Michael Herbert Faber

Michael Herbert Faber (born January 14, 1953 in Bonn ) is a German cultural scientist . His research focuses are job-related and cultural-historical mobile groups of the population, festive and custom culture as well as Rhenish everyday history. Together with Florian Dering, at the end of the 1970s, he pioneered folklore and socio-historical research on showmen .

education and profession

Faber studied folklore, art history, ethnology, sociology and education in Bonn. During his studies, he helped set up the Lötschentaler Museum Kippel in the Swiss canton of Valais. In 1979 he received his doctorate at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Bonn with the dissertation "Showmen. Folklore study of a traveling professional group in the Cologne-Bonn area". Until 2018, Faber was the deputy director of the LVR open-air museum in Kommern as "State Museum Director" .

Volunteering

As its first vice-president, Faber helped set up the Comité international de l'audiovisuel et des nouvelles technologies de l'image et du son (AVICOM ) in the UNESCO organization Conseil international des musées (ICOM) in the 1990s . Since 2016 he has been Vice President of AVICOM again.

Faber has been committed to improving basic medical care and social projects in Albania since 1992 . On behalf of the German Malteser Aid Service and the Sovereign Order of Maltese Knights , he set up the Albanian Aid Service Malteser - Ndhimon ne Shqiperi (MNSH) , a voluntary service that is recognized as a civil protection organization. From 1995 to 2006 he was its executive president.

Awards

In 2005 he was given honorary citizenship by the local council of the Albanian city of Shkoder .

Publications (selection)

Showman. Folklore study of a traveling professional group in the Cologne-Bonn area. Ludwig Röhrscheid Verlag Bonn 1981. ISBN 3-7928-0446-8 (= Rheinisches Archiv, 113) [Phil. Diss. University of Bonn]
with Peter Weber: Showman life. Old and new pictures from the world of Rhenish fair families . Verlag Franz Schmitt Siegburg 1982. ISBN 387710-098-8
The arrival of the train. Variety shows and showmen as pioneers of the cinema . In: Odeon - Scala - Capitol. 100 years of cinema. Edited by Ulrich Löber. Self-published by the Landesmuseum Koblenz in 1995. ISBN 3-925915-51-6 . Pp. 19–37 (= publications of the Landesmuseum Koblenz . State collection of technical cultural monuments B individual publications, 51)
In cooperation with Manuela Schütze, Ingo Konrads: Recording! Photography and exploration of Hungarian and Romanian folk life. Rheinland-Verlag Cologne 1997. ISBN 3-7927-1667-4 (= guides and writings of the Rheinisches Freilichtmuseums and Landesmuseum für Volkskunde in Kommern, 56)
Living History - Living history or (experiencing) history? Possibilities, methods and limits using the example of the Rheinisches Freilichtmuseum Kommern . In: Living History in the Museum. Possibilities and limits of a popular form of communication. Edited by Ruth-E. Mohrmann. Waxmann Verlag 2008. Münster ISBN 978-3-8309-2029-8 , pp. 117-133 (= contributions to folk culture in north-west Germany, 111)
LVR open-air museum Kommern. Rheinisches Landesmuseum für Volkskunde. Museum guide. Arr. Michael H. Faber. Self-published LVR-Freilichtmuseum Kommern 2009. ISBN 978-3-00-025698-1 (Guide and publications of the LVR-Freilichtmuseum Kommern - Rheinisches Landesmuseum für Volkskunde, 62)
Terrazzo or the life of the Cancians. On the globalization of a Venetian handicraft technique since the second half of the 19th century . In: People - Ideas - Migration. New perspectives on building culture in the Rhineland and Westphalia-Lippe. Klartext Verlag Essen Michael 2010. ISBN 978-3-8375-0355-5 . Pp. 183-191
Publisher together with Karl-Heinz Erdmann: Pützchens Markt. 650 years in Bonn on the Rhine. Bouvier Verlag Bonn 2017. ISBN 978-3-416-04014-3

Numerous articles for the European Showman Union , the German Showman Association and in national and international journals for showman and circus culture

Web links

Museum Kommern, staff

personal data
SURNAME	Faber, Michael Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German cultural scientist
DATE OF BIRTH	January 14, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bonn