Goerd Peschken

Goerd Peschken (born June 22, 1931 in Nordhausen ) is a German building researcher .

Goerd Peschken first learned to be a carpenter and after completing his apprenticeship in 1953 began studying architecture at the Technical University of Berlin, where he received his doctorate in 1965 with a thesis on "Technological Aesthetics in Schinkel's Architecture" at the Schinkel Building Academy in Berlin-Mitte. From 1970 to 1975 he taught architectural history there before he - meanwhile habilitated with the reconstruction of the architectural textbook by Karl Friedrich Schinkel - moved to the University of Fine Arts Hamburg as professor of architecture in 1975 . Here he retired in 1996 .

Goerd Peschken has made a name for himself above all as an expert on Karl Friedrich Schinkel and Andreas Schlüter and through his research on the Berlin City Palace .

His most outstanding work is seen as his reconstruction of Schinkel's never materialized architectural textbook, which Paul Ortwin Rave entrusted him with . The dispute with his successor, Margarete Kühn, affected his scientific career.

Today he is considered one of the most important German building historians of the 20th century, although he never held a chair in building history.

He is referred to as a leftist, but without having a specific party-political preference. Opponents of the project for the reconstruction of the Berlin City Palace, which he realized together with his befriended architect Frank Augustin in 1991, and which was the basis for the simulation of the palace in urban space in 1992-93, he was also referred to as a right-wing man.

Fonts (selection)

• Karl Friedrich Schinkel : The architectural textbook: Karl Friedrich Schinkel life's work (= life's work. Volume 14). Modifications made by Goerd Peschken. Edited by Margarete Kühn . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1979. (Reprint 2001, ISBN 3-422-06329-3 )
• with Hans-Werner Klünner: The Berlin Palace: The classic Berlin. Propylaea, Frankfurt am Main 1982, ISBN 3-549-06652-X .
• Democracy and Temples: The Importance of Doric Architecture. Der Beeken, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-922993-20-9 . (in French translation: Corinne Jaquand: Temple et Démocratie, La signification de l'architecture dorique. In: marnes, documents d'architecture. vol 3, Edition de la Villette, France 2014, ISBN 978-2-915456-87-5 )
• The royal palace in Berlin. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1992 ff.
  • Volume 1: The building history from 1688 to 1701. With addenda on the building history of the castle since 1442. 1992, ISBN 3-422-06096-0 .
  • Volume 2: The history of construction from 1701 to 1706. 1998, ISBN 3-422-06221-1 .
  • Volume 3: The baroque interiors. 2001, ISBN 3-422-06341-2 .
• Political building history: Schinkel, city of Berlin, Prussian castles. Ten essays with self-comments. Vieweg, Braunschweig 1993, ISBN 3-528-08796-X .

literature

• Frank Augustin (ed.): History and care. Gebr. Mann, Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-7861-1648-2 (= Festschrift for Goerd Peschken)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Dieter Hoffmann-Axthelm: A wide awake political person Goerd Peschken on his 80th birthday. In: Bauwelt. 33/2011, p. 4, dated August 26, 2011, viewed online on March 20, 2019.
2. ^ Goerd Peschken: Technological Aesthetics in Schinkel's Architecture . In: Journal of the German Association for Art History . Issue 1/2, 1968.
3. ^ Goerd Peschken: The architectural textbook . In: Karl Friedrich Schinkel's life's work . 1st edition. German Kunstverlag, Munich 1979, ISBN 3-422-00688-5 .
4. ^ Goerd Peschken and Frank Augustin with Margarete Peschken, Martina Guddat and Thomas Schriever: Berlin: On the restitution of urban space and the castle . Ed .: Goerd Peschken and Frank Augustin. Self-published, Berlin 1991, OCLC 631987897 .
5. ^ Alan Balfour: Berlin Futures . In: Alan Balfour (Ed.): World Cities Berlin . Academy Editions / Ernst & Sohn, London / Berlin 1995, ISBN 1-85490-374-8 , pp. 303 .