Alexandra Klei

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Alexandra Klei (* 1973 ) is a German architectural theorist and historian .

Life

Alexandra Klei studied architecture at the Brandenburg Technical University Cottbus (BTU Cottbus). Her diploma thesis on memorial sites at places of former concentration camps in Germany. In 2003 she wrote about the development, present and perspective of the Ravensbrück women's concentration camp as an example at the Chair of Architecture, BTU Cottbus. From 2006 to 2009 she was a scholarship holder of the Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah in Paris and in 2010 she was given the theme The Remembered Place. Function and meaning of architecture Nazi concentration camps for the imaging and presentation of history to Dr.-Ing. PhD.

From 2011 to about 2015 she worked as a lecturer at the Art History Institute of the Ruhr University Bochum and taught, among other things, post-war modernism in North Rhine-Westphalia and architecture and urban planning between 1945 and 1975. Since summer 2014 she has been at the Selma Stern Center for Jewish Studies Berlin-Brandenburg associated, a university center sponsored by several universities. Using the example of the architect Hermann Zvi Guttmann , she researched the possibilities and conditions for Jewish building in the post-war period. She teaches at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Potsdam as a lecturer at the Institute for Arts and Media (as of 2018). Klei belongs to the specialist editorial team “Theory and History of Anti-Semitism / the Shoah” at Medaon. Magazine for Jewish life in research and education .

Her research topics include architecture and urban planning in Israel , post-war modernism, photographs in the context of (former) concentration and extermination camps as well as the architecture of Nazi concentration camps with a focus on the handling of buildings after liberation and the importance of architecture in the design and use of the Places as memorials.

Exhibition room "werkraum bild und sinn"

In 2013 she and three others planned and founded the exhibition space werkraum bild und sinn. Levels and limits of photography , which was located on Bergmannstrasse in Berlin-Kreuzberg until August 2015 . In March 2014 Klei was co-founder of the non-profit association werkraum bild und sinn for the promotion of art and culture. In addition to the conception and implementation of own exhibition projects, photographs, video art and works by contemporary artists are shown. My own projects included:

  • 2015: History everywhere. National Socialism and the end of the war in 1945 - monuments, memorials and historical places in the Spree-Neisse district . Photographs: Christian Herrnbeck, research and texts: Alexandra Klei
  • 2013/2014: commemorative installation on the 15th anniversary of Farid Guendoul's death “If he's so crazy and walks through the window…” Guben 15 years after the fatal hunt for Farid Guendoul . The exhibition concludes the RE: GUBEN project, “which for a year was devoted to questions about how to deal with the memory of the victims of right-wing violence and the memory of Farid Guendoul in Guben”.
  • 2014: Exhibition project 665 seconds New York . Photographs by Alexandra Klei
  • 2016: Please Do Not Touch The Artwork. Photography and touch . Photo-video festival on the subject of “touch”, directed by: Alexandra Klei, Sebastian Sprenger, Annika Wienert

Award

2016: Rosl and Paul Arnsberg Prize, 10,000 Euro award from the Polytechnic Society Frankfurt am Main for outstanding research on the history of Jewish life in Frankfurt.

Publications (selection)

  • How the Bauhaus came to Tel Aviv: Reconstruction of an idea in text, image and architecture . Neofelis Verlag, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-95808-244-1
  • Alexandra Klei, Katrin Stoll (Eds.): Blank space (s)? The German war of extermination 1941–1944 and the visualizations of events after 1989 . Neofelis Verlag, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-95808-227-4
  • Jewish building in post-war Germany: the architect Hermann Zvi Guttmann . Neofelis Verlag, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-95808-116-1
  • Alexandra Klei, Katrin Stoll, Annika Wienert (eds.): May 8, 1945: international and interdisciplinary perspectives . Neofelis Verlag, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-95808-112-3
  • Alexandra Klei: Architecture, Reconstruction, Memory: The Image of Tel Aviv's White City . In: Architecture RePerformed: The Politics of Reconstruction. Tino Mager (Ed.), Ashgate, Farnham (Surrey) 2015, ISBN 978-1-4724-5933-6 , pp. 137–151 (limited book preview)
  • Throughout history: Nazism and the war ended in 1945 - ... . Werkraum Bild und Sinn e. V., Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-00-048214-4
  • Alexandra Klei, Katrin Stoll, Annika Wienert (eds.): The transformation of the camps: Approaches to the sites of National Socialist crimes . Conference proceedings, Transcript Verlag, Bielefeld 2011, ISBN 978-3-8376-1179-3
  • The remembered place: history through architecture. For the structural and creative representation of the National Socialist concentration camps . Transcript Verlag, Bielefeld 2011, ISBN 978-3-8376-1733-7 (also dissertation under the title The remembered place. Function and significance of the architecture of National Socialist concentration camps for the mapping and presentation of history . Technical University Cottbus, 2010)
  • The memory of the barrack. Representations of the accommodations of inmates of former concentration camps in today's memorials . Archimaera, Volume 3 Ephemeral Architecture , May 2010, pp. 117–127
  • Janine Doerry, Alexandra Klei: Memorial sites in the border region: Hinzert, Natzweiler, Neue Bremm , pp. 225–240. In: Janine Doerry, Alexandra Klei et al. (Eds.): Nazi forced camps in West Germany, France and the Netherlands. History and memory . Conference proceedings, Schöningh, Paderborn 2008, ISBN 978-3-506-76458-4
  • Shape of remembrance: memorials at the sites of the former satellite camps of the Ravensbrück women's concentration camp . Metropol Verlag, Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-936411-76-8

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Technical University of Cottbus: Dissertation Alexandra Klei . Retrieved May 13, 2017
  2. ↑ archimaera architecture. Culture. context. online: Alexandra Klei . Retrieved May 13, 2017
  3. ↑ Communication and specialist information for the historical sciences of the Humboldt University in Berlin: A. Klei: The remembered place of January 18, 2012. Review by Anke Binnewerg, Bauhaus University Weimar. Retrieved May 13, 2017
  4. ^ Center for Jewish Studies Berlin-Brandenburg: Dr. Alexandra Klei - CV . Retrieved May 13, 2017
  5. ^ Nachkriegsmoderne.org: Public Buildings in the Ruhr Area after 1945 / Post-War Modernism in North Rhine-Westphalia - Seminars at the Art History Institute of the Ruhr University Bochum . Retrieved May 13, 2017
  6. ↑ Jüdische Allgemeine: Architektur des Bruch. Alexandra Klei pays tribute to the work of Hermann Zvi Guttmann on March 16, 2017. Accessed on May 11, 2017
  7. ^ Center for Jewish Studies Berlin-Brandenburg: Dr. Alexandra Klei
  8. ^ Center for Jewish Studies Berlin-Brandenburg: Dr. Alexandra Klei - Research . Retrieved May 13, 2017
  9. ↑ LISA The science portal of the Gerda Henkel Foundation: "In the field history locate" Nazi concentration camps as places of remembrance from June 20, 2012. Accessed on May 12, 2017
  10. ↑ werkraum bild und sinn: Exhibition “History Everywhere” . Retrieved May 13, 2017
  11. ↑ Project Group RE: GUBEN / Democratic Youth Forum Brandenburg, werkraum image and sense: website of the project RE: GUBEN . Retrieved May 13, 2017
  12. ↑ werkraum bild und sinn: Exhibition "When he's so crazy and walks through the window ..." . Retrieved May 13, 2017
  13. ↑ werkraum bild und sinn: 665 seconds New York . Retrieved May 13, 2017
  14. ^ Stiftung Polytechnische Gesellschaft Frankfurt am Main: Awards for outstanding research on Frankfurt's Jewish history . Retrieved May 13, 2017
  15. ↑ Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus – Senftenberg: BTU graduate receives the Rosl and Paul Arnsberg Prize on February 23, 2017. Accessed on May 13, 2017
  16. ↑ Lausitzer Rundschau: Book is looking for traces of the Second World War from April 11, 2015. Retrieved on May 13, 2017
  17. ↑ Topography of Terror Foundation, Gedenkstättenreferat: Gedenkstättenrundbrief 136 pp. 40–44 . Review by Juliane Brauer.Retrieved May 13, 2017
  18. ^ Center for Jewish Studies Berlin-Brandenburg: Dr. Alexandra Klei - Publications Accessed on May 13, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Klei, Alexandra
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architectural theorist and historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1973