Josipovac (Josefsdorf) - davno slavonsko djelovanje Ingeborg Weber-Kellerman
Josipovac (Josefsdorf) - An Ancient Slavonian Activity of Ingeborg Weber-Kellerman

Summary/Abstract: Ingeborg Weber-Kellerman, a German ethnologist, visited Slavonia in her youth in the year 1939 and collected material in the German village Josipovac (Josefsdorf) for her dissertation. In 1942 it was published in Leipzig in the book Das Deutschtum in Slawonien und Syrmiem (Landes und Volkskunde) - Josipovac (Josefsdorf) Lebensbild eines deutschen Dorfs in Slawonien. Today, the extensive monograph of the Josipovac village is an important document on the village which has become part of Osijek in present days, while its inhabitants, the Germans from the Danube basin, were moved out or expelled after the Second World War. The author discusses whether Ingeborg Weber-Kellerman neglected her study concerning it unskilled and by a beginner or because of her youth pro-nazi orientation, that primarily had led her into that research. Her recognizable style as well as the indication of problems she will debate later in her work (dynamic model of customs, interethnic and multicultral environments in an ethnological aspect, mentality and family) do not allow us to discard the material, even more so because the historical and ethnological literature on the German inhabitants in Slavonia is very scanty.

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