Frank Schmitz

Frank Schmitz (* 1972 in Aachen ) is a German art historian and architectural historian .

Life

Schmitz studied art history, philosophy and German at RWTH Aachen University and the Free University of Berlin . There he received his doctorate in 2005 on country houses in Berlin 1933–1945 ; He then worked as a freelance writer and lecturer in art history at the Free University of Berlin and at Touro College Berlin . Since 2007 he has been running the “Bureau for Building History” in Berlin. In 2013/14 Schmitz represented the professorship for New and Modern Art History at the Ruhr University Bochum . From 2014 to 2016 he was a junior professor for architectural history at the University of Hamburg, and since then he has been working on a research project at the Free University of Berlin.

Publications (selection)

• Tempelhof Airport. Berlin's gateway to the world. be.bra Verlag, Berlin 1997.
• Henry Ford Building, Free University of Berlin. Stadtwandel Verlag, Berlin 2007 (German and English edition).
• Architectural guide Unter den Linden. Stadtwandel Verlag, Berlin 2007 (German and English edition).
• Country houses in Berlin 1933–1945 (= The buildings and art monuments of Berlin. Supplement 31). Gebr. Mann Verlag, Berlin 2007 (dissertation, FU Berlin, 2004).
• Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin (= contributions to the preservation of monuments in Berlin. Issue 28) Landesdenkmalamt Berlin, Berlin 2008.
• Documentation Center Forced Labor Berlin-Schöneweide. Stadtwandel-Verlag, Berlin 2010.
• Places of the Nazi dictatorship in Berlin. Stadtwandel Verlag, Berlin 2010.
• Ruhr-University Bochum. Postwar modern architecture vision. Eds. Cornelia Jöchner, Richard Hoppe-Sailer, Frank Schmitz. Gebr. Mann, Berlin 2015.
• Palaces, manors and manors in Berlin. Edited by Markus Jager, Frank Schmitz, Michael Zajonz. Edited by the Berlin State Monument Office. Nicolai, Berlin 2015.
• Auratic spaces of modernity. ed. v. Anna Minta, Frank Schmitz. Critical Reports 2/2016.
• with Ralf Liptau: Pop-tech-ture! The Berlin architect Ursulina Schüler-Witte on her 85th birthday. In: ModerneREGIONAL , February 2, 2018.
• The fear of the national theater. The Bonn Theater (1962–65). In: Kunsttexte 4.2017.
• Eiermann in danger. Town house Krefeld . In: ModerneREGIONAL , November 24, 2017
• Ruhr-University Bochum. In: Oliver Elser, Philip Kurz, Peter Cachola Schmal (Eds.): SOS Brutalismus. An international inventory. Exhibition cat. German Architecture Museum, Frankfurt a. M., Zurich 2017, p. 464 f.
• A key work of modern exhibition construction. The art association building from 1930. In: Uwe Fleckner, Uwe M. Schneede (Hrsg.): Bürgerliche Avantgarde. 200 years of the Kunstverein in Hamburg. Hamburg 2017, pp. 126–143.
• Berlin, underground. There is a risk of total loss of design in the underground stations. In: Deutsche Bauzeitung. May 2017, p. 3.

• Paris - Berlin. Destins Croisés / Neighborhood Relations. Un film de Frédédric Wilner (4/4), broadcaster: arte; Broadcast date November 14, 2015 (also as arte DVD-Éditions 2015). [Interview partner for a four-part television documentary]

Web links

• Literature by and about Frank Schmitz in the catalog of the German National Library