STUBEN-FORUMDIE UNBEQUEME WISSENSCHAFT(La scienza scomoda)

Invited speakers:

Georg Grote (University College Dublin)
Franz Haller, Visual Anthropologist (Meran)
Thomas Nußbaumer (University of Innsbruck)
Hannes Obermair (Bozen Stadtarchiv)
Ina Tartler (Vereinigte Bühnen Bozen)
Elizabeth Thaler (Vereinigte Bühnen Bozen)

Moderated by Hans Karl Peterlini (journalist and author, Bolzano/Bozen)

Programme

15:00 Welcome
Emanuele Guidi (artistic director ar/ge kunst)

15:10 Prologue
Hans Karl Peterlini

15:25 Mask Introduction
Thomas Nussbaumer introduces Richard Wolfram and Alfred Quellmalz, members of the SS Ahnenerbe Kulturkommission to the Sudtirol (1939 – 1942)
Franz Haller introduces Arthur Scheler, photographer from Meran.
Hannes Obermair introduces Bronislaw Malinowski, world famous anthropologist who used to vacation in Oberbozen

16:05 First Panel
Framing History
With Georg Grote and Hannes Obermair

16.35 Second Panel
Folk Culture (Uses & Abuses)
With Thomas Nussbaumer, Georg Grote, Franz Haller

17.05 Third Panel
Performing the Unstageable
With Ina Tartler and Elizabeth Thaler

17.35 Epilogue and Public questions discussion

18.00 End of the Stuben-Forum

Biographies

Georg Grote is a lecturer in Western European History and Head of School at University College Dublin. His research interests cover historical nationalism and modern regionalism; in particular, he has published case studies on Germany, Ireland and the South Tyrol. Georg Grote has been a regular visitor to the South Tyrol over the past 35 years and has thus experienced at first hand the great changes this region has undergone. While the local and regional histories of the South Tyrol are extremely interesting in their own right, its history within the broader context of twentieth and twenty-first-century European developments is particularly fascinating. With a wealth of teaching experience from across Europe and his home university in Dublin, Georg Grote seeks to relate his international research background to events in the South Tyrol and to present them in an engaging way.

Franz J. Haller was born in Meran (South Tyrol) in 1948. He studied ethnology at Vienna University and visual anthropology at Göttingen University, with field research in northern and central Africa and the Amazonian lowlands. He co-founded the Landwirtschafts-Museum Brunnenburg in Dorf Tirol in 1974. From 1976 to 1979 he was a research professor at OAS (Organization of American States) at the University of Quito, Ecuador. Haller has produced over 150 documentary films on the ethnography and recent history of the South Tyrol for television, schools and museums. He founded the internet portal www.tiroler.tv in 2012.

Thomas Nußbaumer was born in Hall in the Tyrol (Austria). He studied musicology and German at the Universität Innsbruck, obtaining a doctorate in 1998. His dissertation was published in 2001 as Alfred Quellmalz und seine Südtiroler Feldforschungen (1940–42): Eine Studie zur musikalischen Volkskunde unter dem Nationalsozialismus (Alfred Quellmalz and his field research in the South Tyrol (1940–42): A study on music folklore under National Socialism). In 2011 Nussbaumer completed a postdoctoral thesis on folk music at the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Vienna. He has taught at the Innsbruck campus of the Universität Mozarteum Salzburg since 1995, becoming a lecturer in 2011. He is head of the departmental area for music ethnology within the department of musicology. His research and publications focus on music and custom, carnival, folk music and Nazism, Alpine folk music traditions (western Austria and the South Tyrol in particular), and the music of the Old Order Amish.

Hannes Obermair was born in Bolzano in 1961. Research areas relating to the history of the region include comparative urban history and the early written word in the central Alps. In particular, his work focuses on transitional phenomena, forms of acculturation and the ‘grey areas’ that accompany and define the development of the Tyrol and Trento regions in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Era. Much of his more recent work has considered questions of contemporary history and historiography in the context of fascism and the Nazi era.

Hans Karl Peterlini was born in Bolzano in 1961. He originally worked as a journalist covering contemporary politics and recent history, where his main focus was the sometimes violent political conflict over South Tyrolean autonomy, its long (and as yet incomplete) development from antagonism to peaceful coexistence. After a period in pedagogical and educational studies, he has since moved into a new professional field with similar interests and questions: How can people and groups cultivate their identities? How can individuals and collectives learn for the present and the future? What factors help and hinder open attitudes toward interaction? Hans Karl Peterlini is Professor of Pedagogy and Transcultural Education at the Universität Klagenfurt for the academic year 2014–15.

Ina Tartler was born in Rumania in 1966 and emigrated to Germany in 1988. She studied German literature, theatre studies and psychology at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich. She was chief artistic advisor to the Schauspielhaus in Salzburg from 2002 to 2008, and has been chief artistic advisor at the Vereinigten Bühnen Bozen since 2008.

Elisabeth Thaler was born in Bolzano in 1981. She studied comparative literature and German at the Universität Innsbruck. She was student artistic advisor in residence at the Tiroler Landestheater in 2006, then assistant artistic advisor at the Vereinigten Bühnen Bozen from 2007 to 2012, where she is now an artistic advisor. She has worked with Bettina Bruinier, Agnese Cornelio, Philipp Jescheck, Alexander Kratzer, Carina Riedl, Georg Schmiedleitner Katharina Schwarz.

With the kind support of:
Autonome Provinz Südtirol, Abteilung Kultur
Autonome Region Trentino Südtirol
Stadtgemeinde Bozen, Abteilung Kultur
Culture Ireland / Cultúr Éireann
Stiftung Südtiroler Sparkasse
Kofler Tischlerei & Möbelhaus, St. Felix/Nonsberg
Rothoblaas, Kurtatsch
Wolfstuben, Tscherms
Deplau, St. Felix/Nonsberg
Österreichische Mediathek, Wien
pur SÜDTIROL
Dr. Schär, Burgstall
Lichtstudio Eisenkeil

A special thanks go to:
Egetmann Verein Tramin
Südtiroler Landesmuseum für Volkskunde in Dietenheim
Ofas Architekten, Bozen
Referat Volksmusik, Fotoarchiv Quellmalz (Bereich Deutsche und Ladinische Musikschulen