A Range of German Folklore:

From “Zeitschrift für Volkskunde” and “Zeitschrift des Vereins für Volkskunde” of the Succession Bulletin of German Folklore Society

Abstract

  This article aims at first to reinvestigate the concept of “folklore” in German through dealing with “ethnology”. After that, it looked up “Zeitschrift für Volkskunde” and “Zeitschrift des Vereins für Volkskunde”, published consecutively as the bulletins of German Folklore Society, and investigate the study of “folklore” from their articles : themes and area, issue years, etc. These articles, that deal with Märchen are more than half of themes, could be also characterized by reports of German emigrants communities. These articles handled 230 areas that are present Germany territory and 238 areas are “foreign countries”. From these facts I conclude that German folklore oriented to “European ethnology” and that there were wide network of German-speakers. Certainly, today we find hardly such traditional tendency to find out carefully the various and academic activities, but it may attract attention that Germany folklore had a outlook of inside and outside Germany from the early days.