Ulrike Himmelträger

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Ulrike Himmelheber (born February 9, 1920 in Mannheim , born Ulrike Römer ; † 2015 ) was a German ethnologist .

Life

Ulrike Himmeluchter was born in Mannheim. Her father was town planner of the city. She trained as a secretary and initially worked as a chief secretary. In 1941 she married the engineer Hermann Fischer (1911–1942) and had their eldest son, Eberhard Fischer . In 1944 she married the ethnologist Hans Himmelträger . With him she had a daughter, Susanne Himmelträger , in 1946 , and another son, Martin Himmelträger, in 1953. Eberhard Fischer and his daughter Anjali Fischer also became ethnologists, as did Susanne Himmelheber's daughter Clara Mayer-Himmelträger .

job

Ulrike and Hans Himmelträger formed an ethnological research team. They traveled together to Africa five times for field research, evaluated their field notes together, read each other's corrections of their scientific manuscripts and published several times together. Her research area were in Liberia and the Ivory Coast living Yakuba-Dan and Krahn . The book Die Dan, a farming people in the West African jungle , which they published together in 1958, is considered a standard monograph .

At that time still unusual, the Himmelhebers used sound and film recordings as a means of research and documentation. Their informants named them and reflected on the interview situations and the ethnographic interaction.

Publications (selection)

  • 1957: Black Sister: From Person to Person in Africa . Schünemann
  • 1958: Zonder muziek were wij slaves. Leven en ran or de negers . Uitg. Het Wereldvenster
  • 1958 with Hans Himmelträger: The Dan, a farming people in the West African jungle . Kohlhammer
  • 1970 with Hans Himmelträger : Negro fates. Reports from the Dan in Liberia.
  • 1975 with Hans Himmelträger: casting of a metal mask for the Senufo, Ivory Coast. In: Treatises and reports of the Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde Dresden.
  • 1993 with Hans Himmelträger, Eberhard and Barbara Fischer: Boti, a mask carver from Guro Ivory Coast: Notes on the personality, work process and style of a traditional sculptor in West Africa . Museum Rietberg, 1993. ISBN 3-907070-45-3

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Museum Rietberg Zurich, Annual Report 2015. (PDF, 3.63 MB) In: rietberg.ch. April 12, 2016, p. 26 , accessed March 28, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Ulrike and Hans Himmelträger - Life and Creation , May 30, 2008. In: Website About Africa & the rest of the world . Retrieved February 26, 2017
  3. ↑ a b c d Himmelhub, Ulrike; born Romans . In: Bettina Beer: Women in German-speaking ethnology: a manual. Böhlau Verlag, 2007. ISBN 9783412112066 . Pages 90-94. ( Google Book )
  4. ↑ Eberhard Fischer: On the death of the anthropologist Hans Himmelträger. The manufacturers of African art , December 9, 2003. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . Retrieved February 27, 2017
  5. ↑ Dieter Haller : The search for the foreign: History of ethnology in the Federal Republic 1945-1990 . Campus Verlag, 2012. ISBN 978-3-593396002 . Page 287
  6. ↑ Short portrait: Hans and Ulrike Himmelheber . In: Interviews with German Anthropologists . Retrieved February 26, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Sky lifter, Ulrike
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ethnologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 9, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim
DATE OF DEATH 2015