Günter Behnisch

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Günter Behnisch (born June 12, 1922 in Lockwitz near Dresden ; † July 12, 2010 in Stuttgart ) was a German architect and professor of architecture . He gained worldwide fame through the construction of the Munich Olympic site (1967–1972).

Life

Hans-Baldung-Gymnasium Schwäbisch Gmünd (1954)
HoGy Göppingen (1959)
Stuttgart, Hysolar House.
The sun sail built in 1969 in Dortmund's Westfalenpark is considered an experimental building for the feasibility of the self-supporting roof construction that was implemented in the Munich Olympic Stadium.
The Munich Olympic Stadium , which was completed in 1972 and the capital of the 1972 Summer Olympics.
The new plenary hall of the German Bundestag in Bonn, completed in 1992 (today part of the Bundeshaus in Bonn ).
The distinctive control tower at Nuremberg Airport

Günter Behnisch first grew up in Dresden. In 1934, when he was 12, his family moved to Chemnitz with him . Not yet 18 years old, he was drafted into the Wehrmacht in 1939 . During the Second World War , Behnisch was a submarine commander (U 2337) and was taken prisoner by the British . In 1947 he returned from England to Germany, where he studied architecture from 1947 to 1951 at the Technical University of Stuttgart . He then worked from 1951 to 1952 in Rolf Gutbrod's architectural office in Stuttgart .

In 1952, Behnisch founded his own office in Stuttgart, which he ran with Bruno Lambart until 1956 . In 1966 the architectural group Behnisch & Partner was founded, which Behnisch led under changing names with one or more partners. The office was closed in 2005. In 1989 his son Stefan Behnisch founded a branch office in Stuttgart, which became independent in 1991 and now operates worldwide under the name Behnisch Architects . From 1967 to 1987 Günter Behnisch was full professor for drafting, industrial construction and building design at the Technical University of Darmstadt and at the same time director of the institute for standardization there.

In 1982 Behnisch became a member of the Academy of the Arts in Berlin and in 1984 an honorary doctorate from the University of Stuttgart. In 1996 he was appointed a founding member of the Saxon Academy of the Arts , of which he headed the architecture class until 2000.

Günter Behnisch was married and had two daughters and a son. He died on July 12, 2010 after a long illness at the age of 88 in Stuttgart.

Prizes and awards

buildings

Günter Behnisch was regarded as one of the most important representatives of modern architecture in Germany and as an “advocate of democratic building without any status or power symbolism”, he was called the “master builder of democracy”. An early work is the listed Hohenstaufen high school in Göppingen (1959).

The buildings he created, in which he brought "freedom into glass-airy forms", shaped the image of the Federal Republic of Germany in the world. The Olympic site in Munich created by the architects Olympiapark in the Behnisch & Partner office on the occasion of the 1972 Summer Olympics from 1967 to 1972 , where the “floating roof” designed by Frei Otto for the 1967 World Exhibition in Montreal, was further developed. The office was also with the order of 1992 finished someone new plenary hall of the German Bundestag in Bonn (now part of the Bonn Federal Parliament ). Behnisch became world famous for the Munich Olympic Stadium , which was developed together with Frei Otto .

estate

His extensive work archive is in the Southwest German Archive for Architecture and Civil Engineering .

Movies

  • Günter Behnisch, architect. Documentation and discussion, Germany, 2001, 28 min., Moderation: Markus Brock , director: Stefan Bub, production: SWR , series: Treffpunkt bei…, film data from ARD and data from SLUB .
  • The beauty of transparency - the architect Günter Behnisch. Documentary, Germany, 1996, min., Script and direction: Joachim Haupt and Sabine Pollmeier, production: Parnass Film.

literature

  • Jana Bille, Beate Ritter (ed.): Günter Behnisch on his 75th birthday. A commemorative publication. (on the occasion of the exhibition "Günter Behnisch: Architekturmodelle" from November 15, 1997 to January 18, 1998, Städtische Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz ) Chemnitz 1997, ISBN 3-930116-09-X .
  • Peter Blundell Jones: Günter Behnisch. (translated by Nora von Mühlendahl) Birkhäuser, Basel / Berlin / Boston 2000, ISBN 3-7643-6046-1 .
  • Günter Behnisch, Stefan Behnisch, Günther Schaller: Behnisch, Behnisch & Partner. Buildings and designs. Birkhäuser, Basel / Berlin / Boston 2003, ISBN 3-7643-6931-0 .
  • Folkhard Cremer: Fully assembled schools in the service of the open society. The school buildings of the Günter Behnisch office from the 1960s. In: Monument Preservation in Baden-Württemberg , 40th year 2011, issue 3, pp. 143–149 ( PDF ).
  • Elisabeth Spieker: Günter Behnisch. The evolution of the architectural work: buildings, thoughts and interpretations . Dissertation , University of Stuttgart , Stuttgart 2006 ( full text available online )
  • Jörg H. Damm (Ed.), Oliver Zybok u. a .: Course correction. Architecture and change in Bonn . Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern-Ruit 2002, ISBN 3-7757-1269-0 .
  • Berlin - Pariser Platz: New building for the Academy of Arts , Werner Durth , Günter Behnisch, published by the Academy of Arts. (Translated into English by Lucinda Rennison, translated from Hungarian by Hans-Henning Paetzke). Jovis, Berlin 2005, ISBN 978-3-936314-36-6 .

Web links

Commons : Günter Behnisch  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Imprint | Behnisch & Partner. Retrieved November 14, 2017 .
  2. ^ Eberhard Wein: early work under monument protection. Stuttgarter Zeitung , March 23, 2015, accessed on August 8, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Architect of the transparent Germany. Spiegel Online , July 12, 2010, accessed July 13, 2010 .
  4. ^ Katrin Voermanek: Houses for a humane society. Stuttgarter Zeitung , July 13, 2010, accessed on January 7, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Behnisch, Günter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH June 12, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH July 12, 2010
Place of death Stuttgart