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Katesa Schlosser (born October 8, 1920 in Dresden ; † December 9, 2010 in Kiel ) was a German ethnographer , Africanist and religious scholar with a focus on the “native churches” of South and South West Africa, rich in prophetic movements.

In 1945 she received her doctorate on the subject of "Prophetism in Africa" ​​in Jena at the Institute for Anthropology and Ethnology with the anthropologist Bernhard Struck (1881–1971) and worked at the Museum of Ethnology at Kiel University . In her habilitation thesis she dealt with the new social associations of the indigenous population of South and South West Africa and the history and social structure of the churches there. But she is best known in Zululand for her extensive work on the lightning magician Laduma Madela. Schlosser was Professor of Ethnology at the University of Kiel and headed the Museum of Ethnology at the University of Kiel ; many of her works appeared in the series of works from the Museum of Ethnology at the University of Kiel .

Prophets in Africa

Your study of religious leaders in Africa ( prophets in Africa ) is an early masterpiece on African prophetism, which draws on rich historical material and summarizes the preparatory work of researchers such as the missionary Albert Kropf ( prophets of lies ), James Darmesteter ( Mahdi ), Brou ( prophetism ), Platt ( African Prophet ), Ringwald ( West African Prophet ) and Sundkler ( Bantu Prophet ) on the basis of new ethnographic material for a study on the religious and social-psychological backgrounds of the appearance of the prophets and the prophetic movements expands and rounds off the lets translated source material speak for itself. It deals with prophets emerging from ancient indigenous religions, Islam and missionary Christianity. The overview begins with the prophetess Al-Kahina , who opposed the Arab invasion of north-west Africa , who already treated Ibn Khaldun in his history of the Berbers from a distance of seven hundred years, and extends to the first half of the 20th century, when the influence of the Christian missions - especially that of the Protestant churches - had reached its zenith. This work was influenced by the work of Georg Eckert and Friedrich Rudolf Lehmann on prophethood in Melanesia (South Seas).

Laduma Madela

She devoted much of her work to the Zulu - prophets and lightning magician Laduma Madela ( Zulu mythology, the one-legged God Madelas wildlife, crafts of lightning magician Laduma Madela, medicines of lightning magician Laduma Madela, The Bantu Bible of lightning magician Laduma Madela Creation Zulu history, sorcery Zululand: manuscripts of the lightning magician Laduma Madela ), who was also an informant of the anthropologist and theologian Axel-Ivar Berglund , the author of the most comprehensive work on the Zulu cosmology Zulu Thought-Patterns and Symbolism .

Irenäus Eibl-Eibesfeld

The ethologist Irenäus Eibl-Eibesfeldt has repeatedly misunderstood important passages in Katesa Schlosser's writings, as Michael Gommel proves.

Works

• Prophets in Africa. - Braunschweig: Limbach, 1949
• Signalism in the art of primitive peoples: biological-psychological laws in the deviations from the norm of the model. - Kiel: Mühlau, 1952
• Native churches in South and South West Africa: their history and social structure; Results of an ethnographic study trip in 1953. - Kiel: Mühlau [in Komm.], 1958
• Magic in Zululand: manuscripts of the lightning magician Laduma Madela. - Kiel: Schmidt & Klaunig, 1972
• The Bantubibel of the lightning magician Laduma Madela: Creation story of the Zulu. - Kiel: Schmidt & Klaunig, 1977
• The Zulu lightning magician Susa Madela: King of the one-eyed. - Kiel: Schmidt & Klaunig, 1982
• Medicines of the lightning magician Laduma Madela: a visual documentation from Kwa Zulu / South Africa. - Kiel: Schmidt & Klaunig, 1984
• Crafts of the lightning magician Laduma Madela: a pictorial documentation from Kwa Zulu, South Africa, 1959 - 1986; Appendix Graphics of 76 to 78 year old Laduma Madela. - Kiel: Schmidt u. Klaunig, 1986
• Madela's animal life: animals in magic and everyday life in Zulu and Tonga; Drawings by the lightning magician Laduma Madela. - Kiel: Schmidt & Klaunig, 1992
• The one-legged god: Laduma Madela as a portraitist and bard of the Zulu creator god and the chiefs of his clan from mythical times; the praises, izibongo, in both Zulu and German. - Kiel: Schmidt & Klaunig, 1993
• Zulu mythology: as written and illustrated by the Zulu prophet Laduma Madela; in Zulu and English / Laduma Madela. - Kiel: Schmidt & Klaunig, 1997
• At the edge of the Kalahari: historical color photographs of Tswana Chiefdoms and Hereros in exile. - Kiel: Museum of Ethnology at the University of Kiel, 2001
• Rain-Queens and Python dance: historical color photographs of Lovedu and Venda life in Northern Transvaal; appendix in black and white; Venda craftsmen in 1953. Kiel: Museum for Ethnology of the Univ. Kiel, 2002
• Dream destination Samoa: travel pictures from 1912 by Fritz Schlosser and 1978 by his daughter Katesa; Appendix: Respect mats in Tonga. - Kiel: Museum of Ethnology of the Univ. Kiel, 2003
• Market life on the Ivory Coast: Travel pictures from 1963 from the markets in Abidjan / Treichville and in Bouaké. - Kiel, 2003
• Agotu: a Lutheran mission station on Mount Michael, eastern highlands of Papua New Guinea; Walks with the Leica under the Papua Agotus 1978. - Kiel: Museum for Ethnology of the Univ. Kiel, 2004
• Zulu weddings in cultural change: Photographs of weddings on the Cezaberg in the heart of the Zululand and of the kraals of prominent wedding guests. - Kiel: Museum of Ethnology of the Univ. Kiel, 2004
• Papuans in festive decorations: variety and splendor at the Goroka Show 1978; eastern highlands of Papua New Guinea. - Kiel: Museum for Ethnology of the University, 2005
• Visiting magicians in Zululand: historical color photographs from their kraals 1959-1985 / 86; Appendix: Zulu fortune tellers. - Kiel: Museum of Ethnology of the Univ. Kiel, 2006
• Zulu, Swazi and Tonga: my Natal diary 1959 in color photographs. - Kiel: Museum for Ethnology of the University, 2006

Web links

• Literature by and about Katesa Schlosser in the catalog of the German National Library
• Katesa Schlosser : Works from the Museum of Ethnology at the University of Kiel
• Short biography

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kieler Nachrichten, December 23, 2010
2. ↑ online Axel-Ivar Berglund: Zulu Thought-Patterns and Symbolism. London: C Hurst & Co, 1976
3. ↑ http://vts.uni-ulm.de/docs/2005/5122/vts_5122.pdf Michael Gommel: The other in contemporary human biological reality. Theoretical and empirical studies on the human biological image of man in the 20th century in Germany. Ulm 2004 (Diss.)