Ueli Gyr

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Ueli Gyr (* 1945 ) is a Swiss folklorist . From 1995 to 2010 he was Professor of Folklore at the University of Zurich .

He completed his studies in Folklore, History of the French Language and French Literature at the Universities of Zurich and Grenoble in 1973, after which he worked as an assistant at the Folklore Department of the University of Zurich. 1977 promotion took place at the University of Zurich in the subject Folklore ( "The foreign issue in the work of C.-F. Ramuz", supervised by Arnold Niederer ), 1987/88, he has over Welschland stays habilitation in folklore. In 1993 Gyr was in Paris for a research stay at the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme / Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. In 1995 he became professor for folklore at the University of Zurich and at the same time head of the folklore seminar. Gyr retired in 2010.

His research interests include specialist identity and specialist history, everyday ethnography and everyday communication , symbol analyzes and consumer styles, non-verbal communication , urban research and urban lifestyles, custom practice and analysis, tourism and folklorism , cultural contacts, the course of life and the course of the year, local and regional cultures , food research, kitsch and everyday aesthetics.

He was editor of the journal “Swiss Archives for Folklore” (1983–2015) and the “Zurich Contributions to Everyday Culture” (1996–2010).

Works (selection)

  • own. strange. everyday. Cheerful essays and positions on contemporary culture . 265 p., Zurich 2017.
  • Everyday interface. Studies on life-world cultural research . Selected essays edited by Thomas Hengartner . Waxmann: Münster / New York / Munich / Berlin 2013, 446 pp.
  • The Swiss year. Change of milieu and everyday experience of volunteers . Basel and Frankfurt am Main 1992. 204 pp. (Cultural diversity and national identity, National Research Program 21).
  • Life lesson. Stays in Switzerland as a traditional pattern of education, upbringing and transition . Habilitation thesis. Zurich 1989. 564 pp., 27 ills.
  • The foreign topic in the work of C.-F. Ramuz. On the importance of intercultural-reflected ethnocentrism in literature . Diss. Bern 1978 (European University Papers, Series 19, Dept. Ethnology / Cultural Anthropology, A: Folklore, Vol. 13), 349 pp.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ueli Gyr at the Institute for Social Anthropology and Empirical Cultural Studies. February 7, 2018, accessed February 28, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Gyr, Ueli
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss folklorist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1945