Interviews with German anthropologists - Video Portal for the History of German Anthropology post 1945

Professor Dr. em. Bernhard Streck was born in Mannheim in 1945. He completed his Abitur (university entrance certificate) at the Hebel-Gymnasium in Lörrach near Switzerland in 1965 and did his military service afterwards. Bernhard Streck took up the study of cultural and social anthropology as well as psychology at Basel University in 1967 and continued his studies in Frankfurt/Main, where he was involved with the student movement. In 1975 he received his PhD. In the following years, he did several research trips to Northern Africa. In 1978 he worked as a lecturer at the Institute for Geography in Gießen, a year later he took up an assistant position at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology in Berlin. Between 1988 and 1992 he acted as interim professor at the Department of Anthropology and African Studies in Mainz. He completed his habilitation thesis in 1992. In the following two years, Professor Streck lectured at the Ruprechts-Karl-University in Heidelberg. In 1994, he became head of the anthropology department in Leipzig. Professor Streck’s research interests include the field of Tsiganologie and the region of Sudan as well as the History of German Anthropology. He retired in 2010.