Wolfgang Brückner

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Wolfgang Brückner (born March 14, 1930 in Fulda ) is a German folklorist and Germanist . He is Emeritus at the Chair of European Ethnology / Folklore at the University of Würzburg .

Career

Brückner studied philosophy , German , folklore , history and art history . In 1956 he did his doctorate with Mathilde Hain at the University of Frankfurt and subsequently became an assistant at the local Institute for Folklore. In 1964 his habilitation followed with the work Portrait and Custom . His daughter Elisabeth was born on July 3, 1965. From 1968 Brückner was professor and head of the institute mentioned until he was appointed full professor of German philology and folklore at the University of Würzburg in 1973 . Here he taught until his retirement in 1998. He was editor of the Frankfurt dictionary , inaugurator of exhibitions on mass picture production and co-editor of several scientific periodicals : Anzeiger des Germanisches Nationalmuseums (from 1965), Bavarian Leaves for Folklore (from 1974), Yearbook for Folklore (from 1978).

He is a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and a member of the Gustav-Adolfs-Akademie zu Uppsala . He gained widespread fame through his still active role as an expert on religious folk art in the series Kunst und Krempel of Bavarian TV .

Honors

Publications (selection)

  • Introduction to the exhibition Imagery and Faith. Popular cults and forms of worship; December 12, 1957 to January 12, 1958 in the Carmelite monastery. Frankfurt a. M. 1958.
  • Portrait and Custom. Studies on the image function of the effigies. Berlin 1966.
  • Falkensteiner Protocols. Documentation. Frankfurt am Main 1971.
  • Reverse glass painting. Munich 1976 (Ethnologia Bavarica 3).
  • Image of grace and legend. Cult change in Dimbach. Würzburg 1978 (Country and People 2).
  • Behind-glass pictures from Lower Franconian collections. For the special exhibition of the Mainfränkisches Museum Würzburg (February 25th - May 1st 1983). Würzburg 1983 (Mainfränkische Hefte 79).
  • “Work makes you free.” Origin and background of the concentration camp motto. Opladen 1998 (Otto von Freising lectures at the Catholic University of Eichstätt 13).
  • Culture and people. Concepts, problems, history of ideas. Würzburg 2000 (Publications on Folklore and Cultural History 77).
  • Images and the public. Aesthetic theorizing, museum practice, source criticism. Würzburg 2000 (Publications on Folklore and Cultural History 81).
  • Art and consumption. Mass image research. Würzburg 2000 (Publications on Folklore and Cultural History 82).
  • Cultural techniques. Non-verbal communication, legal symbols, religio carnalis. Würzburg 2000 (Publications on Folklore and Cultural History 85).
  • Piety and denomination. Understanding problems, ways of thinking, life practice. Würzburg 2000 (Publications on Folklore and Cultural History 86).
  • Stories and history. Communicating the world through narrative communication. Würzburg 2000 (Publications on Folklore and Cultural History 87).
  • Mass image research. A bibliography up to 1991/1995. Würzburg 2003 (Publications on Folklore and Cultural History 96).
  • Lutheran confessional paintings of the 17th and 18th centuries. Regensburg 2007
  • Rhön carved figures from the 19th century. Petersberg 2008
  • Pious Franconia. Wuerzburg 2008
  • The language of Christian images. Nuremberg 2010 (= cultural-historical walks in the Germanic National Museum. Volume 12). ISBN 978-3-936688-44-3 .

literature

  • Hermann Bausinger : Wolfgang Brückner. In: Encyclopedia of Fairy Tales . Vol. 2., Col. 842-844. (1979)
  • Bibliography and general index. Würzburg 2004. Supplements to the complete bibliography in: Folklore as Historical Cultural Studies, Supplements III. Würzburg 2010, pp. 485-511.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Christian Geyer: Wolfgang Brückner turns 90. Volkskunde ohne Volk , FAZ, March 14, 2020
  2. ^ Josef Brecht (Ed.): Friedrich-Koenig-Gymnasium Würzburg. Annual report 1976/77. Würzburg 1977, p. 21.
personal data
SURNAME Brückner, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German folklorist and Germanist
DATE OF BIRTH March 14, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Fulda