Brigitte Wormbs
Brigitte Wormbs (born May 14, 1937 in Betzdorf ) is a German garden and landscape architect and author.
Wormbs studied gardening and landscape design at the Technical University of Munich . She has been working as a freelance garden and landscape designer since 1966, living in Ulm. As an author, she dealt in theoretical works with dealing with nature and urban development as well as with garden art; In addition, she wrote essays on the perception, representation and design of landscape for magazines, daily newspapers and radio stations. Between 1976 and 1986 she produced four books, including a travel guide. She also gave lectures and took part in colloquia at home and abroad. From 1979 to 1983 she was a member of the of January Robert Bloch initiated working group natural quality , which the Institute for Science Education of the University of Kiel was located. Between 1990 and 1992 she worked on the Green Belt project in Frankfurt am Main .
From 1995 to 1996, Wormbs was teaching at the University of Oldenburg , where she has been an honorary professor since 1997. From 1999 to 2000 she taught as a visiting professor at the University of Kassel .
Fonts
- Book publications
- About dealing with nature. Landscape between illusion and ideal. Stroemfeld / Roter Stern, Frankfurt am Main 1981; ISBN 3-87877-119-3 (3rd edition)
- Change of location Stroemfeld / Roter Stern, Basel / Frankfurt am Main 1981; ISBN 3-87877-159-2
- Room sequences. Essays Luchterhand, Darmstadt / Neuwied 1986; ISBN 3-472-61684-9
- Brigitte Wormbs & Wolftraud de Concini Venice . dtv, Munich 1984; ISBN 3-423-03718-0
- More work
- Critical walks through nature in public space. In: State capital Stuttgart. Kulturamt (Ed.): On the concept of nature in the present. Documentation for the "Nature in the Mind" congress. frommann-Holzboog Verlag, Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt 1996
- Vagabond in the garden. In: Jörg Zimmermann with Uta Saenger, Götz L. Darsow (Hrsg.): Aesthetics and experience of nature . frommann-Holzboog Verlag, Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt 1996
- Traces in the garden . In: JR Bloch (Ed.): »I am. But I don't have myself. That's why we will. «Perspectives on Ernst Bloch's philosophy. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1997, pp. 344-353
- A carpet weaver. In: Francesca Vidal (Ed.) Experiment Welt. Bloch Yearbook 2010. On the 125th birthday of Ernst Bloch. In memory of Jan Robert Bloch. Talheimer Verlag, Mössingen 2010, pp. 76–80
Web links
- Literature by and about Brigitte Wormbs in the catalog of the German National Library
- Look into the whole of nature (portrait of the author; SWR)
- Distance from Siegerland (essay on the hometown of Betzdorf)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wormbs, Brigitte |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German garden architect and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 14, 1937 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Betzdorf |