Thomas Hauschild

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Thomas Hauschild (born October 16, 1955 in Berlin ) is a German ethnologist and university professor .

Life

Hauschild studied 1973-1979 ethnology , folklore and religious studies at the University of Hamburg , where he in 1979 with a thesis on the evil eye doctorate was. In the same year he curated the exhibition Witches with Heidi Staschen and Regina Troschke in the Hamburg Museum für Völkerkunde , which traveled in three versions for 15 years and had over a million visitors. Between 1980 and 1982 Hauschild worked at the Ethnographic Museum in Berlin-Dahlem. From 1982 to 1984, as a fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, he carried out stationary ethnological field research on religion and politics in the southern Italian province of Basilicata . About this research, he wrote a study with which he at the 1990 University of Cologne habilitation was. The research was continued up to the year 2000 with regular stays of a few weeks to months and in 2002 led to the publication of his widely acclaimed main work on “Power and Magic in Italy” (English translation 2011). Nils Minkmar wrote in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung about "Power and Magic ..." that "without any academic pomp [...] the explosive cultural-scientific questions of the time: about the future of the Enlightenment, about the relationship between popular narratives and scientific discourse, after the ultimate establishment of belief systems ”.

In 1992 Hauschild was appointed to a professorship for ethnology at the University of Tübingen . From the summer semester 2008 until his early retirement at the end of the winter semester 2015/16, he taught as a professor for ethnology and comparative cultural sociology at the Martin Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg . Hauschild is a corresponding member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences .

Until 2013, Thomas Hauschild was co-editor of the magazine for cultural studies , which he founded together with Lutz Musner in 2007, and the magazine Historische Anthropologie . For several years from 2000 he worked intensively with stage directors ( Christoph Marthaler , Christoph Schlingensief ). At the same time, Hauschild, together with numerous younger colleagues, researched syncretism between the religions of the Mediterranean region and the geographical background of religious fundamentalisms in the Euro-Mediterranean region.

Visiting professorships and fellowships have taken Thomas Hauschild to the Universities of Hamburg , Heidelberg and Hanover , the Free University of Berlin , the La Sapienza University in Rome and the Istituto Orientale in Naples, the Maison méditerranéenne des sciences de l'homme in Aix-en-Provence . He worked three semesters as a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin and one semester at the International Research Center for Cultural Studies (IFK) in Vienna. He lived for a year as a fellow of the Käte-Hamburger-Kolleg in the excellence project “Dynamics of the History of Religions between Asia and Europe” at the Ruhr University in Bochum . For the 2017 summer semester, Hauschild was appointed Hans Blumenberg Professor at the Cluster of Excellence “Politics and Religion” at the University of Münster .

In 2012 Thomas Hauschild published a cross-cultural study on the multiculturalism and the Asian backgrounds of the western Santa Claus, which Jürgen Kaube described in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung as "the most beautiful non-fiction book of the year". Hauschild is currently working on a book on apparitions, obsessional cults, and the neurobiology of hallucinations and video games.

Publications (selection)

  • The evil eye. Studies in the history of ideas and social psychology (= contributions to ethnomedicine. Volume 7). Revised new edition. Mensch und Leben, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-88911-001-0 .
  • with the collaboration of Heidi Staschen: The old and the new witches. The story of women on the border. Heyne, Munich 1987, ISBN 3-453-00083-8 .
  • as publisher: lust for life and xenophobia: Ethnology in the Third Reich. Suhrkamp-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1995, ISBN 3-518-28789-3 .
  • with Heidi Staschen: Witches. Königsfurt, Krummwisch 2001, ISBN 3-89875-001-9 .
  • Power and magic in Italy. Merlin-Verlag, Gifkendorf 2002, ISBN 3-87536-232-2 (English under the title Magic and Power in Southern Italy. Translated by Jeremy Gaines. Berghahn, London 2011, ISBN 978-1-84545-482-1 ).
  • with Bernd Jürgen Warneken (Ed.): Inspecting Germany: Internationale Deutschland-Ethnographie der Gegenwart. Lit-Verlag, Münster et al. 2002, ISBN 3-8258-6123-6 .
  • Ritual and Violence: Ethnological Studies in European and Mediterranean Societies. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2008, ISBN 978-3-518-58491-0 .
  • with Britta Heinrich among others: About bird men, pilots and shamans. Cultural history and technologies of flight. Edition AZUR, Leipzig 2011, ISBN 978-3-942375-03-0 .
  • Santa Claus. The true story. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2012, ISBN 978-3-10-030063-8 (2nd edition 2013, revised edition as paperback in autumn 2016).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Thomas Hauschild, Bernd Jürgen Warneken: Inspecting Germany: international Germany ethnography of the present . Lit, 2002, ISBN 3-8258-6123-6 ( online [accessed April 8, 2016]).
  2. ↑ Perlentaucher: Thomas Hauschild, Power and Magic in Italy. Perlentaucher, February 4, 2016, accessed March 4, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Nils Minkmar: Letters from the realm of the dead. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. December 8, 2002 (online) .
  4. ↑ Press release from the University of Halle .
  5. ^ Christoph Schlingensief: Atta Atta. The art has broken out. (Videos, 962 min) (online)
  6. ↑ Thomas Hauschild, Sina Kottmann, Martin Zillinger: Syncretism in the Mediterranean: Universalism, Cultural Relativism and the Issue of the Mediterranean as a Cultural Area. In: History and Anthropology. Volume 18, No. 3, 2007, pp. 309-332.
  7. ↑ The Inevitability of Religion. Lecture series with Prof. Dr. Thomas Hauschild, summer semester 2017 (flyer of the lecture series, PDF, accessed July 17, 2017)
  8. ↑ Oliver Jungs: Is religion just ghost vision in the end? In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. July 12, 2017, p. 11 (report on a lecture by Hauschild)
  9. ↑ Santa's Truth. In: FAZ . December 6, 2012, p. 29.
  10. ↑ Thomas Hauschild: Geister und Gespenster: Historical contextualization and neurobiological universalism (=  Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, Yearbook 2014 ). Heidelberg 2015, p. 45-48 .
personal data
SURNAME Hauschild, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ethnologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH October 16, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin