Barbara Jakubeit

Barbara Jakubeit (left) symbolically presents Andreas Meyer-Landrut with the key in the presence of Marianne and Richard von Weizsäcker after the office of the Federal President has been refurbished (Bonn 1990)

Barbara Jakubeit (* 1945 in Konstanz ) is a German architect , university professor and manager .

Life and work

Barbara Jakubeit studied architecture at the Technical University of Karlsruhe and graduated with a diploma in 1971 at the chair of Egon Eiermann, who died the year before . Then she worked as a freelance architect in Karlsruhe and in the state building administration of Baden-Württemberg. The new building for the regional court and district court of Baden-Baden , completed in 1980, was awarded a main prize of the KS Architecture Prize 1980 and is a listed building . In the 1980s she directed the reconstruction of Gottesaue Palace as the seat of the Karlsruhe University of Music . She added modern materials to the parts of the renaissance building that had not been preserved, which was destroyed in the Second World War.

From 1990, Jakubeit, as President of the Federal Building Directorate, was responsible for the planning of the federal buildings required after reunification and, among other things, supervised the competitions for the Federal Chancellery and the renovation of the Reichstag in Berlin . After the conflict over the flood damage at the Schürmann building in Bonn , she accepted the position of professor for design and interior design at the TU Darmstadt in 1994 . In 1996, she changed to the office of Senate Building Director of Berlin, which she held until 2000, as the successor to Hans Stimmann . From May 2000 to October 2005 she was a member of the management board of Flughafen Frankfurt / Main AG , where she was initially responsible for the planned expansion of the airport and from 2002 for real estate development.

On November 16, 2001 she was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Works

• Court building in Baden-Baden , 1980
• Reconstruction of Gottesaue Castle , 1982–1989

Awards

• 1991: Hugo Häring Prize for the reconstruction of Gottesaue Castle
• 2001: Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon

literature

• Barbara Jakubeit, Barbara Hoidn (ed.): Castle - Palace - House Fatherland: A debate about form, content, spirit of reconstruction and redesign. Birkhäuser Verlag 1998, ISBN 978-3-7643-5872-3 .
• Arne Storn: Barbara Jakubeit - maker of the capital . In: Christoph Keese , Wolfgang Münchau (Ed.): 101 women in the German economy . Gabler, Financial Times Deutschland, Wiesbaden 2003, ISBN 978-3-409-15011-8 , pp. 40 f . ( limited preview in Google Book search).

Web links

Commons : Barbara Jakubeit  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Sabine Deckwerth: No investor can get around Barbara Jakubeit. In: Berliner Zeitung of July 3, 1996, accessed on March 28, 2019.
2. ↑ The courthouse. Baden-Baden Regional Court, accessed on April 1, 2019 . 
3. ^ Cultural monuments in Baden-Baden. Extract from the ADAB (General Monument Database) of the State Office for Monument Preservation Baden-Württemberg (PDF; 8.4 MB), accessed on April 1, 2019.
4. ↑ Arne Storn: Barbara Jakubeit - maker of the capital.
5. ↑ Jakubeit leaves Fraport. In: Berliner Morgenpost. November 5, 2004, accessed April 1, 2019 . 
6. ↑ Federal Cross of Merit for Barbara Jakubeit , Der Tagesspiegel of November 16, 2001. Accessed on March 28, 2019.
7. ↑ The courthouse. Baden-Baden Regional Court, accessed on April 1, 2019 .