Silke Göttsch-Elten

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Silke Göttsch-Elten (born May 8, 1952 in Neustadt in Holstein ) is a German folklorist .

Study and job

Silke Göttsch-Elten studied Folklore , Medieval and Modern History and Northern Studies at the University of Kiel from 1971 to 1977 and graduated with a Magister Artium (main subject Folklore). In 1980, he received his doctorate with a dissertation on the folk culture of Stapelholm . She then completed a scientific traineeship at the Württemberg State Museum in Stuttgart .

From 1981 to 1982 she was a research assistant on a VW research project and then a university assistant at the University of Kiel. 1989 habilitation them there with the Scriptures "All for a man ...": serfs and resistiveness in Schleswig-Holstein in the 18th century .

From 1991 to 1995 Göttsch-Elten was Professor of Folklore at the University of Freiburg , and since 1995 she has been Professor of Folklore at the University of Kiel.

From 1999 to 2003 she was chairwoman of the German Society for Folklore . From 2003 to 2007 she was editor of the Zeitschrift für Volkskunde with Reinhard Johler . Contributions to cultural research . Silke Göttsch-Elten has been a full member of the Academy of Sciences in Hamburg since 2008 .

Fonts (selection)

  • Contributions to the servants in Schleswig-Holstein 1740–1840. Wachholtz, Neumünster 1978, ISBN 3-529-02452-X .
  • Stapelholm folk culture. Information from archival sources. Wachholtz, Neumünster 1981, ISBN 3-529-02457-0 .
  • "All for one man ...": Serfs and resistance in Schleswig-Holstein in the 18th century. Wachholtz, Neumünster 1991, ISBN 3-529-02473-2 .
  • Methods of Folklore. Positions, sources, working methods of European ethnology. 2. revised Ed. Co-ed. Albrecht Lehmann, Reimer, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-496-02796-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Silke Göttsch-Elten. In: Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar Online. De Gruyter, Berlin. Retrieved May 22, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Göttsch-Elten, Silke
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German folklorist
DATE OF BIRTH May 8, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Neustadt in Holstein