Nikolaus Bernau

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Nikolaus Bernau (* 1964 in Bonn ) is a German art historian , architecture critic , journalist and nonfiction author .

Life

He studied architecture and art studies at the Technical University of Berlin and the Berlin University of the Arts .

Nikolaus Bernau has been working as a freelance editor with a focus on architecture, urban development, museum and cultural policy and history in the editorial team of the Berliner Zeitung since 2000 . From 2003 to 2014 he was a member of the Berlin State Monument Council. In discussions and publications, he is characterized by his constructive and critical examination of cultural heritage and modernity. Teaching assignments for architecture and museum history and a. at the BTU Cottbus , the FHTW in Berlin, the TU Berlin . He publishes scientifically on the history of architecture, town planning and museums in the 19th and 20th centuries and is the second chairman of the Richard-Schöne-Gesellschaft .

In recognition of his diverse work, Nikolaus Bernau received the following awards:

Publications

editor

  • With Bénédicte Savoy , Hans-Dieter Nägelke : Museum Visions . The competition for the expansion of the Berlin Museum Island in 1883/84 . Kiel 2015.
  • With Susanne Schindler : Staged modernity. On the architecture of Fritz Bornemann . Berlin 2003.
  • With Alexis Joachimides , Sven Kuhrau , Viola Vahrson : Museum productions . On the history of the institution of the art museum. The Berlin Museum Landscape 1830–1990, Dresden / Basel, 1995
  • With Alexis Joachimides: Freie Universität Berlin (ed.): Report I of the project tutorial 246, The Grand Louvre as a model for Berlin . Berlin 1992. Machine-duplicated manuscript
  • With Alexis Joachimides: Freie Universität Berlin (ed.): Report II of the project tutorial 246, The Grand Louvre as a model for Berlin . Berlin 1991. Machine-duplicated manuscript.

Architecture monographs

  • Carl Legien's residential town . Berlin 2013.
  • The Berlin Academy of Arts in the Hansaviertel . Berlin 2007.
  • The Museum Island , architectural guide . Berlin 2006.
  • The Holocaust Memorial , architecture guide . Berlin 2005.
  • Potsdam historical center, architecture guide . Berlin 2004.
  • Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (formerly Berliner Handelsgesellschaft). Architecture guide . Berlin 2004.
  • The Russian Embassy Unter den Linden . Architecture guide . Berlin 2001.
  • The Berlin TV tower . Architecture guide . Berlin 2000.
  • The Berlin Reichstag . Architecture guide . Berlin 1999.

Architecture and architectural history

  • When a tower was built. The Berlin television tower is 50 years old . In: Susanne Kähler, Wolfgang Krogel (Ed.): Yearbook of the Association for the History of Berlin 2019 . Berlin 2019, p. 155-164 .
  • Concrete and Faith. Post-war modern church architecture in Berlin . Berlin 2014.
  • World Heritage City of Quedlinburg . In: Paul Andreas, Karen Jung, Peter Cachola Schmal (eds.): Unesco World Heritage. A trip to Germany. German Architecture Museum, Frankfurt / Main . Berlin 2013, p. 115-121 .
  • Ludwig Hoffmann : Road axis to Museum Island in 1913 . In: Carsten Krohn (ed.): The unbuilt Berlin - city concepts in the 20th century . Berlin 2010, p. 32-34 .
  • New garages . In: Chamber of Architects Berlin (Hrsg.): Architecture in Berlin. 2007 yearbook . Berlin 2008.
  • World Heritage Hansaviertel. Why has this modernity of the 1950s remained so modern? A look back after 50 years . In: Magazine supplement of the Berliner Zeitung . Berlin May 12, 2007.
  • The oyster swings. West Berlin buildings from the 1950s explain why America's culture even fascinates its critics . In: Magazine supplement of the Berliner Zeitung . Berlin August 18, 2007.
  • Palace waste. Against demolition despite cultural and political hardship . In: Chamber of Architects Berlin (Hrsg.): Architecture in Berlin. 2005 yearbook . Berlin 2005, p. 25-28 .
  • Where did Edvard Munch's frieze hang  ? About the construction of the Kammerspiele and their most famous jewelry . In: Roland Koberg, Bernd Stegemann, Henrike Thomsen (eds.): Blätter des Deutschen Theater . Max Reinhardt and the German Theater . Berlin 2005, p. 65-78 .
  • The ceremonial dignity of politics. The bond of the covenant is completed . In: Chamber of Architects Berlin (Hrsg.): Architecture in Berlin. 2004 yearbook . Berlin 2004, p. 7-10 .
  • Liberal down to the stone. For the 150th birthday of the famous Berlin architect Alfred Messel . In: Magazine supplement of the Berliner Zeitung . Berlin July 20, 2003.
  • From the Holy Empire to the New Federal Republic. The armory and its extension. About the price of space, Berlin monument preservation and a failed inner courtyard . In: Chamber of Architects Berlin (Hrsg.): Architecture in Berlin. 2003 yearbook . Berlin 2003, p. 54-58 .
  • The citizen architect. Ludwig Hoffmann was the most important building city councilor in Berlin. He was born in Darmstadt 150 years ago . In: Magazine supplement of the Berliner Zeitung . Berlin July 7th, 2002.
  • We children of America. On the validity of aesthetic judgments about post-war modernism . In: Chamber of Architects Berlin (Hrsg.): Architecture in Berlin. 2001 yearbook . Berlin 2001, p. 40-45 .
  • Unter den Linden 50 . In: Federal Ministry for Transport, Building and Housing (Ed.): Democracy as a builder. Federal buildings in Berlin 1991-2000 . Hamburg 2000, p. 100-105 .
  • The House of German Business . In: Chamber of Architects Berlin (Hrsg.): Architecture in Berlin. 2000 yearbook . Berlin 2000, p. 126-130 .
  • The Kronprinzenpalais Unter den Linden . In: Museum journal . tape 1 . Berlin 1999, p. 4-9 .
  • The utopia is international. The building of the sixties and seventies in the GDR and FRG as an attempt to free oneself from national modernity . In: DAM Architecture Yearbook . Frankfurt / Main.
  • Cauldron of peaceful warriors. Sports without memory [stadium conversions in Europe] . In: Magazine supplement of the Berliner Zeitung . Berlin August 7, 1999.
  • A breakdown of the line 1. A break in tradition as an urban concept of life . In: Barbara Jäger, Gabriele Wachter (Hrsg.): Demolition or training. A contribution to the discussion about listed iron structures using the example of the Berlin elevated railway . ViceVersa Verlag, Berlin 1999, p. 71-92 .
  • Critical Reconstruction and Building Academy . In: Doris Fouquet-Plümacher, Förderverein Bauakademie (Ed.): Mythos Bauakademie, Berlin . Berlin 1998, p. 116-120 .
  • New cinema buildings for Berlin . In: Architecture in Berlin. Yearbook 1998. Published by the Berlin Chamber of Architects, Berlin . Berlin 1998, p. 76-81 .
  • The Andreas Schlueter of Wilhelminism. Ernst von Ihne was born 150 years ago . In: Magazine supplement of the Berliner Zeitung . Berlin May 23, 1998.
  • The new Berlin exhibition center. A comparison . In: Chamber of Architects Berlin (Hrsg.): Architecture in Berlin. 1997 yearbook . Berlin 1997, p. 96-101 .
  • Peasants, stone, copper, wood. The construction of the national in art around 1900 using the example of Finland . In: Adolf Krischanitz (Ed.): Ideale Realitäten. Subject area for urban renewal and design HdK Berlin . Berlin 1997.
  • The demolition of the Berlin slaughterhouse. A lost opportunity . In: Chamber of Architects Berlin (Hrsg.): Architecture in Berlin. 1996 yearbook . Berlin 1996, p. 36-39 .

Museum history and museum system

  • Nikolaus Bernau, Bénédicte Savoy , Hans-Dieter Nägelke : From Free Space to Museum Island - The Berlin Museum Island Competition of 1883/84, its international integration, the requirements and the consequences . In: Museum Visions. The competition for the expansion of the Berlin Museum Island in 1883/84 . 2015, p. 11-32 .
  • Legend in the aftermath, Alfred Messel: Motto> Hellas and Rome < . In: Nikolaus Bernau, Bénédicte Savoy , Hans-Dieter Nägelke, Museum Visions . The competition for the expansion of the Berlin Museum Island in 1883/84 . 2015, p. 288-293 .
  • with Mei-Hau Kunzi , economics of the sketch: Unknown participant: Without a motto . In: Nikolaus Bernau, Bénédicte Savoy , Hans-Dieter Nägelke, Museum Visions . The competition for the expansion of the Berlin Museum Island in 1883/84 . 2015, p. 300-302 .
  • Facade before function. The Berlin Palace and the Humboldt Forum : A Planned Disaster . In: Maria Welzig, Anna Stuhlpfarrer (ed.): Cultural quarters in former residences. Between an imperial backdrop and urban replacement . Vienna 2014, p. 317-238 .
  • Outrage is fueled. Interview with Hermann Parzinger , from Berliner Zeitung July 14/15, 2012 . In: Yearbook Prussian Cultural Heritage . tape 48 . Berlin 2014, p. 148-151 .
  • Unity through diversity: the halls for casts after antique sculptures in the New Museum in Berlin . Museum specialization and nationalization from 1830, The New Museum in Berlin in an international context. In: Ellinoor Bergvelt, Debora J. Meijers, Lieske Tibbe, Elsa van Wezel (eds.): Berlin writings on museum research . tape 29 . Berlin 2011, p. 207-225 .
  • The Pergamon Museum and its four museums as teaching instruments of a different modernism . In: Ralf Grüßinger, Volker Kästner, Andreas Scholl (eds.): Pergamon. Panorama of the ancient metropolis . Berlin 2011, p. 388-392 .
  • More is more. The idea of ​​depots away from museums is outdated . In: Museum journal . tape 4 . Berlin 2010, p. 8-10 .
  • Trust the chaos. The Humboldt Forum in the context of new international museum projects . In: Thomas Flierl, Hermann Parzinger (ed.): Humboldt Forum Berlin. The project, Berlin . Berlin 2009, p. 240-249 .
  • Fritz Bornemann - Obituary for the great museum director . In: Yearbook Prussian Cultural Heritage . tape 44 . Berlin 2008, p. 263-279 .
  • The whale is blowing. The Sandefjord Whaling Museum . In: Museum journal . tape 20 , no. 3 . Berlin 2006, p. 49-54 .
  • The aura of the art laboratory. The Museum of Modern Art as a temple of classics . In: Museum journal . tape 19 , no. 1 . Berlin 2005, p. 13-15 .
  • Monnickendam - a GDR museum in the Netherlands . In: Museum journal . tape 18 , no. 4 . Berlin 2004, p. 4-5 .
  • Dark magic of the aura. Bornemann's productions of art and ethnological museums in Dahlem . In: Susanne Schindler, Nikolaus Bernau (Ed.): Staged Modernism. On the architecture of Fritz Bornemann . Berlin 2003, p. 106-121 .
  • Museum history as a design tool. Mimeographed manuscript, Technical University of Braunschweig, . Braunschweig 2002.
  • The master plans for Berlin's Museum Island . A critical look at a project of the century for bus tourism . In: Chamber of Architects Berlin (Hrsg.): Architecture in Berlin. 2002 yearbook . Berlin 2002, p. 18-23 .
  • Placed in the light in the dark. Fritz Bornemann's staging of the museums in Dahlem once revolutionized the museum world . In: Museum journal . tape 16 , no. 3 . Berlin 2002, p. 11-13 .
  • The Acropolis of Spree Athens. The buildings on Museum Island - their history and future . In: Carola Wedel (Ed.): The new Museum Island. The myth. The plan. The vision . Berlin 2002.
  • Typology and forms of the cultural history museum . In: Sven Kuhrau, Alexis Joachimides (Hrsg.): Renaissance of the cultural history? The rediscovery of the Märkisches Museum in Berlin from a European perspective . Dresden / Basel 2001, p. 33-56 .
  • Il Neues Museum a Berlino . In: Casabella 721 . Berlin April 2004, p. 40-47 (Italian).
  • Starting Signal on the Island. The results of the competition for the Pergamon Museum . In: foyer. Journal for urban development, Urban 21, 1/2000 . Berlin 2000, p. 16-17 (English).
  • The antique halls of the Pergamon Museum . A monument to German architectural history . In: Stefan Altekamp, ​​Mathias Renè Hofter, Michael Krumme (eds.): Posthumanist classical archeology . Munich 2001, p. 461-473 .
  • The Patriotic Hall. A monument to European prehistory and early history . In: Museum journal . Berlin 2001, p. 15-19 .
  • Susanne Härth: 100 years of building history of the Märkisches Museum . In: Museum journal . tape 3 , 1999, p. 26-29 .
  • Kai Michel : The Märkisches Museum . History and future of a bourgeois cultural institution . Berlin 1999.
  • The museum as a place of no history . In: Magazine of the Berliner Zeitung . Berlin September 12, 1998.
  • The new Berlin Gemäldegalerie. In: New Fine Art 1998
  • The failed national museum. The last building on Berlin's Museum Island - The Pergamon Museum 1907–1930 . In: Magazine supplement of the Berliner Zeitung on Museum Island . Berlin November 8th 1997. (for this also co-editing)
  • From the Kunstkammer to the archipelago of museums. The Berlin museum landscape 1830–1990 . In: Alexis Joachimides et al. (Ed.): Museum productions . On the history of the institution of the art museum. The Berlin museum landscape 1830–1990 . Dresden / Basel 1995, p. 15-36 .
  • with Nadine Riedel: For Emperor and Empire. The antique department in the Pergamon Museum . In: A. Joachimides et al. (Ed.): Museum productions. On the history of the institution of the art museum. The Berlin museum landscape 1830–1990 . Dresden / Basel 1995, p. 171-190 .
  • Museums in dispute. Museum history and planning in Berlin since 1990 . In: A. Joachimides et al. (Ed.): Museum productions. On the history of the institution of the art museum. The Berlin museum landscape 1830–1990 . Dresden / Basel 1995, p. 222-234 .
  • The museum as a visitor machine . In: Bundesbaudirektion Berlin (Ed.): Museum Island Berlin. Competition for the New Museum . Berlin 1994, p. 114-115 . (First in Der Tagesspiegel March 30, 1994.)
  • The Berlin museum dispute is only just beginning. Delight or teach? The arguments in the generation dispute: An overview of the state of the debate . In: Yearbook Prussian Cultural Heritage . tape 29 . Berlin 1992, p. 61-64 . (First in: Der Tagesspiegel, August 21, 1992.)
  • From the burden of tradition and the spirit of modernity. The planned reorganization of the Berlin museums in the crossfire of criticism . In: Yearbook Prussian Cultural Heritage . tape 27 . Berlin 1990, p. 130-131 .

History of art, culture and technology

  • The father of the Transrapid. 80 years ago for the rail zeppelin between Hamburg and Berlin 230 km / h. The record lasted almost a quarter of a century. The world-famous vehicle ended up on the trash just eight years later . In: Magazine supplement of the Berliner Zeitung . Berlin June 18, 2011.
  • The place of the sovereign . In: Friends of the exhibition: The importance of the Berlin city palace for the center of Berlin (Ed.): The castle? Berlin 1993, p. 53-80 .
  • Jan van Eyck and Dürer to this day. Interview with Till-Holger Borchert and Guido Messling, in: Till-Holger Borchert, Guido Messling (eds.), Van Eyck to Dürer. Old Dutch Masters and Painting in Central Europe 1430–1530, Bruges 2010 (enclosure).

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personal data
SURNAME Bernau, Nikolaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art scholar, architecture critic, journalist and non-fiction author
DATE OF BIRTH 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Bonn