Dieter Eisfeld (city planner)
Dieter Eisfeld (* 26. April 1934 in Emden ; † 14. February 2018 in Hannover ) was a German jurist , urban planners , non-fiction book - Author and writer .
Life
Dieter Eisfeld, born in Emden in 1934, began studying law , sociology and literature in Göttingen at the university there and at the University of Cologne after graduating from high school .
Since the mid-1970s, Eisfeld worked in Hanover as head of the building administration office and from 1988 to 1996 accompanied the preparatory work for the world exhibition Expo 2000 , one of whose fathers he is considered. Among other things, he planned the Kronsberg settlement to be built on Kronsberg . But he was unable to achieve his goal of an “entirely new type of expo” that was to set ecological world standards.
Eisfeld has been writing non-fiction books and novels since 1986. He became known nationwide primarily with publications on modern urban society - and later with the novel Das Loch , with which the Hanoverian by choice “set a monument” to the Lower Saxony state capital.
At the beginning of the 1990s, Eisfeld lived in the Gartenhofsiedlung in the Marienwerder district of Hanover . Dieter Eisfeld died in mid-February 2018.
Fonts (selection)
- The city of the city dwellers. New forms of urban democracy , Stuttgart: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1973, ISBN 978-3-421-02346-9 and ISBN 3-421-02346-8 ; contents
- Dieter Eisfeld (author), Detlef Draser (collaborator): Art in the city. About the attempt to change cities through artistic objects and actions , Stuttgart: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1975, ISBN 978-3-421-02453-4 and ISBN 3-421-02453-7 ; contents
- Big city, now what? On the necessity of a city philosophy , Stuttgart: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1978, ISBN 978-3-421-02522-7 and ISBN 3-421-02522-3
- City and public transport. The Hanover case (1852 to 2000) . Üstra Hannoversche Verkehrsbetriebe AG, Hanover 1980, ISBN 978-3-9802783-0-0 .
- City of the future. A new city constitution for the 21st century , Stuttgart: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1981, ISBN 978-3-421-02573-9 and ISBN 3-421-02573-8
- Career. Is it worth it? The human cost of striving for success . Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbek 1985, ISBN 3-498-01628-8 (non-fiction book).
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The genius . Diogenes, Zurich 1986, ISBN 3-257-01719-7 (novel).
- El genio (in Spanish), Trad. del alemán por Pilar Giralt Gorina, Barcelona: Seix Barral, 1987
- The hole. Roman , Hannover: Postskriptum-Verlag, 1991, ISBN 978-3-922382-57-7 and ISBN 3-922382-57-6
- Commedia dell'Expo . Schlütersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Hannover 2000, ISBN 3-87706-374-8 (non-fiction book).
literature
- Michael B. Berger: Mourning Dieter Eisfeld / City planner and author died, article in the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung (HAZ) on February 21, 2018, p. 24
Web links
- Literature by and about Dieter Eisfeld in the catalog of the German National Library
- Dieter Eisfeld in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
- Works by and about Dieter Eisfeld at Open Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Compare the obituary notice on the HAZ website from February 21, 2018, last accessed on February 21, 2018
- ↑ a b c d e Michael B. Berger: Mourning Dieter Eisfeld / City planner and author died, article in the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung (HAZ) on February 21, 2018, p. 24
- ^ Dieter Eisfeld in the literature database Lower Saxony
- ↑ Dagmar Albrecht (ed.) Et al. : Experience of the residents , in this: Today in Marienwerder. A district book about different people, historical sights, the environment and nature , 199 pages, with drawings by Gisela Blumenbach and others as well as photographs by Kristin Beier et al., Hannover-Marienwerder: D. Albrecht, 1992, p. 25f.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Eisfeld, Dieter |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German urban planner and writer |
DATE OF BIRTH | April 26, 1934 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Emden |
DATE OF DEATH | February 14, 2018 |
Place of death | Hanover |