Ernst Petersen

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ernst Petersen on the occasion of the award of the Great State Prize of the Prussian Academy of the Arts for Architects, 1937

Ernst Petersen (born June 6, 1906 in Freiburg im Breisgau ; † March 30, 1959 in Ihringen ) was a German architect and actor . Although Petersen was very successful as an architect and several of his buildings are now listed, he gained greater fame in the short time as an actor in Arnold Fanck's mountain films alongside Leni Riefenstahl .

Youth, training and work

Petersen was a nephew of the director Arnold Fanck and worked in several of his films at the side of Leni Riefenstahl and Ernst Udet . Petersen was also connected to his colleague in the architectural field, Luis Trenker , through Fanck's film activity .

Petersen first studied natural sciences , then architecture in Munich, Berlin, Freiburg and Stuttgart. He finished his natural science studies in 1931 with a doctorate to become a Dr. phil., his architecture studies with Clemens Holzmeister , as his employee he worked in Ankara during the construction of the new Turkish capital. In 1933 he worked at short notice in a joint venture with Wilhelm Kreis and Alfred Fischer on designs for a Thingstätte on the Elisenhöhe on the Middle Rhine. From the mid-1930s he worked with Walter Köngeter . The architectural community was resumed after the Second World War .

Petersen had been married to Hugo Henkel's daughter Elisabeth since 1935 . Petersen then received many orders from the chemical company Henkel , for which he carried out several settlement projects even after the Second World War . Petersen was a busy architect as early as the 1930s; In addition to industrial buildings, he built hospitals and office buildings, but also residential buildings, such as the Villa Riefenstahl in Berlin-Schmargendorf in 1935 and 1936 for the then celebrated director. As early as 1936/1937 he was able to build his own large house in Berlin-Dahlem , with attached workrooms and a sculptor's studio for his wife.

From 1941 until his death he had a seat on the advisory board at Henkel, during the same period - with an interruption from 1947 to 1953 - also on the supervisory board ; he was deputy chairman of both boards.

The art collector Anette Brandhorst is a daughter from Petersen's marriage to Elisabeth Henkel.

Architectural works (selection)

Thomaskirche Düsseldorf

Filmography

Awards

See also

literature

  • Stefanie Schäfers: From the Werkbund to the four-year plan. The exhibition Schaffendes Volk Düsseldorf 1937. Droste, Düsseldorf 2001, ISBN 3-7700-3045-1 .
  • Frank Schmitz : Country houses in Berlin 1933–1945. Gebrüder Mann, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-7861-2543-3 .

Web links

Commons : Ernst Petersen (Düsseldorf)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ekkehard Mai, Winfried Nerdinger (Ed.): Wilhelm Kreis. Architect between the Empire and Democracy (1873–1955). Klinkhardt & Biermann, Munich / Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-7814-0349-1 , p. 257.
  2. ↑ Chronicle 130 years of Henkel on henkel.de, PDF document, pp. 113, 116f, 14 MB, accessed on November 9, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Petersen, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and actor
DATE OF BIRTH June 6, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiburg in Breisgau
DATE OF DEATH March 30, 1959
Place of death Your singing