Falk Röhner

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Walter Wolf Falk Röhner (* 1972 in Karl-Marx-Stadt ) is a German designer and businessman. Röhner became known as the founder of the art quarters Westwerk and Alte Handelsschule in Leipzig , as well as a founding member of the Revolutionary Autonomous Youth Association RAJV during the peaceful revolution in the GDR .

Life

As the son of the Chemnitz designer Wolf Röhner and the teacher Renate Röhner, Röhner became involved in the opposition environmental and peace group of the Pauli-Kreuz-Gemeinde in Karl-Marx-Stadt from 1988 and narrowly escaped his arrest by the Ministry for State Security several times in 1989 . During the political changes in the GDR in 1989/1990 he was a co-founder of the Revolutionary Autonomous Youth Association, the first opposition youth association in the GDR, and represented it at the round table of the youth opposition and at Monday demonstrations . From 1990 to 1992 Röhner worked intermittently as a farm hand in Canada and toured extensively in the USA , Mexico , Guatemala and El Salvador . After graduating from high school, he studied Protestant theology at the MLU in Halle / S from 1993 to 1995 . and until 2001 industrial design at the University of Art and Design Burg Giebichenstein .

In 2007 Röhner founded the listed international art quarters Westwerk , with studios for 120 artists, and in 2009 the old commercial school with room for 100 artists in the west of Leipzig . Then in 2013, organized together with friends, the Ostblock living and working project followed, a cooperative for the alternative settlement of a block of houses in the social hotspot Eisenbahnstraße in Leipzig-Volkmarsdorf . Falk Röhner is a lecturer in creativity technology in design.

Röhner has been with the art historian Barbara Röhner , b. Budig, married, father of two children. Röhner lives and works in Leipzig Kleinzschocher and is a hunter .

Varia

Röhner's brother is the Dresden photographer Holm Röhner. On the maternal line, Röhner is related to Hinrigge Balthasar , one of Huldrych Zwingli's Swiss bodyguards during the Last Supper dispute in Marburg in 1529 with Luther and Melanchton .

Works

  • Swamp. in: Communication Futures (a joint project of Hochschule für Kunst und Design Halle (HKD), Department of Industrial Design, Halle / Saale, Germany and HITACHI Design Center Europe (HDCE), Milan, Italy), Halle, 1998, ISBN 978 -3-86019-016-6

literature

  • Office for Urban Projects: Leipzig Creatives - Their Faces, Their Self-Image, Their Careers and Locations, Leipzig, 2008 [1]
  • Steffen Geissler: Risen from the ruins ... and what next ?: Chronicle of the change in Karl-Marx-Stadt / Chemnitz 1989/90, Heimatland Sachsen, Chemnitz, 1991, ISBN 978-3-910186-02-6
  • SPIEGEL yearbook 2005, ISBN 978-3-423-32005-4
  • Jürgen B. Wolff : "Old works - new workers", in: Leipziger Blätter, Leipzig, 2009, issue 54, page 53,

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ METS. Retrieved August 13, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Federal Agency for Civic Education: Round Tables | Youth opposition in the GDR. Retrieved September 16, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Leipziger Volkszeitung: All-rounder with a penchant for French fries and the Baltic Sea . Ed .: LVZ. Leipzig July 28, 2009, p. 20 .
  4. Jump up ↑ Wonder West: Julia Wolff & Thilo Egenberger in Wonder West . In: Wunderwesten . ( Wunderwesten.de [accessed on September 16, 2017]).
  5. ↑ 7. Comparable success models _ Alte Handelsschule. (No longer available online.) In: Alte Feuerwache in Dresden - Neustadt / Culture and Creative Industries Center. Claudia Muntschick, Dipl.-Ing. Architecture, M. Sc. Monument Preservation and Urban Development, September 10, 2013, archived from the original on June 3, 2014 ; accessed on September 15, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kulturaktiv.org
  6. ^ The East Bloc Leipzig in GDR times. Retrieved September 16, 2017 .
  7. ↑ taff: Sad story: The worst street in Germany | tough. November 22, 2014, accessed September 16, 2017 .
  8. ↑ naruduk: Eisenbahnstraße Leipzig - Crimespot or multicultural wonderland? | ZDF documentary. December 16, 2016, accessed September 16, 2017 .
  9. ↑ Team - LEIPZIG SCHOOL OF DESIGN (LSOD). Retrieved September 16, 2017 .
  10. ↑ HOLM RÖHNER. Retrieved September 16, 2017 .
  11. ↑ Hinrigge Edler Freyer / by Balthasar /. Retrieved September 15, 2017 .
  12. ^ Genealogy. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on September 16, 2017 ; Retrieved September 16, 2017 (American English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.pardylines.com
personal data
SURNAME Röhner, Falk
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Röhner, Walter Wolf Falk (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German designer and businessman
DATE OF BIRTH 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Karl Marx City