Dörte Gatermann

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Dörte Gatermann 2019
Dörte Gatermann 2019

Dörte Gatermann (born March 25, 1956 in Hamburg ) is a German architect and university lecturer . Your most famous design is the KölnTriangle high-rise.

Life and works

After studying architecture at the Technical University of Braunschweig and RWTH Aachen University , Gatermann worked for Gottfried Böhm as a project manager for five years . Together with her future husband Elmar Schossig , she founded the joint architecture firm Gatermann + Schossig in Cologne in 1984 , which she now runs together with her long-term project manager and office partner Sven Gaeßler. Elmar Schossig died in December 2009 at the age of 59 after a serious illness. The couple have two grown children.

From 2002 to 2007 Gatermann was a full professor for design and building theory at the Technical University of Darmstadt . Dörte Gatermann acts as a judge for numerous architecture competitions. Their motto: "Not either-or, but both-and-also!" Namely: functionality and beauty, rationality and emotion, family and career. She openly addresses the conflict among women between work and children.

Rimowa building
Rimowa building
Cologne Triangle 2014
Cologne Triangle 2014

The Rimowa suitcase factory was one of the first projects and in 1987 Gatermann received an award for the German Architecture Prize. Since then it has been honored with over 100 architecture and competition prizes. The conversion of the historic Bayenturm by Dörte Gatermann into a FrauenMediaTurm was one of the first projects to restructure Cologne's Rheinauhafen . This became the archive and documentation center on current and historical women's issues, a collaboration with Alice Schwarzer . Then further projects in Cologne's Rheinauhafen such as the Kontor19, the port authority as the seat of the port and freight traffic Cologne HGK , and the construction site10 realized in 2011. The height of the KölnTriangle high- rise was a political issue from the start. After the political quarrels had been resolved, the high-rise building was 103.2 meters high. During the construction phase, the KölnTriangle was the trigger for UNESCO to temporarily put Cologne Cathedral on the Red List as a world heritage site at risk. In the course of this nationwide observed discussion, the high-rise concept for Cologne-Deutz was revised. The viewing terrace has since become a crowd puller. From the hand of the architect come u. a. the Ministry of Education of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia and the Roman Museum, completed in 2008, in the Xanten Archaeological Park .

Together with Kaspar Kraemer, Gatermann is co-initiator of the Cologne city model, which has been to depict Cologne city center on a scale of 1: 500 on a planned area of ​​12 × 12 meters since 1991. Of the 144 panels, 56 have so far been realized through sponsorship.

She lives and works in Cologne and has been married to the musician and composer Michael Villmow since 2014 .

Memberships and initiatives

  • 1989–98 board member of the Association of German Architects (BDA)
  • 1992 initiator of the Cologne city model
  • 2000 initiator of the internet platform koelnarchitektur
  • 2010–14 member of the “Art in Architecture” board of trustees of the Federal Ministry for Transport, Building and Urban Development
  • 2011–15 member of the Karlsruhe Design Advisory Board
  • since 2012 member of the Baukollegium Berlin
  • 2012–17 member of the Berlin Building Council
  • Sven Gaeßler has been a partner at GATERMANN + SCHOSSIG since 2012
  • since 2017 Jan Rübenstrunk partner at GATERMANN + SCHOSSIG
  • since 2017 member of the Stuttgart design advisory board
  • since 1984 more than 150 competition and architecture prizes, multiple jury work, lectures, workshops

Buildings (selection)

Awards (selection)

Literature (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bettina Flitner : Women with Visions - 48 European women. With texts by Alice Schwarzer . Knesebeck, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-89660-211-X , p. 86.
  2. ↑ Idea + Development · City Model Cologne. Retrieved September 26, 2019 .
  3. ↑ bestarchitects.de
personal data
SURNAME Gatermann, Dörte
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH March 25, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg