Konrad Vanja
Konrad Vanja (born December 1, 1947 in Leipzig ) is a German folklorist and was director of the Museum of European Cultures in Berlin from 2000 to 2012 .
Life
Vanja studied folklore / European ethnology, Protestant theology and sociology at the Philipps University of Marburg and received her doctorate in 1977 under Ingeborg Weber-Kellermann on a topic of the social history of Hesse in the 19th century. He then gained experience in scientific museum work at the Lower Saxony Open Air Museum in Cloppenburg, at the Museum of the City of Rüsselsheim and at the German Tool Museum in Remscheid. Vanja had been working at the Museum für Deutsche Volkskunde (now the Museum of European Cultures of the National Museums in Berlin - Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation ) in Berlin since 1981: initially as a research assistant, later as curator and chief curator. From 2000 he headed the Museum of European Cultures until his retirement in December 2012. He has lived in Ansbach since then . His successor at MEK was Elisabeth Tietmeyer .
In his research Konrad Vanja deals primarily with popular graphics and intercultural contacts, whereby the relationship between Germany and Poland is particularly close to his heart. He designs exhibitions and publishes a. a. on the subjects of European popular graphics, luxury paper, vivat ribbons, jewelry and custom, the picture trade in Europe and the history of the European freedom movements in the 19th century. In addition to his diverse scientific committee work, Vanja is co-founder and co-editor of the series “Arbeitsskreis Bild Druck Papier”. In March 2006 he was awarded the Cavalier's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland .
From 1995 to 2005 Vanja was second chairman of the German Society for Folklore . Since 2008 he has been chairman of the Adolf Reichwein Association and since 2010 chairman of the Bild Druck Papier working group .
Fonts (selection)
- with Gerhard Weiduschat: On the victory of a good cause. About the German enthusiasm for Poland. In: Malgorzata Omilanowska, Tomasz Torbus (ed.): Door to door. Poland - Germany. 1000 years of art and history . Dumont, Cologne 2011, ISBN 978-3-8321-9399-7 , p. 444 ff.
- The principaux centers de production d'imagerie populaire imprimée en Europe. In: Marie-Louise Schneider (Ed.): Des Mondes de Papier. L'Imagerie popular de Wissembourg . Musées de la Ville de Strasbourg, Strasbourg 2010, pp. 27–31.
- with Tilmann Wesolowski, Irene Ziehe: Rudolf Virchow the folklorist and ethnographer: methods, topics and forms of his research and collections. In: Ingo Wirth (Ed.): New contributions to Virchow research. Festschrift for the 70th birthday of Christian Andree . Olms, Hildesheim u. a. 2010, pp. 465-484.
- Picture trade in Europe. A picture report. In: Alberto Milano (ed.): Commercio delle stampe e diffusione delle immagini nei secoli XVIII e XIX - Trade and circulation of popular prints, XVIII and XIX century - Image trade and image distribution in the 18th and 19th centuries. ViaDellaTerra, Rovereto 2008 pp. 49-59.
- Poland enthusiasm . Kupfergraben-Verl.-Ges., Berlin 2005. (Ed. With Wolfgang Michalka and Erardo Cristoforo Rautenberg )
- Vivat - Vivat - Vivat! Museum for Dt. Folklore, Berlin 1985.
- Craftsmen in Berlin - today . Association d. Friends d. Museum for Dt. Folklore, Berlin 1981.
- Structural change in villages between overpopulation and emigration . Marburg Study Group for Europ. Ethnology eV, Marburg 1978.
Memberships
- Member of the Scientific Advisory Board at the Minister for Science and Culture of the Free State of Saxony for the Institute for Saxon History and Folklore in Dresden (until 2014)
- Scientific advisory board at the Danube Swabian Central Museum in Ulm
- Scientific Advisory Board at the Pomeranian State Museum Greifswald (until 2014)
- Conseil Scientifique du Musée des Civilizations de l'Europe et de la Méditerranée in Marseille
- Member of the Board of Trustees of the Silesian Museum in Görlitz
- Board member of the German-Polish Foundation for Cultural Preservation and Monument Protection
- Assessor of the State Historical Association for the Mark Brandenburg (until 2014)
- 2nd chairman of the German Society for Folklore (1995 to 2005)
- Corresponding member of the Austrian Folklore Society
Awards
- Award of the Dialog Prize of the German-Polish Society of the Federal Association (November 2012)
- Commemorative medal of the University of Wrocław for the 200th anniversary (June 2012)
- Awarded the Karl von Holtei Medal of the Wroclaw Collection Cologne (2007)
- Awarded the Cavalier Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland (March 2006)
literature
- New board members . In: Reichwein Forum . No. 13 (December 2008), pp. 2–3 ( PDF, 1.3 MB ).
- Wolfgang Brückner: Greetings for Konrad Vanja, Berlin on his 60th birthday on December 1, 2007. In: Wolfgang Brückner: Folklore as historical cultural studies. Supplements II (= publications on folklore and cultural history. 88.3). Würzburg 2010, pp. 464-468.
- Andrzej Tomaszewski: Laudation on the occasion of the awarding of the Polish Cavalier's Cross to Professor Konrad Vanja on March 2, 2006. In: Wolfgang Brückner, Detlef Lorenz, Sigrid Nagy, Konrad Vanja (eds.) Working group Bild Druck Papier . Volume 11: Conference proceedings Ravenna 2006. Waxmann, Münster et al. 2007, ISBN 978-3-8309-1816-5 , pp. 219-221.
- Personal bibliography. In: Sigrid Nagy, Christa Pieske, Konrad Vanja (eds.): Working group image printing paper . Volume 8: Conference proceedings Budapest 2003. Waxmann, Münster et al. 2004, ISBN 3-8309-1454-7 , pp. 237-240.
Web links
- Literature by and about Konrad Vanja in the catalog of the German National Library
- Konrad Vanja ( Memento from February 8, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) at Volkskunde Online
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Vanja, Konrad |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German folklorist and museum director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 1, 1947 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leipzig |