Helmut Bätzner

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Helmut Bätzner (born January 2, 1928 in Nagold ; † January 21, 2010 in Karlsruhe ) was a German architect and designer who lived and worked in Karlsruhe.

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Bätzner's building for the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe

Helmut Bätzner initially trained as a carpenter. Subsequently studied architecture at the Technical University of Stuttgart . He was a student and office worker of Rolf Gutbrod , with whom he realized buildings in Berlin and Cologne. 1962/1963 Bätzner received a scholarship at the Villa Massimo in Rome. Since 1964 he worked as a freelance architect and designer; until 1966 he taught as a lecturer at the Werkkunstschule Krefeld.

1964–1966 Helmut Bätzner designed the Bofinger chair , a plastic chair for the Bofinger company with the model number BA 1171 . The Bofinger chair is the first one-piece plastic chair to be mass-produced. It is ideally suited for mass production, as the product cycle in the prepreg die-casting process only takes five minutes, and there is almost no post-processing necessary. The Bofinger chair was presented at the Cologne furniture fair in 1966 , it served as a model for countless other plastic garden chairs and was produced until 1984.

1970–1975, Helmut Bätzner planned the new building of the Badisches Staatstheater in Karlsruhe. His construction of the community center at the parish church of St. Stephen also dates from the 1970s . Together with Karl Heinz Götz, he built office buildings between 1976 and 1980 for the Badische Gemeinde-Versicherungs-Verband and the Badischer Gemeinde-Unfallversicherungs-Verband in Karlsruhe. In the early 1990s, he managed the conversion of the fruit hall into an art gallery in Rastatt .

Web links

Commons : Helmut Bätzner  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Joachim Göricke: Buildings in Karlsruhe. An architecture guide. 2nd Edition. G. Braun, Karlsruhe 1980, ISBN 3-7650-9017-4 , without page number: list of architects in the appendix.
  2. ↑ List of scholarship holders at Villa Massimo ( Memento of the original from June 2, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed April 8, 2016  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.villamassimo.de
  3. ↑ Information on the private website designwissen.net , accessed on February 24, 2012
  4. ^ Page of the State Theater with information on the history , accessed on December 18, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Bätzner, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH January 2, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Nagold
DATE OF DEATH January 21, 2010
Place of death Karlsruhe