Roland Girtler

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Roland Girtler (2007)

Roland Girtler (born May 31, 1941 in Vienna - Ottakring ) is an Austrian sociologist , cultural anthropologist , writer , university professor , columnist and exhibition curator . As a representative of the understanding sociology according to Alfred Schütz , he has dedicated himself to qualitative social research .

Life

Roland Girtler is the son of the former community and country doctor from Spital am Pyhrn Roland Girtler and the country doctor Leopoldine Girtler. He is a grandson of the civil engineer and university professor Rudolf Girtler . According to his own statements, Roland Girtler is a descendant of the seafarer Jacques Cartier .

He spent his childhood and youth in Spital am Pyhrn, where he attended elementary school. From 1951 to 1959 he attended the humanistic Stiftsgymnasium Kremsmünster in Kremsmünster Abbey , where he also graduated . In 1959 Girtler enrolled at the University of Vienna and in 1960 was reciprocated in the striking student association Corps Symposion Vienna . He twice distinguished himself as consenior . From 1967 he studied ethnology , prehistory , philosophy and sociology at the philosophical faculty of the University of Vienna . During his studies he married and worked as a beer deliverer, worker at the Naschmarkt and as a film extra. In 1971 he received his doctorate in philosophy, and in 1979 he completed his habilitation at the University of Vienna. He is u. a. Member of the Austrian Society for Prehistory and Early History, the Austrian Alpine Association , Friends of Nature and the Anthropological Society in Vienna. Roland Girtler also dealt with the fraternities in journalism.

Research and Activities

In the early 1970s he conducted field research in India on The "democratic" institution of Panchayat in India and published the results in 1971 in the book of the same name. His varied research activities led him to the farming villages of Gujarat (India) and the slums of Mumbai (then Bombay), but also to "fine people" ( aristocrats , politicians , hunters ), in the environment of peripheral urban cultures ( prostitutes , sandlers , Crooks ), to mountain farmers , smugglers , (then exclusively urban) police officers , the country folk in Transylvania , to country doctors, convent students and poachers .

His current research focuses on cultural sociology , marginal cultures and the farming class in Austria and Transylvania . As an unconventional researcher and academic teacher, Girtler set 10 commandments for field research .

Girtler is known as a passionate advocate of the bicycle as the ideal means of transport, also to be able to get closer to the examined milieus. Such are his books, Beyond the Frontiers. A cultural scientist on a bicycle and from a bicycle: Thoughts and reflections on cultural studies written from the perspective of a cyclist . His column, which appears in the Sunday edition of the Kronen Zeitung , in which he describes himself as a “vagabond cultural scientist”, he often begins by pointing out that he has reached the destination described in the text by train and / or bicycle. Most of the time the column ends with the words "I wish [my interlocutors] the best and move on."

Roland Girtler was associate professor at the Institute for Sociology at the University of Vienna (institute member since 1972). From 1973 to 1975 he taught at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . Since 2000 he has headed the Museum Poacher in the Alpine Region in St. Pankraz near Windischgarsten - Rebels of the Mountains.

Awards and honors

Publications

  • The legal norms of the sovereign indigenous groups in north-western Australia: a contribution to the method of legal ethnology , Vienna 1971, ÖNB main department Heldenplatz (dissertation University of Vienna 1971, 250 pages).
  • The Democratic Institution of Panchayat in India: A Comparison of the “Legal” and the “Traditional” Panchayat . Institute for Ethnology of the University of Vienna, 1972 (= Acta ethnologica et linguistica: Series Indica, No. 28, Acta ethnologica et linguistica: Series Indica , No. 5).
  • The eagle and the three points. The failed, criminal career of the former crook Pepi Taschner. Böhlau , Vienna 1983, ISBN 3-205-07207-3 . Reissued in 2007 as 2nd edition, anniversary edition, ISBN 978-3-205-77610-9 .
  • Ash liquor. Changing mountain farming life. Landesverlag, Linz 1988. New edition: Aschenlauge. The old culture of the farmers . Böhlau, Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-205-78858-4 .
  • Over the borders. A cultural scientist on a bicycle , Veritas, Linz, 1991. ISBN 3-85329-869-9
  • Vagans, students, the culture of alcohol and the ideal of freedom. Once and Now, Yearbook of the Association for Corps Student History Research, Vol. 36 (1992), pp. 71-91.
  • Banished and forgotten - the downfall of the rural folk in Transylvania. Veritas, Linz 1992. ISBN 3-85329-978-4 . Relaunched: The Landler in Romania. A lost German-speaking culture. Lit, Vienna 2014, ISBN 978-3-643-50558-3
  • The line . Sociology of a milieu. Pocket, Vol. 1. Lit, Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-8258-7699-3
  • Marginal cultures: theory of indecency. Böhlau, Vienna 1995, ISBN 3-205-98559-1
  • Poachers - Social rebels in the mountains. Böhlau, Vienna 1998, ISBN 3-205-98823-X
  • Rotwelsch : The old language of thieves, prostitutes and crooks . Böhlau, Vienna 1998, ISBN 3-205-98902-3 .
  • The old monastery school. A world of austerity and little rebels . Böhlau, Vienna Cologne Weimar 2000, ISBN 3-205-99231-8 .
  • with Hermann Attinghaus, Konrad Buchwald : Heimat . Eckartschriften Heft 152, Österreichische Landsmannschaft , Vienna 2000.
  • Field research methods. Lit, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-8252-2257-8
  • The fine people. Campus, Frankfurt am Main 1989. Reissued by Böhlau, Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-593-34133-6
  • Franz Boas . Fraternity member and son-in-law of an Austrian revolutionary from 1848. PDF; 2003. Anthropos, Zaunrith, 2001/96/572 ISSN  0257-9774 .
  • 10 commandments of field research. Pocket Vol. 2nd 2nd edition. Lit, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-8258-7700-2
  • From the bike. Pocket Vol. 3, 2nd edition., Lit, Vienna 2011 (first edition 2004), ISBN 978-3-8258-7826-9
  • Wrong Way of St. James. The scar in the souls of Muslims, Jews and heretics. Steirische Verlagsgesellschaft, Graz 2005, ISBN 3-900323-85-2 .
  • Adventure limit. About smugglers, rituals and “sacred” spaces , Pocket Vol. 7. Lit, Vienna a. a. 2006, ISBN 3-8258-9575-0 .
  • Cultural anthropology. An introduction , Pocket Vol. 8, Lit, Vienna a. a. 2006, ISBN 3-8258-9576-9 .
  • A reader. The best from the vagabond cultural scientist. Böhlau, Vienna 2006, ISBN 978-3-205-77492-1 .
  • The last song before Sibiu. Böhlau, Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-205-77662-8 .
  • "Gentlemen want to pay". The colorful world of waitresses and waitresses. Böhlau, Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-205-77764-9 .
  • Idiosyncratic careers, who go their own way, cannot be overtaken . Böhlau, Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-205-78644-3 .
  • Max Weber in Vienna: his dispute with Joseph Schumpeter in Café Landtmann, the old institute for sociology: Paul Neurath, René König and his other residents, along with related stories about drinking rituals, duels and crooks . Lit, Vienna / Berlin / Münster 2013, ISBN 978-3-643-50473-9 .
  • Color students between cosmopolitanism and anti-Semitism . Lit Verlag, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-643-13252-9 .
  • Girtler on the go. Conversations with seven contemporaries . Böhlau, Vienna 2018, ISBN 978-3-205-20726-9 .

literature

Web links

Commons : Roland Girtler  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Roland Girtler: Country Doctors. When visiting sick people was still an adventure. Böhlau, 2nd edition, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar, ISBN 3-205-99012-9 , p. 31.
  2. ↑ Hubert Christian Ehalt , Josef Hochgerner, Wilhelm Hopf (eds.): The truth lies in the field. Roland Girtler on his 65th birthday. Lit Verlag, Vienna u. a. 2006, ISBN 3-7000-0508-3 , p. 78.
  3. ↑ The remarkable family tree. In: Roland Girtler's explorations. Roland Girtler (Ed.)
  4. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 164/150.
  5. ^ Roland Girtler. Short biography in: Clemens Aigner, Gerhard Fritz and Constantin Staus-Rausch (eds.): The Habsburg trauma: The difficult relationship between the Republic of Austria and its history. Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2014, ISBN 978-3-205-78917-8 , pp. 142f. ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  6. ↑ Color students. In: Roland Girtler's explorations. Roland Girtler (Ed.)
  7. ↑ See Roland Girtler: Color students between cosmopolitanism and anti-Semitism. Lit Verlag, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-643-13252-9 . See also: Roland Girtler: Franz Boas . Fraternity member and son-in-law of an Austrian revolutionary from 1848. ( PDF; 2003 ) Anthropos, Zaunrith, 2001/96/572 ISSN  0257-9774 .
  8. ↑ Roland Girtler: Field research adventurer turns 70. In: Press release of the University of Vienna , May 30, 2011, accessed on February 3, 2018.
  9. ↑ The expert for "Sandler und Sennerinnen". In: science. ORF.at , 2002.
  10. ↑ Hubert Christian Ehalt , Josef Hochgerner, Wilhelm Hopf (eds.): The truth lies in the field. Roland Girtler on his 65th birthday. Lit Verlag, Vienna u. a. 2006, ISBN 3-7000-0508-3 .
  11. ↑ Awarding of cultural medals and the title of consultant. ( Memento from September 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) In: Cityfoto.at website , Aug 25, 2009 with photos by Heinz Kraml (Upper Austria).
  12. ↑ “Conquerors of Strange Worlds”: Roland Girtler turns 75. In: Tiroler Tageszeitung , 2013, accessed on March 4, 2020.
  13. ^ Prizes from the City of Vienna to Konrad Paul Liessmann and Roland Girtler. In: Press release of the University of Vienna , December 3, 2014, accessed on June 9, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Girtler, Roland
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian sociologist and cultural anthropologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 31, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna