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Prof Dr. Michael Prosser-Schell

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Unscheduled professorship at the University of Freiburg

Researcher at the Institute of Folklore of the Germans of Eastern Europe (IVDE) Freiburg

Service address: IVDE, Goethestraße 63, Freiburg

Telephone: 0761 / 70443-12

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Research interests:

  • Orality/memory culture - written form - media history;
  • History of popular religious culture in Central Europe;
  • Ritual research, in particular about sporting events as popular festivals of the present day;
  • Migration research, especially on flight and expulsion after World War II
  • Southwestern Germany and extended Upper Rhine region;
  • Danube Region / Carpathian Basin

 

Current research projects:

  • The renaissance of Hungarian-German rural architecture in the present
  • Integration and religious culture: pilgrimage events of refugees and displaced persons in southwestern Germany (project based at IVDE Freiburg).
  • Migration and Football (project in cooperation with the Alemannic Institute Freiburg)

 

Biographical:

  • Born 1960
  • Study of Folklore, History and German Studies at the Universities of Freiburg i.Br. and Würzburg 1981-1987
  • Doctoral studies at the University of Freiburg i.Br. 1987-1990. Dissertation: "Late medieval rural legal records on the Upper Rhine between memory culture and writing". Doctorate in Folklore, History and Linguistics 1991.
  • Conception, construction and management of the exhibitions 500 years Glotterbad 1488-1988 and 30 years Clinic for Rehabilitation Glotterbad 1988/1990
  • Contract employee at the Johannes Künzig Institute for East German Folklore in Freiburg i. Br. 1989
  • Research Assistant at the Department of Folklore of the University of Regensburg 1991-1997
  • Habilitation scholarship of the DFG 1998.
  • Lecturer at the Institute of Folklore of the University of Regensburg 1998-2000.
  • Research assistant at the Department of Folklore of the University of Würzburg 2000-2001
  • Completed the habilitation procedure and obtained the teaching license at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Würzburg. 2002 Habilitation Thesis: "Sport and Social Sense System. On the influence of Bundesliga football events on the popular culture of the present-day "
  • Teaching 2002-2004 at the Department of Folklore / European Ethnology (Institute of German Philology) of the University of Würzburg, at the Department of Folklore / European Ethnology of the University of Bamberg, for Folklore / European Ethnology at the Faculty of Education, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
  • Researcher at the IVDE Freiburg (formerly Johannes-Künzig-Institute for German and Eastern European Folklore in Freiburg / Brsg.) Since 2004
  • Extraordinary professorship at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg since 2009
  • Reviewer for (among others): the State of Baden-Wuerttemberg, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, AUB Budapest, German Academic Exchange Service, German Research Foundation, Hungarian State Foundation for Science and Research (OTKA) / National Research, Development and Innovation Office Hungary (NKFIH).
  • Admission as "Foreign Member" in the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA) 2012
  • Research and lecture stay as a scholarship holder of the MTA and in cooperation with the Institute of Folklore / Cultural Anthropology of the University of Szeged in autumn semester 2012
  • ERASMUS exchange teacher at the University of Szeged in the spring semester 2014
  • Teaching and research at the Institute of German Studies at the ELTE University Budapest in the spring semester 2017

 

Memberships / Scientific Advisory Board:

  • Commission for German and Eastern European Folklore in the German Folklore Society; Regensburger Verein für Volkskunde; Gorres Society for the Care of Science; Magyar Néprajzi Társaság (Hungarian Folklore Society, Foreign Honorary Member); Foreign Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA)
  • Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the "Acta Ethnologica Danubiana" (Yearbook of the Center for European Ethnology Komarno / Komárom); Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the "Yearbook Religion, Culture, Society" of the "Research Group for the Study of Religious Culture" of the MTA; Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Alemannic Institute Freiburg / Tübingen

 

Supervised dissertations:

  • Harald Stahl: "... the tall trees and the undergrowth and the dead ...". Forest awareness and wilderness culture (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, WiSe 2016/17).
  • Sebastian Felix Sparwasser: Identity in the field of forced migration and homecoming, Hungarian-German displaced persons and remigration (WiSe 2016/17, AUB Budapest).

 

Monographs

  • Late medieval rural legal records on the Upper Rhine between memory culture and written form. Investigations on the transition from illiterate to scriptural traditions in the field of legal folklore, Würzburg 1991
  • (= Publications on Folklore and Cultural History, Vol. 47).
  • Sport and social sense system. On the influence of the Bundesliga football events on the popular culture of the present-day (unpublished postdoctoral thesis, typescript, University of Würzburg, 2001)
  • From "this Sancti Urbani" to "Orbán-napi Borünnep" in Hajós. History and transformations of the urban festival from a folkloristic perspective. Freiburg 2009 (= Series of the Johannes Künzig Institute, Vol 10).

 

Edited:

  • (Michael Prosser together with Jörg-Michael Herrmann): The history of the Glotterbades. Freiburg i.Br. 1988th
  • (Michael Prosser together with Csilla Schell): Fest, custom, identity / Ünnep, szokás, identitás. Hungarian-German contact fields. Contributions to the Institute Conference 8.-10. June 2005 of the Johannes-Künzig-Institut Freiburg / Brsg. Freiburg 2008 (= Series of the Johannes Künzig Institute, Vol 9).
  • Scenic designs of Christian festivals. Contributions from the Carpathian Basin and Germany. Proceedings of the eponymous international scientific conference in the Johannes-Künzig-Institut Freiburg, 9.-11. November 2008 in cooperation with the University of Freiburg. Münster: Waxmann 2011 (= Series of the Johannes Künzig Institute, Vol 13).
  • Symbolic natural landscapes and natural landmarks in historic settlement areas with Germans in eastern Europe. Selected aspects. Münster 2014. (= Series of the Institute of Folklore of the Germans of Eastern Europe, Vol. 15).
  • Popular religious culture, conflict and self-assurance in multi-ethnic and multi-faith immigration areas. Selected recent research and documentation with a focus on the Middle Danube Region. Münster 2016
  • (= Series of the Institute of Folklore of the Germans of Eastern Europe, Vol. 17).
  • Co-editor of the "Yearbook for German and Eastern European Folklore", vols. 47-58 (2005-2017).

 

Essays, manual articles, conference and encyclopedia articles (selection):

  • Michael Prosser-Schell: "If he does not solve this vich ... so you should put water on the úbertúr, and how of the first place". Strange-looking articles on the handling of animals in the "Direct" and "Offerings" texts of the late Middle Ages in the Upper Rhine region. In: The Animal in Legal History, ed. v. Andreas Deutsch / Peter König on behalf of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences. Heidelberg 2017 (= Series of the German Law Dictionary, 27), pp. 243-263.
  • Martinswege, Martinsdenkmal, and Martinstag-Heortologie. (European Ethnological Research Report and Commentary on the Martini Year 2016 and a Remarkable Meeting in Vác.) In: Eruditio-Educatio, No. 11, Vol. 3 (2016), pp. 5-13.
  • Renaissance modern de la fête du vin à la Saint-Urbain á Hajós en Hongrie. In: Jocelyne Bonnet-Carbonell (ed.): Patrimoine vigneron européen, oenotourisme et partage du vin. Paris 2016, pp. 105-112.
  • Arrival and integration of the Hungarian-German displaced persons in south-west Germany 1946-1960. In: Frank Spengler / Bence Bauer (ed.): Integration or further discrimination? The situation of Germans in the Carpathian Basin in the 1950s. Budapest 2016, pp. 11-25.
  • (together with Gábor Barna): The renovation of the pilgrimage church Maria Radna and the opening ceremony on 2 August 2015. In: Michael Prosser-Schell (ed.): Popular religious culture, conflicts, and self-assurance in multi-ethnic and multi-confessional immigration areas. Selected recent research and documentation with a focus on the Middle Danube Region. Münster 2016, p. 159-174.
  • Politics, Feasts, Festivals. Commentary on the new anthology of the SIEF working group 'The Ritual Year' from a cultural-anthropological perspective. In: Hungary Yearbook. Journal of Interdisciplinary Hungarology, 32 (2014/2015), pp. 267-276.
  • Records of fabulous narrative pieces by Jenö Bonomi and Anna Loschdorfer in the IVDE Freiburg. Minority folklore of Germans in Hungary in the inter-war period. In: Anikó Szilágyi-Kósa et al. (Ed.): Transformation through Migration. Proceedings of the International Conference "Societal, Linguistic and Cultural Changes in the Course of Migration Processes", German Studies Institute of the University of Veszprém, 25.-26. September 2014. Veszprém 2016, pp. 87-110.
  • Research and research opportunities with the estate Karasek in the IVDE Freiburg. Newer results and findings. In: Hans-Werner Retterath (ed.): Additions. Folklore research on the Germans in and from Eastern Europe (series of publications of the IVDE, 16), Münster 2015, p. 159-193.
  • Art., Tenth '. In: Encyclopedia of the fairy tale. Hand dictionary for historical and comparative narrative research, Vol. 14, ed. v. Rolf-Wilhelm Brednich. Berlin / Boston 2014, Sp. 1218-1222.
  • Pilgrimage Events for the Hungarian Germans / Danube Swabians in the north of the archbishopric of Freiburg after World War II: Walldürn and the "Paulusheim" near Bruchsal. In: Barna, Gábor / Povedák, Kinga (eds.): Lelkiségek, lelkiségi mozgalmak Magyarországon és Kelet-Közép-Európában / Spirituality and spiritual movements in Hungary and Eastern Central Europe. (Bibliotheca Religionis Popularis Szegediensis), Szeged 2014, pp. 315-325.
  • Arnold van Gennep (1873-1957) and the virtual border area where the souls of unchristian deceased children stay. In: Acta Ethnographica Hungarica, 58 (2013), pp. 203-219.
  • Folklore / European Ethnology and the "Danube Swabians" research. Selected principled and exemplary problems. In: Yearbook of European Ethnology, 8 (2013), pp. 199-212.
  • The "Hofrotel von Andlau" 1284 and related sources as reference texts for the medieval personal tradition of culture. In: The gate. Contributions to religion, churches, and ecumenism in Kenzingen, 32./33. Jg. (2012/2013), pp. 61-72.
  • Child mortality in the 19th and early 20th centuries. In: Fischer, Kathrin / Margarete Jochimsen (ed.): Box pictures commemorating marriage and death. The fascination of an old custom. Münster 2013, pp. 94-95.
  • The Revival of the Saint-Urban's Festival. Drawing on early modern history in the current cultural representation of winemaking in Hajós, Hungary. In: Acta Ethnographica Hungarica, 58, H. 2 (2013), pp. 359-367
  • "Minority issues in Hungary and neighboring countries in the 20th and 21st centuries. Conference of the Danube Institute for Interdisciplinary Research at Andrássy University Budapest, 21.-22. February 2013. In: Yearbook for German and Eastern European Folklore, 54 (2013), p. 178-185.
  • Expellees pilgrimages. Aspects of folklore research with special reference to the Archdiocese of Freiburg and the Danube Swabians. In: Benedikt Kranemann (ed.): Liturgy and Migration. The importance of liturgy and piety in the integration of migrants in German-speaking countries. Stuttgart 2012, pp. 188-216.
  • Patron saint and custom forms of winegrowers on St. Urban Day. Phenomena of the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period with an outlook on the present in Franconia. In: Weber, Andreas Otto / Jesko Earl of Dohna (ed.): The history of Franconian viticulture. From the beginning to the present. Nuremberg 2012, p. 381-407.
  • From the Triglav to the Ararat: Symbolic phenomena of crystallization of the natural world in former settlement regions with Germans in Eastern Europe. In: Acta Ethnologica Danubiana. Az Etnológiai Központ Évkönyve. Vol. 14 (2012), pp. 245-249.
  • Arnold van Gennep (1873-1957): aspects of the further impact of his concepts. Try a short sketch. In: Yearbook of European Ethnology, N.F., 6 (2011), pp. 35-48.
  • Arnold van Gennep and the virtual border area where the souls of unchristian deceased children stay. In: Barna, Gábor (ed.): Border Regions [conference proceedings, in the press, is expected to appear Szeged 2011].
  • Hugo Ott and Hettingen. In: "80tt - individual memory becomes a collective memory." On the occasion of the 80th birthday of Hugo Ott on August 20, 2011, by Hermann Schäfer / Michael Schleiner / Winfried Halder, o.O. [Freiburg] 2011, pp. 125-131.
  • Folklore-cultural anthropological approaches to the "mystery play". New aspects to a classical research field of solid research. In: Acta Ethnologia Danubiana. Az Etnológiai Központ Évkönyve. Vol. 13 (2011), pp. 35-54.
  • (with the collaboration of Tilman Kasten / Cornelia Wolf): The spiritual spectacle as part of the Christian festival. Notes and findings on a classical problem of folklore cultural analysis - taking into account holdings of the Johannes Künzig Institute from the Danube Swabian area. In: Scenic designs of Christian festivals. Contributions from the Carpathian Basin and Germany. Proceedings of the international scientific conference of the same name at the Johannes-Künzig-Institut Freiburg 9.-11. November 2008 in cooperation with the University of Freiburg. Münster: Waxmann 2011, pp. 157-187.
  • Arrival and resettlement of refugees and displaced persons in North Baden 1945-1949: selected cultural problem areas. In: Mobility: Europe on the move as a challenge for cultural research. Congress Volume 37th Congress of the German Folklore Society 27th-30th September 2009 in Freiburg, ed. v. Reinhard Johler / Max Matter / Sabine Zinn-Thomas. Münster 2011, p. 491-500.
  • Pilgrimages as events of the cultural self-assertion of refugees and displaced persons in Baden and Württemberg (1946-1952). In: Alzheimer, Heidrun / Rausch, Fred / Reder, Klaus / Selheim, Claudia (Hgg.): Pictures - Things - Mentalities. Fields of work of historical cultural sciences. Festschrift Wolfgang Brückner's 80th birthday. Regensburg 2010, pp. 165-172.
  • Magyarországi németek búcsújárásai a II. Világháború után [pilgrimages of Hungarian Germans after World War II]. In: Olvasó: tanulmányok a 60 esztendős Barna Gábor tiszteletére [Reader: Studies in honor of the 60th birthday of Gábor Barna]. Ed. V. Mód, László / Simon, András. Szeged 2010, pp. 62-70.
  • Report and Commentary on the International German Studies Conference "Interactions: German-Language Literature and Culture in a Regional and International Context" in Pécs / Hungary, v. Chr. September 9-11, 2010. In: Acta Ethnologia Danubiana. Az Etnológiai Központ Évkönyve. Vol. 12 (2010), pp. 189-191.
  • Sankt Urban - patron saint of winemakers and vineyards. In: Regensburg country. The district of Regensburg in history and the present. Volume 2 (2009), p. 171-182.
  • (together with Csilla Schell) Connecting Traditions. St. Urban festivals in Baden-Württemberg and in the Carpathian Basin. In: Márta Fata (ed.): "The ships are already ready". Ulm and the emigration to Hungary in the 18th century (= Research on the history of the city of Ulm, series Documentations, Vol 13). Ulm / Stuttgart 2009, pp. 73-92.
  • Ideas about the soul-existence of the unbaptized children in the late Middle Ages and early modern times. Written documents on theory and actions. In: Marion Kobelt-Groch, Cornelia Niekus Moore (ed.): Death and hereafter in the written culture of the early modern period [papers and contributions to a workshop d. Duke August Library Wolfenbüttel, 3.-5. May 2006]. Wiesbaden 2008, pp. 183-199.
  • The wedding baths or "Breutelbäder". A late medieval custom. In: Hessian State Museum Darmstadt / Walter Stolle (ed.): Love, lust and frustration. [Accompanying volume to the exhibition of the same name by the Hessian State Museum Darmstadt / Folklore Collection in the Museum Center Lorsch. Darmstadt 2008, pp. 78-83.
  • Power plant popular. The self-furnishing with electricity in a rural community 1900-1952. In: Bayerische Blätter fur Volkskunde, 10th New Episode (2006/07), Würzburg 2008 [at the same time Festschrift Christoph Daxelmüller 60th birthday], pp. 184-199.
  • (together with Werner Mezger): European Festival Research, European Ethnology and the online database "Folklore Europaea" - a project outline. In: Csilla Schell / Michael Prosser (ed.): "Festival, custom, identity / Ünnep, szokás, identitás." Hungarian-German contact fields. Contributions to the Institute Conference 8.-10. June 2005 of the Johannes-Künzig-Institut Freiburg / Brsg. Freiburg 2008, p.183-200.
  • Ritual research and narrative research. A methodical example with texts from the stock "Hungary" of the 'Karasek saga collection'. In: Csilla Schell / Michael Prosser (ed.): "Festival, custom, identity / Ünnep, szokás, identitás." Hungarian-German contact fields. Contributions to the Institute Conference 8.-10. June 2005 of the Johannes-Künzig-Institut Freiburg / Brsg. Freiburg 2008, p. 235-284.
  • Chapter "Space" [places of pilgrimage / crusades / shrines, statues and chapels / cemeteries and war memorials / churches and chapels at spa resorts]. In: Handbook of religious history in German-speaking countries, ed. v. Peter Dinzelbacher: Here Bd. 5 (1750-1900), ed. v. Michael Pammer, Paderborn 2007, pp. 319-335.
  • Sacralization of Landscape: The Presence of Religious Buildings in the Catholic Area 1750-1900 [adapted version of Title No. 49]. In: Historicum. Journal of History, 2005/2006: places of remembrance I, p. 16-30, Linz 2007.
  • To change the function and the traditional value of legends texts. An exemplary problem statement from the 'Karasek Collection'. In: Yearbook of European Ethnology, 2 (2007), pp. 45-62.
  • The feast Sancti Urbani. New findings with special consideration of Hungary. In: Yearbook of European Ethnology 1 (2006), pp. 29-58.
  • St. Urban corridor monuments in wine-growing regions of the Carpathian Basin. Recent findings on her research in the past and present from Hungary. In: Yearbook for German and Eastern European Folklore, 48 (2006). Pp. 151-178.
  • Cemeteries of an 'untimely' death. Stillborn children and the problem of their burial places. In: Necropolis: The cemetery as a place of the dead and the living. Stuttgart 2005 (= Irseer dialogues, Bd. 10), P. 125-146.
  • Aspects of rural sources of law: Toboggan, police regulations and judges' meeting of St. Peter in the Black Forest. In: Manfred Seifert / Winfried Helm (ed.): Law and Religion in Everyday Life. Perspectives of cultural research. Fs. F. Walter Hartinger on his 65th birthday. Passau 2005, pp. 97-112.
  • The votive wall of the chapel "St. Salvator im Emmaus "(popular" Maria Läng-Kapelle ") in Regensburg. In: Bavarian Leaves for Folklore, N.F. 7, H. 1-2 (2005), p. 34-44.
  • Report and commentary: Zbozné putování v evropské kulture / Pilgrimages in European culture. [International Conference May 26 - May 29, 2004 in Pribram / Czech Republic.] In: Yearbook of German and Eastern European Folklore, 48 (2005), pp. 217-227.
  • The Triumph in Football: popular mundane processions in the 20th century. In: Yearbook of Folklore, Jg. 2004, p. 177-190.
  • The football event as a festive and "storytelling" event. Reflections on a posthumous concept by Alfred Karasek-Langer and on the 1954 World Cup meeting in Hungary and Germany. In: Yearbook for German and Eastern European Folklore, 47 (2004), pp. 89-122.
  • Revival baptism. Infant mortality and pilgrimage for dead children in pre-modern times. In: Bavarian Yearbook of Folklore, 2003, p.101-138.
  • Ethnographic Assessments in the Age of Humanism: 500 Years of Printing by Conrad Celtis' "Amores". In: Bavarian Leaves for Folklore, Jg. N.F. 5, H. 2 (2002), pp. 70-75.
  • 'Football Delight' at the stadium visit. On the ritual-festive character of football events in Germany. In: Markwart Herzog (ed.): Football as a Cultural Phenomenon: Art - Cult - Commerce, Stuttgart 2002, p.269-292.
  • (together with Michael Bärmann): Antonius von Pforr and Margrave Rudolf IV von Hachberg. A newly discovered testimony to the author of the book of examples. In: Daphnis. 31 (2002), pp. 107-126.
  • City and stadium. Aspects of the development of the spectator festival "football event" in Germany. In: Urban Worlds. Speeches of the Austrian Folklore Conference 1998 in Linz. Hg.v. Olaf Bockhorn, Gunter Dimt, Edith Hörandner, Vienna 1999, p.435-450.
  • Open-air museums and academic folklore. Keywords on the subject in academic operation from the Bavarian perspective. In: How do the others see us? External effects of the Baden-Württemberg open-air museums. Conference proceedings. Ed. V. d. Working Group of the regional rural open-air museums in Baden-Wuerttemberg, Biberach 1999, p.24-38.
  • Post "Folklore". In: Studienführer History, Art and Ancient Studies, ed. v. Heinz-Jürgen Beyer, Munich, 3rd, actual. Edition Würzburg 1998, pp. 175-183.
  • Several articles since 1995 for the real lexicon of Germanic antiquity, begr.v. Johannes Hoops, 2nd, new edition. Edition, hg.v. Heinrich Beck et al., Berlin 1973 ff .: Article "First pillar", in: Volume 9 (1996), p.118-119; "Sunken Cultural Property", in: Volume 11 (1998), p.559-563; "Cooperative / Municipality", in: Volume 11 (1998), p.1-3; "Gennep, Arnold van", in: Vol. 11 (1998), pp. 70-7; "Grundherrschaft", in: Volume 13 (1999), p.112-119; "Heyne, Moritz", in: Volume 14 (1999), p.548-550; "Historical saga review", in: Volume 14 (1999), pp. 628-631.
  • Rabbi Judah ben Samuel he-chasid of Regensburg. His time, his world, his meaning. Report on the International Symposium in Regensburg October 23-25, 1995. In: Zeitschrift fur Volkskunde, 92 (1996), p.247-249.
  • Why is illiterate memory culture supposedly folk or magical and not functional? Measures in late medieval rural law sources. In: Yearbook of Folklore, commissioned by the Gorres Society hg. v. Wolfgang Brückner / Nikolaus Grass, N.F. 19 (1996), p.184-195.
  • The attraction of the danger of death during sports. In: Christoph Daxelmüller (ed.): Death and Society - Death in Transition: Accompanying Guide to the Exhibition in the Diocesan Museum Regensburg, 8.11. - 22.12.1996, Regensburg 1996, p.141-148.
  • Musealization. Reflections on a current trend. In: Forum Nabburg, 16 (1995/96), pp. 36-46.
  • Sociable body care as an aspect of everyday culture in late medieval Regensburg. At the same time a contribution to the history of the baths. In: Regensburg in the Middle Ages, Bd.1: Contributions to the city's history from the early Middle Ages to the beginning of modern times, ed. v. Martin Angerer / Heinrich Wanderwitz, Regensburg 1995, p.293-301.
  • "The salt in the soup" - aspects of folkloristic-cultural-scientific food research around the salt. In: Salt Makes History. Essays, hg.v. Manfred Treml, Wolfgang Jahn, Evamaria Brockhoff, Augsburg 1995, p.56-61. (Accompanying volume to the state exhibition "Salt in Bavaria" 1995)
  • The Dinggerichtsversammlung as a representation of the emerging Glottertal valleys in the late Middle Ages. In: Bernhard Hoch / Michael Prosser / Klaus Schneider / Hubert Strecker: The Glottertal. History and memories. Contributions to the 25th anniversary of the entire community of Glottertal, Freiburg i.Br. 1995, pp. 37-51.
  • "... that will give you a crazy kick!" Bundesliga football and violence in audiences circles. In: "Eleven friends you must be!": Objections and impulses to the German football history, Freiburg 1995 (= Geschichtswerkstatt, 28), p.11-26.
  • Thoughts on the forms of mediation of rural-rural cultural history in the Freilandsmuseum Neusath-Perschen. In: Forum Nabburg, 15 (1994), pp. 42-59.
  • The relationship between culture and nature. Cultural landscape presentation in open-air museums. In: Bavarian Leaves for Folklore. 21.Jg. (1994), p.231-234.
  • The brat as Meier in the upper Glottertal. A contribution to the legal history of the Gehrenhof. In: 30 years Clinic for Rehabilitation Glotterbad the State Insurance Institution Württemberg, hg. v. d. Clinic for Rehabilitation Glotterbad, Glottertal 1990, S.9-16.
  • Post "Folklore". In: Studienführer History, Art and Ancient Studies, ed. v. Heinz-Jürgen Beyer, Munich, 2.Aufl. 1992, p.173-180.
  • The phenomenon "Schwarzwaldklinik". In: Contributions to Folklore in Baden-Württemberg, 5 (1993), pp. 97-143.
  • Forchheim in the Middle Ages. In: Forchheim at the Kaiserstuhl. For the 1225th anniversary of his first written mention, ed. v. d. Community Forchheim, Forchheim 1987, S.9-39.
  • The history of the Glotterbades. In: Jörg-Michael Herrmann / Michael Prosser (ed.): Glotterbad 1488-1988. For the 500th anniversary of his first written mention, Freiburg i.Br. 1988, pp. 10-47.

 

Lectures (selection, last 3 years):

  • "Expellees pilgrimages. Their importance in the integration of migrants in German-speaking countries. "Meeting" Flight, trauma and trauma coping. Interdisciplinary Approaches in Trauma Management as the First Step to Forgiveness and Reconciliation ", Caritas-Tagungszentrum Freiburg, 25. 03. 2017.
  • "Cultural landmarks along the upper Danube river in southern Germany." Cultural studies, folklore, history lectures at the German Institute of ELTE Budapest, 21.02.2017.
  • "Current Integration Issues and Football as a Landmark" Interdisciplinary Conference "Migrations in the Alemannic Space" of the Alemannic Institute Freiburg in cooperation with the IVDE Freiburg and the City of Lahr, Lahr 17. 03. 2017
  • "Arrival, emergencies, and integration of the Germans of Hungary in southern Germany after 1945 - aspects of the everyday and festive culture". Lecture on the Week of German Culture at the ELTE University Budapest, 09.11.2016.
  • "Internment, deportation, repatriation of the Swabians from the southern Batschka and the Banat area after the Second World War - materials and surveys in the IVDE Freiburg.
  • An international conference with monument inauguration "Remembering - Swabians in the Soviet Forced Labor Camps", Erseki Kastély-Hajós / Hungary, 02.11.2016.
  • "Folklorization of the German minority in Hungary? The example of the wine cellar village of Hajós / Hajosch in the Batschka 1967- 2016. "Conference of the Commission for the History and Culture of Germans in Southeastern Europe:" Nation-state and ethnic homogenization. Hungary and Romania compared to 1950 ", University of Innsbruck, 07.10.2016.
  • "Arrival and Integration of the Hungarian-German Expellees in South-West Germany 1946-1960." International Symposium of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation and the State Self-Administration of the Hungarian Germans in Cooperation with the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budaörs Congress Center / Hungary, 19.01.2016.
  • "L'institut d'ethnologie des Allemands d'Europe de l'est Friborg en-Brisgau, le IVDE." International meeting of the Historical Institute of Strasbourg University and others. CNRSS Paris, "Europe Mediane dans l'Europe", University of Strasbourg, 29.01.2016.
  • "Possibilities of incorporating Hungarian-German materials of the IVDE Freiburg in philological and folkloric teaching German as a minority language." Guest Lecture Pedagogical Faculty of the ELTE University Budapest, 05.10.2015.
  • "Aspects of the pilgrimage of the expellees and repatriates to Walldürn." Theme Day "70. Pilgrimage of the expellees Walldürn. Topics and Fields of Folklore-Cultural-Anthropological Piety Research ", IVDE Freiburg, 22.06.2015.
  • "Internálótáborok és népi kultúra. A dunai svábok kulturális aktivitásai az internálótáborokban 1944-952 között ". Guest lecture on the "Folklore History of Science" at the Institute of Folklore / Cultural Anthropology of the ELTE University Budapest, 21.04.2015.
  • "New urban festivals since the 1970s: Hajós (Bácska) - Kintzheim (Alsasce) - Durbach (Ortenau)." Conference "Found and invented local festivals and festivals after the turnaround: between 'ethnobusiness' and self-assurance', Freiburg, 21.09 .2015.
  • "Cultural identity under emergency conditions: spectacles of the Danube Swabians in internment camps of the Southern Batchka and the Banat." Theme Day "Malenkij Robot: Deportation of Germans and Hungarians 1944/1945" IVDE Freiburg, 18.11.2014.
  • "Futball Fesztival". Guest lecture at the Institute of Folklore / Cultural Anthropology University of Szeged, 16.04.2014.
  • "The role of the animal in the Weistümern." Meeting of the Research Center DRW "The Animal in Legal History", Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, 03.04.2014.
  • "The records of legendary narrative pieces by Jenő Bonomi and Anna Loschdorfer in the IVDE Freiburg: minority folklore of the 1930s in Hungary from today's perspective." Conference "Social, linguistic and cultural changes in the course of migration processes", University of Veszprém / Hungary 26.09.2014.