Alfons Leitl

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Alfons Leitl (born February 6, 1909 in Berlin ; † February 5, 1975 in Trier) was a German architecture journalist, editor , author , architect , next to Hans Eckstein the most influential architecture critic in war-torn West Germany and mentor of Ulrich Conrads .

Life

Alfons Leitl grew up as the youngest of five sons of Austrian parents in Berlin-Karlshorst . He spent his school days in Berlin and temporarily in Vienna . After graduating from high school in Berlin, he did an apprenticeship at Bauwelt-Verlag from 1928 and worked as a specialist editor for the magazines Bauwelt , monthly magazines for architecture and urban planning and as an author in Wasmuth's Lexikon für Baukunst V. , In which he a. a. the entries Kirchliche Baukunst (pp. 309–319) and Rudolf Schwarz (p. 500) wrote. In addition to his journalistic work, he published books. From 1938 to 1945 he trained as an architect in a joint office with the Berlin architects Hermann Lahmé and Paul W. Fischer and headed the development of assembly construction in Herbert Rimpl's office . In 1945 he took over the development planning of the war-torn cities of Rheydt , Wesel and Trier , where he was elected city building officer.

In 1946 Alfons Leitl founded the monthly Baukunst und Werkform with Franz Meunier and the publisher Lambert Schneider , which Eugen Kogon later published and which he handed over to Ulrich Conrads in 1954 . The articles and authors of this journal deal critically with the reconstruction and modern architecture in West Germany. It was there that the Düsseldorf architects ' dispute , like the Bauhaus debate triggered by Rudolf Schwarz's contribution ' Bilde Künstler, speak nicht' in 1953, was carried out .

Synagogue in Trier

1949 Alfons Leitl was appointed to the German Academy for Urban Development, Regional Planning and Regional Planning and led the German Werkbund with his friends and colleagues, Egon Eiermann , Hans Schwippert   and others. a. the exhibition New Living. German architecture since 1945  in Cologne.

Alfons Leitl opened his own architecture office in Cologne in 1951. Between 1948 and 1972 he built more than fifty sacred buildings in the Rhineland, Austria and Berlin. a. in Trier the new synagogue (1957) and city library (1960). In his building work, Alfons Leitl combined the tradition of new building before 1945 with international modern architecture after 1945. In 1968 he was honored with an exhibition for his life's work. The city of Trier named a street in his honor by a city council resolution of March 31, 2009.

Work (selection)

St. Bernhard Church in Berlin-Tegel
Holy Cross Church in Neuwied
Church of St. Stanislaus Kostka in Kagran (Vienna)

Publications

  • From architecture to building, 1936
  • with Walter Kratz : The Book of Your Own House. With sketches, plans and completed buildings by the architect Walter Kratz. Photos by Elsbeth Maria Heddenhausen, Bauwelt-Verlag (Ullstein), Berlin 1937, second expanded edition 1940
  • Living with books, 1940
  • A book from the beautiful garden, 1940
  • 1946–1954 publisher of the magazine " baukunst und werkform "
  • Housing construction in Germany, in: Planning and building in the new Germany. Cologne / Opladen 1960. pp. 356–358.

literature

  • Johannes Busmann : The revised modernity: the architect Alfons Leitl 1909–1975. Müller and Busmann Verlag, Wuppertal 1995, ISBN 3-928766-12-0 .
  • The Bauhaus debate 1953, documents of a repressed controversy, Bauwelt Fundamente 100, ed. by Ulrich Conrads u. a., Braunschweig / Wiesbaden 1994, ISBN 3-528-06100-6

Web links

Commons : Alfons Leitl  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Erich Kästner School Wegberg History of the Erich Kästner School - Municipal Community Primary School Wegberg
  2. ^ Wiebke Arnholz: Form and function of the modern pilgrimage church . Tectum Verlag, Marburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-8288-6589-1 , p. 81-87 .
  3. ↑ http://www.fotostrasse.de/default.aspx?hpseite=36  ( 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.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.fotostrasse.de  
  4. ↑ Holger Schallenburger: Against the Gladbacher objections - history of the parish of St. Mariä Himmelfahrt, Neuwerk . 1st edition. Neuwerker Heimatfreunde eV, Mönchengladbach 2004, ISBN 3-00-013380-1 , p. 83-84 .
  5. ^ Stanislaus Kostka Church in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
personal data
SURNAME Leitl, Alfons
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH February 6, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 5th February 1975
Place of death Berlin