Lebendige Sagenlandschaft Südtirol : Überlieferer erzählen Sagen und volkstümlichen Erzählstoff aus dem Südtiroler Überetsch ; erhoben durch Feldforschung 1987/88 und 1990 aufgrund der unveröffentlichten Sammlung Dr. Willi Mai aus 1940/41; ohne Überlieferer keine Überlieferung / einger. von Gertrud Henisch

• VerfasserIn: Henisch, Gertrud
• Place / Publishing House: 1993
• Year of Publication: 1993
• Language: German
• Contents/pieces: 2 records

eng: The first goal of this dissertation was to find an unpublished collection of South Tyrolean folk tales by Dr. Willi Mai mentioned to me in February 1985 by Dr. Egon Kuehebacher of Bozen. Under commission from the ancestral heritage of the SS ('AHNENERBE'der SS) Dr. Mai had assembled about 2000 items in 1940-41. He was killed in action in 1945 and his widow had changed her name upon remarrying. The second aim was to examine the contention that the tradition of folk tales and legends was no longer alive in South Tyrol. The search for the collection of folk tales, fairy- tales, legends, funny tales and jokes in South Tyrol was successfully. The next step was to inquire in the area of Ueberetsch for the contributors of 50 years earlier, the probanden of 1940/41, or their descendants and friends in order to hear stories and legends from their oral tradition, or even new material from their daily lives. This makes up the biology of narratives. Conclusion: of the 145 items collected by Dr. Willi Mai in Ueberetsch in 1940-41, 57 narratives were still being transmitted orally in 1987-88 and 1990. I was also able to record 103 new items that had not been published until now. Therefore, the folk tale, fairy tale and funny story in South Tyrol is not dead at all.