Rolf Wilhelm Brednich

Rolf Wilhelm Brednich ( born February 8, 1935 in Worms ) is a folklorist, song and narrative researchers.

Life

Brednich studied 1954-1960 folklore, German, History and Protestant theology at the universities of Tübingen and Mainz. In the last academic year, he received his doctorate with the work of folk tales and popular beliefs of the fate of women in Lutz Rohrich. He is a member of the Tübingen and Mainz Wingolfs.

From 1963 to 1980 he was a leading member of the German folk song archive in Freiburg, 1964, he became editor of the yearbook for folk song research. From 1965 to 1974 he was Chairman of the Commission for song, music and dance research in the German Folklore Society. From 1969 he taught at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau, and habilitated in 1973 in folklore with the two-volume work The song journalism in the leaflet from the 15th to the 17th century.

1975 was Brednich editor of Folklore Bibliography and taught from this year at the Freiburg Folklore Institute as associate professor until 1981, he was appointed to the Chair of Folklore at the Georg- August -Universität Göttingen.

In 1982 he became chief editor of the Encyclopedia of the fairy tale and co-editor of the journal Fabula. Between 1983 and 1999 he was chairman of the Ethnographic Commission for Niedersachsen eV, eV from 1991 to 1999 as well by the German Society of Ethnology. In 2000, he became Senior Honorary Research Fellow at the Stout Centre of Victoria University Wellington, New Zealand. Since 2005 he has been Visiting Professor of Anthropology at the School of Social and Cultural Studies that very university.

For the Institute for the Scientific Film, today, " IMF Media and Knowledge GmbH", he made ​​several documentaries on ethnographic topics.

Work as author

As the first German folklorist Brednich be employed with the narrative genre of modern legends. In addition, he gave a picture researchers out the " Gottingen Ausruff " of 1744 and the first time an image edition of the printed graphic Göttingen studbook leaves.

His first collection of modern word ( " The Spider in the Yucca " ) emerged from a project seminar at the University of Göttingen. The book has been published in an edition of 680,000 copies and is currently translated into several languages. In subsequent volumes, many of his readers were to co-authors, by having made ​​it through numerous letters orally circulating stories accessible.

Prizes and awards

  • 2004 - Brothers Grimm Prize of the University of Marburg
  • 2010 - European fairy tale price of Walter Kahn fairytale Foundation, Volkach

Works (selection)

  • Folk tales and popular beliefs of the fate of women. Helsinki 1964
  • The townspeople Ebermannsdorf song manuscript. Kulmbach 1972
  • Manual of the folk song. together with Lutz Rohrich and Wolfgang Suppan, 2 volumes; München 1973/1975
  • The song journalism in the leaflet from the 15th to the 17th century. 2 volumes Baden- Baden 1974-75.
  • The Darfelder Liederhandschrift 1546-1565. Münster 1976.
  • German comics. Freiburg / Breisgau in 1979.
  • Pfaff Weilerstein. A contribution to the study of stone carving on the Upper Rhine. Pfaffenweiler 1985
  • The Brothers Grimm in Göttingen from 1829 to 1837. Göttingen 1986.
  • The Spider in the Yucca. Legendary stories of today. Munich 1990
  • The mouse in the jumbo jet. New fabulous stories of today. Munich 1991
  • The chicken with the leg cast. Latest legendary stories of today. Munich 1993
  • Legendary stories of today. Munich 1994.
  • The rat at the straw. Latest Updates legendary stories of today. Munich 1996
  • Monuments of friendship. Göttingen studbook copper - Sources of cultural history. Niedernjesa 1997. ISBN 3980378314
  • The Hutterites. An alternative culture in the modern world. Freiburg 1998
  • Outline of folklore. Introduction to the research fields of European Ethnology. Berlin 2001. ISBN 3-496-02705-3
  • New Zealand is fun. An Annotated Anthology of New Zealand humor. 2nd edition, MANA -Verlag, Berlin, 2007. ISBN 978-3-93403104-3
  • Tie and Anger. Historic village squares in Lower Saxony, Thuringia, Hesse and Franconia. Friedland 2009
  • Penguins fabulous supine Brand-new stories of today. Munich 2004
  • Narrative culture. Contributions to cultural studies, narrative research. Berlin 2009
  • Golfing in New Zealand. A guide to the 80 most beautiful country courses. Berlin 2009
  • German in the South Seas. Eckart writings Issue 206, Austrian country team, Vienna 2012

Films (selection )

  • Rolf Wilhelm Brednich, Franz Simon: Central Europe, Baden. The Altweibermühle in Wolfacher carnival. E 2455 film of the IMF. Göttingen 1978. Publication by R. W. Brednich. Scientific publications to films, Section Ethnology, Series 9, No. 3 / E 2455 (1979 )
  • Rolf Wilhelm Brednich, Franz Simon: Central Europe, Baden. Wolfacher carnival. E 2801 film of the IMF. Göttingen 1984. Publication by R. W. Brednich. Scientific publications to films, Section Ethnology, Series 14, No. 1 / E 2801 (1984).
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