Ulrich Maximilian Schumann

Ulrich Maximilian Schumann (born March 23, 1964 in Kuppenheim ) is an art and architecture historian and publicist.

Live and act

Schumann, who studied in Heidelberg and Bonn , worked at the Deutsches Architekturmuseum in Frankfurt am Main before taking up teaching at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich in 1994 and there in 1999 with a thesis on the architect Wilhelm von Tettau (1872–1929) and architecture received his doctorate in the crisis of liberalism . At the University of Karlsruhe , Schumann completed his habilitation in 2009 with his work Friedrich Weinbrenner: Classicism and “Practical Aesthetics” .

After further teaching positions at Harvard University, TU Delft, University of Karlsruhe and TU Dortmund, he has been teaching European Cultural History at the Université de Strasbourg in the Euroculture master’s course since 2014 .

A focus of Schumann's writings and exhibitions are buildings and architects in Baden, for example Rotenfels Castle in Gaggenau, Friedrichsbad in Baden-Baden , the artist Max Laeuger (1864–1952), the architect and theoretician Heinrich Hübsch and, above all, again and again Karlsruhe builder Friedrich Weinbrenner (1766–1826).

Schumann worked as a research assistant for the Friedrich Weinbrenner project of the Southwest German Archive for Architecture and Civil Engineering (saai) at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology until 2010 and has been President of the Friedrich Weinbrenner Society since then.

Schumann, who has been a member of the Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen party since the late 1990s , applied in 2011 as a challenger to Michael Beck (CDU) for the office of Lord Mayor of the city of Tuttlingen and received 31.6% of the vote. He has not been a party member since 2015.

Publications

• Wilhelm Freiherr von Tettau , 1872–1929. Architecture in the crisis of liberalism. Gta, Zurich 2002, ISBN 3-85676-101-2 (= dissertation, ETH Zurich, 1999) short version .
• Friedrich Weinbrenner's path to Rome: buildings, pictures and encounters (= writings of the Museum for Literature on the Upper Rhine. Volume 3; History of houses and buildings. Volume 7). Info-Verlag, Karlsruhe 2008, ISBN 978-3-88190-503-9 (= catalog for the exhibition "Friedrichs Weinbrenners Weg nach Rom") as part of the 19th European Culture Days 2008 in the Museum for Literature on the Upper Rhine , Karlsruhe, April 7 to June 1, 2008).
• Friedrich Weinbrenner: Classicism and "practical aesthetics" (= Friedrich Weinbrenner and the Weinbrenner School. Volume 5). Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-422-06969-5 .
  • Review by Klaus Jan Philipp : in: Sehepunkte Issue 11 (2011), No. 5.

as editor:

• with Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani , Ruth Hanisch and Wolfgang Sonne: Architectural theory of the 20th century. Positions - Programs - Manifestos. Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern 2004, ISBN 3-7757-1375-1 .
• with others: the city. Your invention in books and graphics. Gta, Zurich 2009, ISBN 978-3-85676-257-5 .

Essays

• Sensual meanders. Astray into Friedrichsbad in Baden-Baden , in: Archithese 26 (1996), No. 2, pp. 19-25.
• Guest house of the Academy Schloß Rotenfels: Karlhans Hirschmann and Otfried Weis = Guesthouse, Schloss Rotenfels Academy , with photos by Dirk Altenkirch, in: Architektur-Jahrbuch 1996 ( ISSN  0942-7481 ), published by the German Architecture Museum Frankfurt am Main, p. 104 -107.
• The Max Laeuger phenomenon: diplomacy on behalf of art. In: Urs Robert Kaufmann (Ed.): Switzerland and the German Southwest (= Upper Rhine Studies. Volume 25). Ostfildern 2006, ISBN 3-7995-7825-0 , pp. 155-169.
• Office and commercial building on Karlsruhe's market square , in: Bauwelt 98 (2007), No. 39, pp. 12–13.
• “Head and Hands” - Building in Friedrich Weinbrenner's Baden , in: Back to the City , Berlin 2007 ISBN 978-3-939633-49-5 ; ISBN 3-939633-49-6 , p. 42 ff.
• The small and the big, the near and the far: Max Laeuger and the renewal of art , in: Art Nouveau on the Upper Rhine . Karlsruhe 2009 ISBN 978-3-7650-8510-9 , pp. 124-129.
• Encounter with Weinbrenner's Karlsruhe (1815) , in: “Gemütlichste talk” - Goethe in Karlsruhe , commemorative publication for the 50th anniversary of the Goethe-Gesellschaft Karlsruhe eV, ed. by Beate Laudenberg, Karlsruhe 2010 ISBN 978-3-7650-8587-1 .
• Between Oos and Paradise: Approaching Max Laeuger's Baden-Baden , in: Badische Heimat 90 (2010), No. 3, pp. 648–657.
• On the founding of the Friedrich Weinbrenner Society , in: Badische Heimat 91 (2011), No. 1, pp. 104–108.

Web links

• Literature by and about Ulrich Maximilian Schumann in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography (with photo) on his business website polis-city.de
• Publications by Ulrich Maximilian Schumann in the LandesbibliographieBaden-Württemberg
• Ulrich Maximilian Schumann in the Stadtwiki Karlsruhe
• Ulrich Maximilian Schumann. In: arch INFORM .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Founding protocol  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Website of the International Society for Architecture and Philosophy, accessed on February 16, 2012.  
2. ↑ Dr. habil. Ulrich Maximilian Schumann ( Memento of the original from July 11, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Website of the Karlsruhe Architects and Engineers Association, accessed on February 16, 2012. 
3. ↑ Second applicant for OB election , Südkurier , October 12, 2011, accessed on February 16, 2012.
4. ^ A challenger for Mayor Beck in Tuttlingen , Heilbronner Voice , October 11, 2011, accessed on February 16, 2012.