Heinz Hirdina

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Heinz Hirdina (born March 5, 1942 ; † December 19, 2013 in Berlin ) was a German design theorist and publicist .

Life

Heinz Hirdina studied philosophy and cultural studies in Jena , Leipzig and Berlin from 1961 to 1966 . Until 1968 he worked as an editor for the newspaper " Sonntag " and for the Aufbau-Verlag , Berlin. This was followed by collaboration on the design magazine form + Zweck until 1972 , from 1973 to 1979 as its editor-in-chief. From 1980 to 1986 he was responsible for the editing of the design publications at Dresden Verlag der Kunst . After receiving his doctorate in 1973, he completed his habilitation in 1988 and from 1987 worked as a lecturer at the Berlin-Weißensee School of Art . In 1993 he was offered the chair for Theory and History of Design, which he held until 2005. Heinz Hirdina was married to the art and literary scholar Karin Hirdina . The estate of Karin and Heinz Hirdina, with a focus on the history of the Bauhaus in East Germany between 1945 and 1989 , is in the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation .

Works

  • Design for the series , Verlag der Kunst, Dresden, 1988, ISBN 3-364-00042-5
  • Figure and reason: Lectures on the history and theory of design: Volume I Edition Bauhaus 40 , Spectormag, Leipzig, nn, ISBN 978-3-944669-35-9
  • In the end everything is design , Verlag Form + Zweck, Berlin, 2008, ISBN 978-3-935053-15-0
  • Aesthetic formation and reception under the conditions of socialized work and production, a contribution to the aesthetics of industrial design , Diss. A, Humboldt University, Berlin, 1973
  • Functionalism as a design principle, texts on the history of design , Diss. B (Habil.), Humboldt University, Berlin, 1988

Publications (selection)

  • Postmodernes Interieur (1987), in: Brecht 88 / ed. By Wolfgang Heise, pp. 246–255, Berlin, 1987
  • New building, new design: the new Frankfurt, the new city; a magazine. between 1926 a. 1933 , Verlag der Kunst, Dresden, 1984
  • 50 Years of Bauhaus Dessau (1976), in: Form + Zweck, No. 6, Berlin, 1976
  • There is no competition to us , in: Design in Berlin, Vice Versa, Berlin, 2005, ISBN 3-932809-52-1
  • Postmodernism and functionalism: six lectures , with Bruno Flierl, 1985
  • Rationalized housework: the kitchen in the new building , in: Jahrbuch für Volkskunde und Kulturgeschichte 26, 1983
  • The red line: Heinz Hirdina on the change in meaning of a design element , in: Design Report, No. 4, pp. 62–63. : Ill., Frankfurt / Main, 1994
  • The avant-garde and the way to Byzantium , Form + Zweck, No. 910, pp. 98–117. : Ill., Berlin, 1994
  • Bauhaus Möbel, in: Möbel und Wohnraum 34, No. 5, pp. 131-134, 1981
  • The desert and design: Otl Aicher and Ettore Sottsass , in: Design Report, No. 9, pp. 42–43, Frankfurt / Main, 1995
  • The search for the objective form , in: Wissenschaftliche Zeitschrift der Hochschule für Architektur und Bauwesen, 29 (1983), No. 5/6, pp. 474–478. : Ill., Weimar, 1983
  • ... beauty must never be ashamed of its purpose , in: Form + Zweck, No. 5, pp. 30–38, Berlin, 1987

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Department of Theory and History of the Kunsthochschule Berlin , accessed on September 20, 2015.
  2. ↑ Günter Höhne, NEWSLETTER 01/2014 , One Questioner , One Researcher - Zum Tode Heinz Hirdina, accessed September 20, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Hirdina, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German design theorist and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH March 5, 1942
DATE OF DEATH 19th December 2013
Place of death Berlin