Lutz Röhrich

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Lutz Röhrich (born October 9, 1922 in Tübingen ; † December 29, 2006 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German folklorist and storyteller .

Career

Immediately after graduating from high school in 1941, Röhrich was drafted into military service and released in 1944 after being severely wounded. Between 1945 and 1950 studied Röhrich German , history , musicology and Latin in Tübingen and was with the work The demonic figures of Swabian folk tradition , a study of 2,000 people beliefs of the southwest German space archival with recourse sources doctorate .

Subsequently Röhrich became an assistant at for four years the German Institute of the University of Mainz , where he joined in 1954 in Germanic philology and folklore with the work of fairy tales and reality habilitated . From 1959 he was an adjunct professor in Mainz until he became the first holder of the chair for folklore at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau in 1967 . Two years later he was also appointed head of the German Folk Song Archive. In 1990 he retired .

Right from the start, Röhrich was co-editor of the Encyclopedia of Fairy Tales and the yearbook of the Brothers Grimm Society . He was also the editor of the Motive series . Freiburg folk research (from 1971 to 1977) and Artes Populares (from 1976 to 1992).

Röhrich was a co-founder of the International Society for Folk Narrative Research and was its vice-president between 1979 and 1989 . In addition, he was a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences , the Gustav Adolf Academy for Folk Research in Uppsala and the Finnish Literature Society . Finally he was a member of the Folklore Society London and an honorary member of the Folklore Fellows Helsinki .

Röhrich became known to a wide audience through the publication of the Lexicon of Proverbs (1973).

Prizes and awards

See also

Fonts

  • Fairy tales and reality. A folklore study. 5th edition Schneider-Verlag, Baltmannsweiler 2001, ISBN 3-89676-380-6 Zugl. Habilitation thesis, University of Mainz 1956.
  • Legend. Metzler Verlag, Stuttgart 1966 (= Metzler Collection / Department E, Poetics , Vol. 55).
  • Gesture, metaphor, parody. Studies in language and folk poetry. University Press, Burlington, Vt 2006, ISBN 0-9770731-2-2 (reprint of the Düsseldorf 1967 edition).
  • Adam and Eve. The first human couple in folk art and folk poetry. Verlag Müller & Schindler, Stuttgart 1968.
  • Pottery in Alsace. Shown using the example of two family businesses in Oberbetschdorf and Soufflenheim. 3. Edition. Konkordia Verlag, Bühl 1980 (together with Gertraud Meinel).
  • Outright beasts. Animal jokes and what's behind them. Herder Verlag, Freiburg / B. 1977, ISBN 3-451-07634-9 (= Herder library , vol. 634).
  • The joke. Figures, forms, functions. Metzler Verlag, Stuttgart 1977, ISBN 3-476-00355-8 .
  • Dare to kiss the frog. The Grimm fairy tale number one in its changes. Verlag Orbensien, Bad Orb 1999, ISBN 3-927176-09-5 (reprint of the Cologne 1987 edition).
  • Lexicon of the proverbial idioms . 6th edition. Herder, Freiburg / B. 2003 (original edition 1973), ISBN 978-3-9811483-8-1 .
  • "And because they did not die ...". Anthropology, cultural history and the interpretation of fairy tales. Böhlau Verlag, Cologne 2002, ISBN 3-412-11201-1 .
  • Collected writings on folk song and ballad research. Waxmann Verlag, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-8309-1213-7 .
  • Encounters. Memories of my colleagues and friends . Waxmann Verlag, Münster 2016, ISBN 978-3-8309-3509-4 .

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personal data
SURNAME Röhrich, Lutz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German folklorist and storyteller
DATE OF BIRTH October 9, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Tübingen
DATE OF DEATH December 29, 2006
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau