Rutschky: Towards the end. Diary entries 1996–2009. Berlin 2019. p. 76.
  6. ↑ Kaspar Maase from the University of Tübingen receives state teaching award , press release in: Informationsdienst Wissenschaft from November 16, 2009, accessed on November 19, 2009
personal data
SURNAME Maase, Kaspar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cultural scientist and folklorist
DATE OF BIRTH June 8, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf