Christian Setzepfandt

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Christian Setzepfandt on a city tour in Frankfurt am Main

Wolf-Christian Richard Setzepfandt (born May 26, 1957 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German historian , art historian , author and city ​​guide in Frankfurt am Main and there also a former honorary member of the magistrate .

Life

Christian Setzepfandt spent his childhood and youth in Frankfurt's Westend . After graduating from high school , he lived in Indonesia for some time and studied industrial design in Kassel and Frankfurt from 1976 and later English and art history . He then spent more than two years in the United States to study language. Since 1977 he has been working in Frankfurt and the surrounding area as an independent city and tour guide. In addition, he has organized several exhibitions over the years, regularly gives lectures on primarily Frankfurt topics and has published numerous articles and books on Frankfurt architecture and Frankfurt events.

engagement

Christian Setzepfandt has been actively involved in the gay movement since his youth and works as a volunteer member of the board of the Frankfurt AIDS Aid. In this office he organizes, among other things, national events as well as prevention and is responsible for public relations. For two decades he and his staff have been organizing the central events for World AIDS Day for AIDS-Hilfe , which take place annually on December 1st in the Paulskirche in Frankfurt and after a silent march at the AIDS Memorial and the Frankfurt Angel near the Peterskirche are committed. Organizationally, he also oversees the “ run for more time ”. In addition, he has moderated the political talk at the Frankfurt CSD and the "minute of silence" on the occasion of people who have died of AIDS for many years .

Politically independent, he has been involved with the Frankfurt Greens for many years and was an honorary member of the municipal council of Frankfurt am Main from 2011 to 2016 . In this function, he also sat on the supervisory board of Frankfurter Tourismus- und Congress GmbH.

Awards

Publications (selection)

  • As publisher: Goethe in Frankfurt: “Goethe and the Art” from May 21 to August 7, 1994 in the Schirn-Kunsthalle Frankfurt. In: Vernissage, Vol. 2 No. 5, Burkert and Müller, Heidelberg 1994.
  • Architekturführer Frankfurt am Main / Architectural Guide . 3. Edition. Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-496-01236-6 .
  • Mysterious Frankfurt am Main: known and unknown, rediscovered. Wartberg Verlag , Gudensberg-Gleichen 2003, ISBN 3-8313-1347-4 .
  • Together with Silke Wustmann: Frankfurter ArchitekTour: The 100 most important buildings of the Main metropolis from all epochs and six thematic city tours. B3-Verlag, Frankfurt 2009, ISBN 978-3-938783-14-6 .
  • Together with Peter Braunholz and Britta Boerdner: The Frankfurt main cemetery. Societäts-Verlag 2009, ISBN 978-3-7973-1147-4 .
  • Together with Frank Berger : 101 non-locations in Frankfurt. Societäts-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2011, ISBN 978-3-7973-1248-8 .
  • Together with Frank Berger: 102 new non-locations in Frankfurt. Societäts-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2012, ISBN 978-3-942921-41-1 .
  • Together with Frank Berger: 103 non-locations in Frankfurt. Societäts-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2013, ISBN 978-3-95542-007-9 .

literature

  • Holger Vonhof: Most. Höchst Kreisblatt November 30, 2002.
  • N. Schmidt: Nitribitt - immortal in a special way. Weekend - entertainment supplement to the Gießener Allgemeine, Alsfelder Allgemeine, Wetterauer Zeitung, October 25, 2008, p. 1.
  • Thorben Leo: This way it goes. Journal Frankfurt December 2007, p. 2.
  • Katja Gußmann: The seducer of the city. Frankfurter Neue Presse, July 29, 2013, p. 14.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Steven Micksch: Christian Setzepfandt - the eternal Frankfurter leads through the city. In: Frankfurter Rundschau from February 25, 2019
  2. ^ Friederike Tinnappel: AIDS Help in Frankfurt - the number of new HIV infections is falling. In: Frankfurter Rundschau from November 23, 2018
  3. ^ Letter of honor from the State of Hesse for our board member Christian Setzepfandt
personal data
SURNAME Setzepfandt, Christian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Setzepfandt, Wolf-Christian Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian, art historian, author and city guide in Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF BIRTH May 26, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main