Gerhard Kilger

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Gerhard Kilger (* 1946 in Tübingen ) is a German physicist , freelance artist and lecturer in lithography . Until 2013 he was director of the DASA - Working World Exhibition in Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia .

Life

Gerhard Kilger grew up in Tübingen. After completing his school education, he studied physics and philosophy at the Universities of Freiburg and Tübingen from 1967 to 1974 . He then worked from 1974 to 1980 as a research assistant at the Institute for Applied Physics at the University of Tübingen , where he dealt in particular with the establishment and management of a semiconductor internship as well as research in the field of microminiaturization for the manufacture of semiconductor chips . In 1980 he did his doctorate at the Institute for Applied Physics with a dissertation on electron beam lithography .

Kilger has also worked as a freelance artist since 1972. He also taught and teaches as a part-time lecturer in lithography at the European Summer Academy in Trier as well as at the University of Tübingen and the artists' houses in Heidelberg, Mannheim and Tübingen.

The DASA in Dortmund (2011).

From 1980 to 1988 he was first curator and later chief curator at the State Museum for Technology and Work (since 2010: Technoseum ) in Mannheim . In 1988 he became director of the German Labor Exhibition in Dortmund, which is part of the Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health , and holds the position until 2013. During his term of office, the further development and the extensive expansion of the exhibition , which has appeared as the DASA - Working World Exhibition since 2000 , fall . The federal institution with an exhibition area of ​​approx. 13,000  m² has since been one of the “largest and most modern technology museums in Germany”. Since 2001 Kilger has organized the annual scenography colloquium at DASA. Since 2014 he has been the initiator and head of the scenography summit, in which important experts from museums, universities and design offices are represented.

Kilger is a member of the advisory board of the DFB-Stiftung Deutsches Fußballmuseum gGmbH, which is entrusted with the content and construction planning of the German Football Museum.

Publications (selection)

Editor and authorship
  • Scenography in exhibitions and museums IV. Space and body - body space, creativity and space creation. Klartext, Essen 2010, ISBN 978-3-8375-0305-0 (co-editor: Wolfgang Müller-Kuhlmann; edited for: DASA / Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health; contributions to two colloquia in 2008 and 2009 at DASA).
  • Scenography in exhibitions and museums III. Spatial experience or adventure park, space-time / time-space. Klartext, Essen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89861-742-0 (co-editor: Wolfgang Müller-Kuhlmann; published for: DASA / Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health; contributions to two colloquia in 2006 and 2007 at DASA).
  • Scenography in exhibitions and museums II. Spaces of knowledge, art and space - space through art. Klartext, Essen 2006, ISBN 3-89861-462-X (co-editor: Wolfgang Müller-Kuhlmann; published for: DASA / Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health; contributions to two colloquia in 2004 and 2005 at DASA).
  • Scenography in exhibitions and museums I. Scenography in exhibitions and museums, spatial criteria and interior design, hybrid spaces. Klartext, Essen 2004, ISBN 3-89861-084-5 (co-editor: Wolfgang Müller-Kuhlmann; published for: DASA / Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health; Documentation of the lectures from the three scenography colloquia 2000, 2002 and 2003 at DASA) .
  • New quality of work. How we will work tomorrow. Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2002, ISBN 3-593-37161-8 (co-editor: Hans-Jürgen Bieneck; edited for: DASA, German occupational safety exhibition of the Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health ; collection of articles; online at Google books).
  • People, work, technology. Catalog for the German occupational safety exhibition. Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne 1993, ISBN 3-7927-1405-1 (co-editor: Ulrich Zumdick; published for: Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health ; exhibition catalog ).
Authorship
  • Quality of Work as a Cultural Achievement of the Present. In: Helmut Strasser (Ed.): Quality of Work and Products in Enterprises of the Future. Ergonomics. Ergonomia-Verlag, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-935089-68-6 (partly German, partly English).
  • Investigation of the electron-optical properties of deflection systems for the application of electron-lithographic image recording. Thesis , University of Tübingen , Tübingen 1980 ( dissertation , University of Tübingen, Faculty of Applied Physics, 1980).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Information on Prof. Dr. Gerhard Kilger . On: Website of the Center for Art Transfer (IDFactory) at the Technical University of Dortmund ; Retrieved July 26, 2011.
personal data
SURNAME Kilger, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physicist, freelance artist, lecturer and exhibition director
DATE OF BIRTH 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Tübingen