Wolfgang Steinitz
Wolfgang Steinitz | |
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Breslau, Germany (now Poland) | |
Died | 21 April 1967 | (aged 62)
Nationality | German |
Occupation(s) | Ethnologist, linguist |
Known for | Der große Steinitz – Deutsche Volkslieder demokratischen Charakters aus sechs Jahrhunderten |
Wolfgang Steinitz (28 February 1905 – 21 April 1967) was a German
Biography
Steinitz was born on 28 February 1905 in
Steinitz returned to Berlin in 1946, and became professor of Finno-Ugrian languages at Humboldt University.[3] Steinitz held many different scientific and political positions in East Germany, including heading the Finno-Ugric Institute of East Berlin's
Work
Finno-Ugric people
Steinitz investigated the peoples speaking Finno-Ugric languages during his time in Leningrad, particularly the languages and cultures of the Ugric
Music Research
Another focus of Steinitz's work was the collection of German folk songs that were directed against war, oppression, and misery, from the songs of the Silesian weavers to soldier songs of the Thirty Years' War, peasant complaints, songs about desertion or about contemporary events such as the revolution of 1848. He soon came in contact with little-known folk song traditions on the theme of the misery of the Silesian weavers. Steinitz's German folk songs of a Democratic Character from Six Centuries appeared in 1954 and 1962 in East Berlin. The full collection of 180 songs was published after Steinitz's sudden death in 1967.
The rediscovered "democratic people's songs" were the most influential works of the German folk revival of the 1970s. Artists like Peter Rohland, Hein & Oss Kröher, Liederjan, Zupfgeigenhansel, Hannes Wader and many others made use of Steinitz's collection, as the work revealed afresh that "folk" songs traditionally are against war, oppression, and terror. In East Germany, Steinitz's work was an important source for the folk movement. In particular, anti-military songs like "King of Prussia, great potentate / we are so tired of your rule" were in conflict with the ruling party line.
Other work
Steinitz wrote an easy-to-use textbook of the Russian language and was the founder and co-editor of a dictionary of the German language. Steinitz founded the Marx-Engels-dictionary in 1952, which was published in 1963 as a sample issue.
Bibliography
- Wolfgang Steinitz: German Folk Songs democratic character of six centuries . Volume 1, Oxford University Press, Berlin 1954
- Wolfgang Steinitz: German Folk Songs democratic character of six centuries . Volume 2, Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1962
- Wolfgang Steinitz - German folk songs democratic character of six centuries . Reprint in one volume, Zweitausendeins, Frankfurt 1983, ISBN 3-88436-101-5.
- Wolfgang Steinitz: Ostjakologische work. Contributions to linguistics and ethnography . Edited by Gert Sauer and Renate Steinitz. Volume I - IV, Akademiai Kiado and Oxford University Press, Budapest and Berlin 1980
- Wolfgang Steinitz: Russian textbook. 10th durchges. Ed people and knowledge, Berlin 1961st
References
Citations
- ^ The Uralic languages by Daniel Mario Abondolo (1998)
- ^ Sárkány, Hann & Skalník 2005, p. 28.
- ^ a b c Sárkány, Hann & Skalník 2005, p. 29.
Sources
- Sárkány, Mihály; Hann, C. M.; Skalník, Peter (2005). Studying Peoples in the People's Democracies: Socialist Era Anthropology in East-Central Europe. LIT Verlag Münster. ISBN 978-3-8258-8048-4. Retrieved 2012-08-14.
Further reading
- Zweimal Stockholm - Berlin 1946. Briefe nach der Rückkehr. Jürgen Peters und Wolfgang Steinitz. Mit Nach-Fragen an Robert Rompe und Jürgen Kuczynski. Hrsg. von Jürgen Peters. Leipzig 1989
- Peter Nötzoldt: Wolfgang Steinitz und die Deutsche Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin. Zur politischen Geschichte der Institution (1945-1968). Phil. Diss. Humboldt Universität Berlin 1998
- ISBN 3-936411-49-2.
- Klaus Steinitz, Wolfgang Kaschuba (Hg.): Wolfgang Steinitz – Ich hatte unwahrscheinliches Glück. Ein Leben zwischen Wissenschaft und Politik. Karl Dietz-Verlag, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3320029053.
- Wolfgang Steinitz und die westsibirischen Völker der Chanty und Mansi, Sonderheft der Zeitschrift Lomonossow (online).
- Ewald Lang: Wolfgang Steinitz (1905-1967) : Vom Rand der Philologie in die Mitte der Wissenschaftspolitik, in: Gegenworte (Zeitschrift der BBAW), 14, Herbst 2004.
- Deutsche demokratische Volkslieder. Ehrliche, schlichte Songs voll rührender Klarheit. Steinitz als Wegbereiter der deutsch-deutschen Folkszene. In: Folker!, 4/2005 (online).
- Michael K. Scholz:Skandinavische Erfahrungen erwünscht?. Franz-Steiner-Verlag, Stuttgart 2000. ISBN 978-3515076517. auf Google Books
- Thomas Kuczynski: Die Marx-Engels-Forschung an der Deutschen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Skizzen zu einem unbearbeiteten Forschungsfeld. In: Beiträge zur Marx-Engels-Forschung. Neue Folge. Sonderband 5. Die Marx-Engels-Werkausgaben in der UdSSR und DDR (1945–1968). Argument Verlag, Hamburg 2006, S. 418-421 ISBN 3-88619-691-7