Marin Trenk

Marin Trenk (born September 15, 1953 in Crvenka , Yugoslavia ) is a German ethnologist . He became famous with the book Döner Hawaii , in which he analyzes the "Germanization" of foreign food.

Career

Trenk studied ethnology , sociology and religious studies at the Free University of Berlin from 1975 to 1981 . During his studies, he conducted field research in Nigeria and Kenya . A second degree in business administration followed from 1981 to 1986 at the Free University of Berlin.

Since 2006 he has held a chair for ethnology at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . There he introduced the research area of culinary ethnology . Trenk is a member of the culinary forum and focuses on researching Thai food culture. In Isaan he conducted field research for 15 months.

Publications (selection)

• The white man's milk. The North American Indians and alcohol. 2000, ISBN 978-3496024927 .
• Survival strategies of a small-scale Bariba village on the edge of the Sahel in northern Benin. with Dieter Weiss, 2002.
• White Indians. Crossing the border between cultures in North America. Persimplex Publishing Group 2009, ISBN 3940528749 .
• Kebab Hawaii. Our globalized food. Klett-Cotta 2015, ISBN 978-3608948899 .

Web links

• Marin Trenk on the website of the University of Frankfurt
• Marin Trenk on perlentaucher.de
• Interview in welt.de: Germans eat more and more "invisible meat" (2014)
• Interview in sueddeutsche.de: The ethnologist Marin Trenk on globalization in the kitchen and the decline of German food culture (2015)
• Literature by and about Marin Trenk in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ br.de: Döner Hawaii ( Memento from October 4, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ Johannes Strempel: Kitchen without taboos, in: Die Zeit No. 32, August 1, 2013, p. 49.
3. ↑ Johannes Strempel: Kitchen without taboos, in: Die Zeit No. 32, August 1, 2013, p. 49.