Helmut Striffler

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Helmut Striffler (2009)
Reconciliation Church Dachau (1964–1967)
Trinity Church Mannheim (1959)
Jonakirche Mannheim (1962)
Martin Luther Church Ilvesheim (1964)
Reconciliation Church Mannheim (1965)
Mannheim District Court (1970)
Sparkasse Mannheim (1981)
State Central Bank Ludwigshafen (1992)

Helmut Striffler (born February 1, 1927 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein ; † February 2, 2015 in Mannheim ) was a German architect and university professor .

Helmut Striffler was mainly active in Mannheim and became known for his church buildings in the 1950s and 1960s. His best-known building is the brutalist Church of Reconciliation on the site of the former Dachau concentration camp , which was built between 1964 and 1967.

Life

Striffler passed his Abitur examination in 1947, then first worked as a bricklayer before completing an internship in the engineering office of the construction department at BASF in 1949 . However, his original career aspiration was aircraft builder. Nevertheless, in 1950 he began studying architecture at the Technical University of Karlsruhe . His teachers there were Otto Ernst Schweizer , Otto Haupt , Rudolf Büchner and Egon Eiermann , for whom he built the Matthäuskirche in Pforzheim in 1952 as construction manager .

With Otto Bartning he attended summer courses at the TH Darmstadt on church building. In 1955 he successfully completed his architecture studies in Karlsruhe. From 1956 Striffler worked as a freelance architect with a main office in Mannheim and temporary branch offices in Bochum and Dresden .

From 1969 to 1974 Striffler taught at the Technical University of Hanover and then until his retirement in 1992 at the Technical University of Darmstadt as a professor of design and building science.

In 1988 he took over the chairmanship of the Werkbund in Baden-Württemberg.

In 2000 he founded the "Büro Striffler + Striffler Architekten GmbH Mannheim".

On October 15, 2008, the BTU Cottbus awarded him an honorary doctorate for his life's work and his academic achievements in research and teaching .

buildings

  • 1956–1959: Trinity Church in Mannheim
  • 1958–1959: Ziegler residence in Mannheim-Lindenhof
  • 1960–1962: Jonakirche with parish hall and kindergarten in Mannheim-Blumenau
  • 1960–1962: Schiller School in Mannheim-Neckarau
  • 1961–1962: Dr. Friedmann in Mannheim-Pfingstberg (now Haus Odenwald)
  • 1961–1963: Evang. Rectory in Neustadt / Weinstrasse
  • 1961–1965: Evangelical Reconciliation Church with parish hall in Mannheim-Rheinau
  • 1962–1963: Striffler's house and office in Mannheim-Lindenhof
  • 1963–1964: Evangelical Martin Luther Church in Ilvesheim
  • 1964–1967: Reconciliation Church on the site of the former Dachau concentration camp
  • 1964–1969: shopping center and high-rise residential buildings in the Mannheim-Vogelstang district center
  • 1964–1970: Conference venue of the Evang. North Elbe Academy in Bad Segeberg
  • 1965–1970: Mannheim District Court
  • 1965–1973: Ecumenical study program with Thomas Center in Bochum
  • 1966–1969: Evang. Comenius community center, Ludwigshafen-Oggersheim West
  • 1967–1968: Latour house, Ludwigshafen-Rheingönheim
  • 1967–1968: Mathilde Striffler's house, Ludwigshafen- Rheingönheim
  • 1967–1973: Evang. Community center in Düren- Birkesdorf
  • 1968–1972: Evang. Church, Stapelfeld-Braak (in collaboration with architect Grundmann, Hamburg)
  • 1968–1973: Center Tübingen- Waldhäuser Ost with residential high-rise
  • 1968–1971: Evangelical community center and ecumenical preparatory college in Bochum- Wiemelhausen
  • 1971–1981: Ev. Pauluskirche and community center in Mainz
  • 1974–1977: Administration building of the public insurance company of the Baden savings banks in Mannheim
  • 1975–1976: Administration building for Treuarbeit AG in Hanover
  • 1976: House with doctor's practice Dr. Rebel in Neustadt-Gimmeldingen / Palatinate
  • 1976–1977: Fohlenweide riding facility in Mannheim-Neckarau (places, stables, riding arenas, apartments)
  • 1976–1977: Striffler residential and commercial building in Mannheim, Steubenstr.
  • 1977–1978: Scheidel house in Mannheim-Lindenhof
  • 1977–1981: Conversion of the Stadtsparkasse, head office in Mannheim
  • 1979–1983: Administration building for the Süddeutsche Eisen- und Stahl-Berufsgenossenschaft in Mannheim
  • 1981–1983: Mourning hall in Cologne-Chorweiler
  • 1988: Saarlouis branch of the Landeszentralbank in Saarland
  • 1990: Culture hall in Remchingen
  • 1994: Laboratory expansion of the University of Applied Sciences in Mannheim
  • 1995–1998: Expansion of the Schillerschule in Mannheim-Neckarau
  • 1999: International meeting center for science in Potsdam
  • 1989–1992: Reconstruction and expansion of the Landeszentralbank Rheinland-Pfalz in Speyer
  • 1997: Training center of the Chamber of Crafts in Mannheim-Wohlhotels
  • 1998: Dental house in Saxony and service building of the Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians in Dresden

Awards

  • 1967: BDA Prize Bavaria
  • 1970: Hugo Häring Prize of the BDA Baden-Württemberg
  • 1975: Big BDA Prize (Prize went to the working committee of the Protestant Church Building Day, of which Striffler was second chairman)
  • 1977: Good Buildings Award
  • 1978: Hugo Häring Prize from the BDA Baden-Württemberg
  • 1983: Good Buildings Award
  • 1987: Good Buildings Award
  • 1989: Silver plaque as part of the federal competition "Industry, trade and craft in urban development"
  • 1991: Second prize in the architecture prize for the plumbing trade
  • 1993: Good Buildings Award
  • 1993: Exemplary buildings in Rhineland-Palatinate
  • 1999: Good Buildings Award
  • 1999: Special award for ecology from the Bitumen Roofing and Sealing Membrane Industry Association
  • 2000: First prize for gardening and landscaping in Saxony

literature

  • Ingeborg Flagge (Ed.), Helmut Striffler (Ill.), Robert Häusser (Ill.): Helmut Striffler Architect - Photographer Robert Häusser . Junius Verlag, 2002, ISBN 3-88506-518-5 .
  • Eva Seemann: The city needs modern churches. Helmut Striffler's sacred buildings in Mannheim. In: Preservation of Monuments in Baden-Württemberg , Vol. 47 No. 1/2011, pp. 44–49 ( online , PDF 568 kB)

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Karin Leydecker : Master of an honest modern. Mannheimer Morgen, February 7, 2015, accessed on May 13, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Pictures of the award of the honorary doctorate ( memento from March 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ^ Obituary by BTU Cottbus ( Memento from March 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ History - Ev. Pauluskirchengemeinde Mainz -. December 17, 2017, accessed May 31, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Striffler, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH February 1, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Ludwigshafen am Rhein
DATE OF DEATH February 2, 2015
Place of death Mannheim