Othmar Zaubek

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Othmar Karl Matthias Zaubek (born July 15, 1949 in Vienna ; † November 24, 2014 ) was an Austrian local researcher and science journalist.

Life

Zaubek studied folklore at the University of Vienna with Leopold Schmidt . Since 1966 he has been active in science and local history. There are around 80 independent publications and around 1,000 newspaper and magazine articles.

He mainly dealt with topics from the Waldviertel , with a focus on history and folklore . As a hiking scholar of the modern style, he was involved in numerous local customers or wrote or edited them entirely himself. For many years Zaubek edited the cultural reports in the magazine Das Waldviertel and wrote countless book reviews.

Another focus is wind music research , which he carried out for all of Lower Austria and beyond. He is the author of a fundamental work on the subject. He is also a founding member of the International Society for Wind Music Research in Graz.

As a result of his research, he had repeatedly settled in different places in the Waldviertel, since the 1970s he had lived in the Grafenschlag community , where he was also buried in the local cemetery.

Sponsor

Among his discoverers and patrons was the Zwettler editor and publisher Josef Leutgeb († 1980), whose publishing house published Zaubek's books "Das Thayatal, 1971" and "Blasmusik im Bezirk Zwettl" 1980 "

Works (selection)

  • Waldviertel local history studies , 4 volumes, Vienna / Grafenschlag 1976–83.
  • Das Thayatal , Zwettl 1971. Verlag Josef Leutgeb
  • St. Johann im Walde , Langschwarza 1971.
  • Franzen. Contributions to local history , Franzen 1971.
  • Popular piety. Witnesses and signs of popular customs , Waidhofen 1973.
  • Pilgrimage shrines in the southwestern Waldviertel , Waidhofen 1974.
  • Brass music and annual custom in the Gmünd district , Schrems 1974.
  • Waldviertel Notgeld , Waidhofen 1974.
  • with Alois Mitterauer: A little local history of the market town of Grafenschlag. Publication on the occasion of the awarding of the municipal coat of arms on September 24, 1978 , Grafenschlag 1978.
  • Brass music in the district of Zwettl , Zwettl 1980. Verlag Josef Leutgeb
  • Home register of the market town Sallingberg , 1983.
  • Folklore from the Waldviertel , Grafenschlag 1985.
  • Life pictures of famous people from Waldviertel , Grafenschlag 1985.
  • About enemy incursions from Lower Austria (building blocks and examples for the interpretation of historical sagas) , Mannus Library XXVIII, Bonn 1987, pp. 831–913.
  • Brass music museum and brass music archive in their importance for regional brass music studies , Alta Musica 1, 1987, pp. 175–185.

literature

  • Rupert Leutgeb, Othmar KM Zaubek , Waldviertler Heimatbuch, 1994, p. 531

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary: Othmar Zaubek is dead . noen.at. November 27, 2014. Retrieved November 28, 2014.
  2. ↑ In memory of an enthusiastic admirer of brass music ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in brass music, page 25, issue 1/2/2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.blasmusik.at
personal data
SURNAME Zaubek, Othmar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zaubek, Othmar Karl Matthias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian local researcher and science journalist
DATE OF BIRTH July 15, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH November 24, 2014