Wolfgang Jacobeit

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Wolfgang Jacobeit (born May 13, 1921 in Naumburg ; † July 29, 2018 in Fürstenberg / Havel ) was a German folklorist . From 1972 to 1980 he headed the Museum of Folklore in East Berlin . From 1980 to 1986 he was a professor of ethnography at the Humboldt University in Berlin .

Life

After Wolfgang Jacobeit had campaigned for the Museum für Volkskunde as part of his work at the Academy of Sciences of the GDR , he succeeded Ulrich Steinmann as its director in 1972 . Under his leadership, the museum's exhibition program was intensified. Until then, isolated or accidentally available rooms were mainly used for exhibitions; Jacobeit, however, decided to hold the exhibitions in the only room of the museum in the Pergamon Museum . He also sent shows like Women in Africa and The Sorbs in the GDR. From the life of the smallest Slavic people on tour through other museums in the GDR.

The insufficient spatial situation of the museum, the closing times due to the construction and dismantling of the exhibitions, some of which were not covered with the holdings of the Museum für Volkskunde, led to deficits in other areas of the museum work under Jacobeit's direction. For example, the number of acquisitions decreased significantly. In order to enable continuous and comprehensive museum work, Jacobeit tried to find suitable rooms, but the museum was still denied it. Instead, priority was given to expanding the Wandlitz branch with the agricultural study collection. In the mid-1970s, it merged with the Wandlitzer Heimatmuseum to become the museum of agricultural productive forces . Jacobeit did not succeed in integrating this institution into the State Museums in Berlin. That is why the Museum of Agrarian Productive Forces was taken over by the Frankfurt / Oder district in 1979 , while the objects in the Museum of Folklore remained there on permanent loan. In February 1980, Wolfgang Jacobeit gave up the management of the Museum für Volkskunde when he accepted the chair for ethnography at the Humboldt University in Berlin . He held this professorship until 1986. He was succeeded by Erika Karasek . As part of his professorship, he participated in the realignment of the collection concept and the collecting activities of the Museum of Folklore, which was subsequently increasingly geared towards the material culture of the proletariat .

Publications

  • Sheep farming and shepherds in Central Europe until the beginning of the 20th century , Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1961.
  • Farm work and economy. A contribution to the scientific history of German folklore , Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1965.
  • Problems and methods of contemporary folklore research. Lectures and discussions at an international workshop in Bad Saarow 1967 , Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1969.
  • In memory of Adolf Reichwein ( 1898-1944 ) , in: Neue Museumskunde, Vol. 17, No. 4 (1974), pp. 299–303.
  • The Museum of Agrarian Productive Forces Wandlitz , in: Neue Museumskunde, Vol. 20, No. 3 (1977), pp. 176-185.
  • Building festivals - celebrating festivals , Berlin House for Cultural Work, Berlin 1986.
  • Idyll or departure? The village in the bourgeois 19th century. A European comparison , Akademie-verlag, Berlin 1990.
  • The biodynamic economy in the concentration camp. The goods of the "German Research Institute for Food and Meals" of the SS from 1939 to 1945 , Trafo-Verlag, Berlin 1999.
  • Wanderschafhaltung , in: Unser Europa, Vol. 29 (1999), pp. 109–114.
  • From west to east - and back. Autobiographical work by a border crosser between tradition and novation , Westfälisches Dampfboot, Münster 2000.
  • Science-historical sketches and collages by an ethnologist in the 20th / 21st centuries Century , Westphalian steam boat, Münster 2016.

literature

  • Erika Karasek : A Century of Commitment to Folklore 1889–1989 , in: Museum for Folklore (Hrsg.), Clothing between costume and fashion. From the history of the museum 1889–1989 , Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Berlin 1989, pp. 5–48.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Erika Karasek, A Century of Commitment to Folklore 1889-1989 , in: Museum for Folklore (Hrsg.), Clothing between costume and fashion. From the history of the museum 1889-1989 , Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Berlin 1989, pp. 5–48, here: pp. 23 and 24.
  2. ↑ a b Erika Karasek, A Century of Commitment to Folklore 1889-1989 , in: Museum for Folklore (Ed.), Clothing Between Tracht and Mode. From the history of the museum 1889-1989 , Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Berlin 1989, pp. 5–48, here: p. 24.
personal data
SURNAME Jacobeit, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German folklorist, director of the Museum for Folklore in East Berlin, professor at the Humboldt University in Berlin
DATE OF BIRTH May 13, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Naumburg
DATE OF DEATH 29th July 2018
Place of death Fürstenberg / Havel