Gerhard Matzig

Gerhard Matzig (born May 22, 1963 in Deggendorf ) is a German journalist, graduate engineer and non-fiction author. He was best known for his work as an editor and architecture critic for the Süddeutsche Zeitung .

Life

Matzig completed a degree in law, political science and architecture in Bochum , Passau and Munich . He graduated as a graduate engineer. After a traineeship and various activities as a freelance journalist, he became editor in the features section of the Süddeutsche Zeitung in 1997 , responsible in particular for everything related to urban development and architectural criticism. After Matzig headed the "Weekend" department of the SZ for some time, he switched back to the feature section in 2013.

What is characteristic of the cultural journalist Matzig is his ability to look beyond the boundaries of specialist areas and national peculiarities. He understands architecture and technology as well as zeitgeist and urban sociology. For example, he describes the emerging ecology boom in architecture, design and fashion in the USA and Europe in the second half of the first decade of the 21st century under the heading of “green glamor”. In a world in which most “experts” rarely look beyond their very limited area of ​​expertise, he integrates and broadens the view and thereby proves to be a stylist. In 2013 Matzig received the literature award from the Association of German Architects and Engineers' Associations .

“The fact that age-appropriate attributions as natural bio-spheres in an unbounded all-age society, in which children grow up earlier and later and adults get old later and later, are apparently up for grabs, explains the phenomenon of young neocons apart from economic contexts . Neocons are consequently - on the one hand - the answer to uncertain circumstances and a neo-Biedermeier style of society that can be found everywhere aesthetically, if not spiritual and cultural; on the other hand, it owes its existence to those adults and old people who are not both: grown up or sane. "

- Gerhard Matzig in the Süddeutsche Zeitung on February 28, 2005

Fonts (selection)

• Churches in need. about the profane handling of sacred monuments. German National Committee for Monument Protection , Bonn 1997, ISBN 3-922153-10-0 , ( Series of publications of the German National Committee for Monument Protection, Volume 56).
• Allianz Arena . Süddeutsche Zeitung , Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-86615-402-5 , (with Ellen Maurer Zilioli, Tim Hupe, Otward Buchner, Hubertus Hamm ).
• My wife wants a garden: from the adventure of building a house on the outskirts , Goldmann, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-442-31201-6 .
• Houses of the year: the best single-family houses , Callwey, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-7667-1901-0 .
• Just against it - How we block the future for our children . Goldmann, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-442-31273-3 .
• The curse of the shoe box , in: Süddeutsche Zeitung , March 28, 2015, p. 19 ( Bauhaus criticism )
• Nettelbeck and family: on the adventure of being a father today , Goldmann, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-442-31223-8 .

Editorships:

• Paris, Contemporary Architecture . Prestel, Munich et al. 1997, ISBN 3-7913-1655-9 , (with Andrea Gleiniger, Sebastian Redecke), (also in English: ISBN 3-7913-1678-8 ).
• The great ditch. The end of the consensus society . Süddeutsche Zeitung , Munich 2005, ISBN 3-86615-221-3 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Gerhard Matzig in the catalog of the German National Library
• Interview with Gerhard Matzig on the change in public terminology (PDF, 1999) (118 kB)
• Matzig about the US zeitgeist: "The Neocons and the All-Age Society"

supporting documents

1. ↑ Matzy. May 5, 2005; Archived from the original on May 5, 2005 ; accessed on August 12, 2015 . 
2. ↑ Gerhard Matzig: "I thought: My God, that's cool" . In: sueddeutsche.de . April 28, 2018, ISSN  0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed on September 14, 2018]).
3. ^ "Süddeutsche Zeitung" promotes three women . In: kress . ( kress.de [accessed on September 14, 2018]).
4. ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung December 14, 2007 see press review eurotopics.net  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ↑ Notes on the change in the old battle term "philistine" (heise Telepolis March 4, 2005)
6. ^ DAI Literature Prize, winner since 1980