Wolfgang Kaschuba

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Wolfgang Kaschuba (2018)

Wolfgang Kaschuba (born January 1, 1950 in Göppingen ) is a German cultural scientist and folklorist .

Career

After graduating from high school in 1968, Kashuba began studying at the University of Tübingen . First he studied political science and English, later he switched to empirical cultural studies and philosophy. In 1982 Kashuba received his doctorate. In 1987 he completed his habilitation in empirical cultural studies / folklore at the University of Tübingen. Since 1992 he has been Professor of European Ethnology at the Humboldt University in Berlin. From 2015 to 2018 he was director of the Berlin Institute for Empirical Integration and Migration Research (BIM), whose department "Integration, Social Networks and Cultural Lifestyles" he continues to head.

Kaschuba is editor of the series Berliner Ethnographische Studien und Zeithorizonte in LIT Verlag Münster.

Since 2014 he has been a board member of the German UNESCO Commission, where he heads the specialist committee for culture. He is a member of the Migration Council and a member of the BerlinForum of the Stiftung Zukunft Berlin .

Publications

  • Overcoming the distance. Time and space in European modernity (= European history ), Fischer, Frankfurt / M. 2004.
  • Introduction to European Ethnology . Munich 1999, 2nd edition 2003, 3rd edition 2006, 4th edition 2012.
  • Edited together with Beate Binder and Peter Niedermüller: Staging of the National. History, culture and the politics of identities at the end of the 20th century (= everyday life & culture , volume 7), Cologne 2001.
  • Edited together with Kaspar Maase : Trash and Beauty. Popular culture around 1900 (= everyday life & culture , volume 8), Cologne 2001.
  • Ed. Together with Klaus Steinitz : Wolfgang Steinitz. I was incredibly lucky. A life between science and politics. Karl Dietz, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-320-02905-3 .
  • The world and culture of the lower middle class in the 19th and 20th centuries (= Encyclopedia of German History , Vol. 5) OLdenbourg, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-486-55441-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Kaschuba. In: Berlin Institute for Empirical Integration and Migration Research. Humboldt University of Berlin. Faculty of Culture, Social Sciences and Education, accessed on July 22, 2019 .
  2. ↑ series of publications: time horizons. Perspectives of European Ethnology .
  3. ↑ Wolfgang Kaschuba elected to the board of the German UNESCO Commission. In: Institute for European Ethnology. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, accessed on July 22, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Board of Directors. In: German UNESCO Commission. March 2019, accessed July 22, 2019 .
  5. ↑ https://rat-fuer-migration.de/verbindungen/ .
  6. ↑ participants. In: BerlinForum. Project office Berlin-Forum. Stiftung Zukunft Berlin, accessed on July 22, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Kashuba, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cultural scientist and folklorist
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Goeppingen