Gerrit Confurius

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Gerrit Confurius (2018)

Gerrit Confurius (born February 12, 1946 in Lübeck ) is a German - Dutch writer . He studied German in Hamburg , Vienna and Munich . After working as a lecturer at Greno , he was editor of the Bauwelt ; then editor-in-chief of Daidalos magazine .

Life

Gerrit Confurius grew up in Lübeck, where he lived until he began studying German and sociology in combination with theater history , philosophy and art history in Hamburg , Vienna and Munich , which he graduated from the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich in 1980 . He received his doctorate with a thesis on the intellectual history of architecture. For his publication Sabbioneta or the Fine Art of Founding a City , he received the City of Munich's Literature Prize in 1982. After a period of freelance work with numerous trips all over Europe and a few publications, he joined Greno-Verlag in Nördlingen as an editor in 1986, for which he was primarily responsible for photo books until its dissolution in 1989. Then he was editor of the weekly Bauwelt in Berlin. In 1994 he took over the management of the Daidalos - Berlin Architectural Journal from Ulrich Conrads , with Werner Oechslin , Gerhard Auer , Jan Piper, Gert Mattenklott , Ulrich Conrads, initially also Wolfgang Meisenheimer and Günther Feuerstein , later with Bart Lootsma . In 1998 the Bertelsmann company considered discontinuing the job because of the drastic decline in advertising volume. The magazine then went to the publisher Gordon & Breach until it was discontinued in 2000 when the publisher was downsized. This was followed by freelance activities - various lectures in Frankfurt am Main , Graz , Vienna, Lisbon , Hamburg and Lübeck - and magazine articles, primarily on architectural and urban planning topics in magazines ( Wespennest , Am Erker , Werk und Zeit , Architecture d'Aujourd ' hui , Archithese , Werk Bauen und Wohnen ), and daily newspapers ( FAZ , Der Standard ). A teaching position for social science at the University of Applied Sciences Görlitz lasted 3 semesters. In 2001 he was - in cooperation with Paula Martins Barata (Promontorio), Luis Tavarez Pereira (Aindaarquitetura) and Nuno Grande (University of Coimbra) - significantly involved in the organization of a three-day symposium on architecture and urban development in Porto on the occasion of the appointment as European Capital of Culture . In the essay on the photo book by Isolde Ohlbaum Because all lust wants eternity , he deals with the history of the cemeteries and the grave sculptures and in particular the temporally and spatially limited phenomenon of erotic grave sculptures. A second focus is on theoretical concepts of personal crisis and the range of meaningful narratives. This topic is discussed in the “Pinocchio Effect” and “Ichzwang”.

Gerrit Confurius lives as a freelance author in Berlin. He is divorced and the father of Lucas Confurius , Henriette Confurius and Carl Confurius.

Awards

Publications (selection)

  • 1979: Klaus Störtebeker , in: Beach No. 6 , Frankfurt / Main, lies under the pavement
  • 1983: Sabbioneta - or the fine art of founding a city , (Hanser) Munich
  • 1985: Scholarship holder and Munich Literature Prize.
  • 1986: Together with Isolde Ohlbaum (photography), Because all lust wants eternity , (Greno) Nördlingen 1986
  • 1986: Sentimental journey through the north of Munich, in: Stadtbauwelt 91.
  • Bw 7/8, 1986: Rationalism in Fascism . Two forgotten sociopolitical experiments in Italy in the 1930s: the Colonie and Sabaudia .
  • June - October 1990: Catalog contribution to the Karlsruhe exhibition Idealstadt : Sabbioneta. Karlsruhe, June - October.
  • Bw 13, 1990: Two canals (in Italy and in Paris): Canal St. Martin in Paris.
  • Bw 41, 1990, pleasure houses by the water (The Vechtstreek in Holland).
  • 1991: 2nd edition by Fischer Tabu, Frankfurt / Main.
  • Bw 29/30, 1991, Lübeck.
  • Bw 1/2, 1992, Paris.
  • March 1993: The city of lines. On the concept of the Bandstadt, in: Daidalos No. 47 ways.
  • March 1995: Heavy seas and heavy water. Watermarks by Edgar Allan Poe and Andrej Tarkowski, in: Daidalos No. 55, Wasserkünste.
  • December 1995: The interior design of the art of memory, in: Daidalos No. 58 Memoria.
  • December 1996: The hotel lobby as a gap, in: Daidalos No. 62 Overnight.
  • March 1997: Jules Verne's crater architecture, in: Daidalos No. 63 Extreme of Topography.
  • 1999: Tempelhof Airport by Ernst Sagebiel, in: The XX. Century. A century of art in Germany. Architecture in Berlin. DuMont , Cologne
  • 2000: Attempt at a new beginning for all of Germany: to create order in the desperate disorder. Hans Scharoun as an urban planner, in: Stadt der Architektur der Stadt, Berlin 1900–2000. Nicolai.
  • March 2004: My government is no longer interested in beauty. Missiles are better than academies. How Castro did not turn the Cubans into artists after all, in FAZ .
  • August 2003: First and second grade. Havana is divided into zones of reconstruction and zones of oblivion, in: Der Standard, Vienna.
  • November 2004: Everyday Situationism, Topos Space, Akademie der Künste, Berlin.
  • Bw21, 2005: Casa da Musica in Porto. 
  • 2008: Venice's Second Face, in: Am Erker No. 55. Münster.
  • 2009: The Pinocchio Effect. The attachment of the self in an upside-down world. Special number, Vienna.
  • 2011: I had to. Matthes & Seitz, Berlin.
  • 2017: Architecture and Intellectual History. The intellectual place of European architecture. Transcript, Bielefeld.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gerrit Confurius profile and vita at http://www.matthes-seitz-berlin.de . Retrieved September 13, 2015
  2. ↑ Gerrit Confurius profile and vita at http://gerritconfurius.jimdo.com/ . Retrieved September 13, 2015
  3. ↑ Architecture as a place of reflection .
  4. ↑ Photo volumes by René Burri , Herlinde Koelbl , Isolde Ohlbaum , Christine de Grancy .
  5. ↑ Reviews in the FAZ u. a. in the views of Hermann Kurzke's magazines and on the humanities page of Henning Ritter 1994-1997. Comments also by Hans-Jürgen Heinrichs in Norddeutscher Rundfunk June 24, 1996, Dorothe Nolte in Tagesspiegel, December 25, 1996 .
  6. ↑ Ulrich Clewing in the FAZ
  7. ↑ Lectures: - November 1991 “Italian Architecture of the Thirties”, in a series of events organized by the Overbeck Society in the “Gemeinnützige” in Lübeck - July 1998 on the subject of “The tiny” in a series of events organized by Protestant adult education in Frankfurt / Main - City Nord . From prototype to symbol of failure. - A Hamburg district. Architectural monument, living space, future. Symposium of the Free Academy of Arts, Hamburg. September 2000 - Architecture and / as Language, Vienna University of Technology, December 2000 - November 2004: Everyday Situationism, Topos Space, Akademie der Künste, Berlin on the work of Ricardo Porro November 3, 2005 at the Ibero-American Institute. - September 2010: Venice's second face. The literary Venice. German-Italian Society in Lübeck.
  8. ↑ Lecturer in Görlitz SS 2005 "Human Perception" and WS 2005/06 "Social Action"
  9. ^ Symposium on architecture and urban development in Porto on the occasion of the nomination as European Capital of Culture. Publication of the articles in: Prototypo 007 August 2002. Cidade em Performance / Performing the City .
  10. ↑ Helmut Kronthaler, Sabbioneta or From Standstill of Time, in the Landshuter Zeitung December 19, 1985 .
  11. ^ Review by Günter Kunert in the FAZ 1986 .
  12. ↑ Represented by Joseph Paul Kleihues and Ulrich Paul Kahlfelt on behalf of the exhibition office “Berlin 1900-2000” .
personal data
SURNAME Confurius, Gerrit
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Dutch writer and author
DATE OF BIRTH February 12, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck