Thomas Hengartner

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Thomas Hengartner (born November 5, 1960 in St. Gallen ; † May 10, 2018 in Stöcken ) was a Swiss folklorist .

Life

Between 1980 and 1988 , Hengartner studied dialectology , folklore , modern German literature and Swiss history at the University of Bern . From 1984 to 1988 he worked here as an assistant at the Research Center for onomastics , then until 1996 as a research assistant at the Department for Dialectology and Folklore of German-speaking Switzerland at the Institute for German Studies . In 1989 he received his doctorate with the dissertation God and the World in Emmental , followed in 1996 by his habilitation with the title On the question of urbanity from a folklore perspective . From 1996 to 2010 Hengartner was Professor of Folklore at the University of Hamburg . Since August 2010 he has taught at the University of Zurich . From 2003 to 2007 he was the first chairman of the German Society for Folklore (DGV). In January 2016 he took over the management of the Collegium Helveticum for five years .

His research focus was on entertainment and communication media in the 19th and 20th centuries, the culture and history of luxury foods , cultural-scientific technology research and the city and urbanity.

Thomas Hengartner died in May 2018 at the age of 57.

Prizes and awards

Publications (selection)

  • God and the world in the Emmental. A folkloric study of the origins, expansion and shaping of religious life within the framework of special religious groups. (= Language and Poetry New. Volume 41). Bern / Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-258-04191-1 .
  • with Jörg Niederhauser: Phonetics, Phonology and Phonetic Transcription. Basics, terms, methods and materials. (= Language Landscape Study Books. 4). Aarau u. a. 1993, ISBN 3-7941-3623-3 .
  • with Kurt Stadelmann: All ears. Telephone communication. (= Series of publications by the Swiss PTT Museum. Volume 5). Bern 1994, DNB 947474455 .
  • with Christoph Maria Merki (Ed.): Tobacco issues. Smoking from a cultural studies point of view. Zurich 1996, ISBN 3-905311-95-X .
  • Radio Switzerland, Suisse, Svizzera: 75 years of Swiss radio history in pictures. 1922-1997. (= Series of publications by the Museum for Communication, Bern ). Museum for Communication, Bern 1997.
  • with Johanna Rolshoven (Ed.): Technology - Culture. Forms of everyday technology - the technical as everyday. Zurich 1998.
  • Research field city. On the history of folklore research into urban forms of life. (= Life forms. Volume 11). Berlin / Hamburg 1999.
  • with Christoph Maria Merki (Ed.): Luxury foods. A handbook on cultural history. Campus, Frankfurt am Main 1999, ISBN 3-593-36337-2 . (Also under the title Luxury Foods. Eine Kulturgeschichte. Insel, Frankfurt am Main / Leipzig 2001, ISBN 3-458-34461-6 )
  • with Michael Simon, Timo Heimerdinger and Anne-Christin Lux (eds.): Pictures. Books. Bytes. On the mediality of everyday life. Mainz / Münster 2009, ISBN 978-3-8309-2179-0 .
  • with Sonja Windmüller and Beate Binder (eds.): Culture - Research. To the profile of a folklore cultural science. Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-643-10322-2 .
  • with Johannes Moser (Ed.): Borders and Differences. On the power of social and cultural boundaries. Dresden 2006, ISBN 3-86583-088-9 .
  • with Anna Schindler (Ed.): Growing pains. Social challenges of urban development and their significance for Zurich. Zurich 2014, ISBN 978-3-593-36337-0 .
  • with Karl Braun, Claus-Marco and Berhard Tschofen (eds.): Cultures of the senses. Approaches to the sensuality of the social world . Würzburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-593-36337-0 .
  • with Ute Holfelder, Klaus Schönberger and Christoph Schenker (eds.): Art and ethnography - between cooperation and co-production? Attraction - Repulsion - Entanglement: Epistemic and Methodological Perspectives . Zurich 2018, ISBN 978-3-0340-1410-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary notice of the Institute for Social Anthropology and Empirical Cultural Studies (accessed on May 16, 2018)
personal data
SURNAME Hengartner, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss folklorist
DATE OF BIRTH 5th November 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Gallen
DATE OF DEATH May 10, 2018
Place of death Sticks