Herta Frauneder

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Herta Frauneder , married Herta Frauneder-Rottleuthner , (born December 11, 1912 in Bruck an der Mur ; † April 29, 1999 there ) was an Austrian architect .

Live and act

Family grave of the Frauneder family at the St. Ruprecht cemetery in Bruck / Mur (May 2018)

Herta Frauneder was born on December 11, 1912 as the daughter of the landowner Johann "Hans" Paul Frauneder († 1914) and his wife Dora (née Rudin, † 1972) in Bruck an der Mur. Together with her mother, who came from Basel , her two sisters and her grandmother, she lived in the family estate in Bruck / Mur. When asked about her origins, Frauneder always stated that she came from a women's state . Her grandfather Johann "Hans" Frauneder (1857–1917) was a master builder and was involved in the planning of the Böhler works in Kapfenberg . He was also a large landowner in Bruck / Mur. Since there were no more male heirs after the death of Frauneder's father and uncle, the grandfather signed over all the possessions of the municipality of Bruck / Mur. The grandmother was to stay with the rest of the family in the manor and manage it. Together with her older sister, Frauneder was sent to school a year earlier, where she was considered an excellent student and graduated from the Realgymnasium in Bruck / Mur at the age of 17.

Subsequently, she enrolled in the winter semester of 1929 at the Graz University of Technology, specializing in architecture . After the somewhat older Anna-Lülja Praun , she was the second woman to choose this course. At the technical university one tried to put them under pressure. Dealing with her was unfriendly and the professors came up with particularly tough tests. Unlike Anna-Lülja Praun, who had to break off her studies after political harassment from the National Socialists and a serious illness, Frauneder made it to the diploma, which she received in 1935 as the first woman. Fraunhofer had already gained professional experience during her studies. In 1933 she was in Bielefeld for nine months and in 1934 for five months with Herbert Eichholzer in Graz . She passed her first state examination in July 1932; her second state examination in July 1935.

She got her first job after successfully completing her studies in Regensburg , but had to quit after nine months , partly because the pay was so bad and she suffered from scurvy . Subsequently, she recovered with a friend in Timișoara in Romania , where she designed a match factory and a house, among other things, and then took a job with the architect Holzbauer (1898-1939) on Lake Ammersee . Here, too, she was ridiculed by her boss because of her gender; this said: "I never imagined that I place a girl, I would have liked an architect." . After almost three years she ended her activities there and returned in 1938 to her homeland, which now belongs to the Ostmark . Due to the ever-increasing number of works by Hermann Göring , she quickly received several commissions as an architect.

At the beginning of the Second World War she married the architect Ernst Rottleuthner, who, however, had to do his military service soon after the wedding and did not finally return home until 1947. Their three children were born between 1941 and 1944; During this time she was already managing her independent office and was preparing for her civil engineering examination, which she passed in July 1946. Together with her husband until 1968, after the divorce in 1968 she ran her office in Bruck / Mur together with her daughter Elisabeth as an employee until 1988. She only retired at the age of 76. On April 29, 1999, Frauneder died at the age of 86 in her hometown of Bruck / Mur.

In the course of her more than 50-year career, she has been regularly asked whether she is really good at what she does because of her gender.

Work (selection)

Front of the outdoor pool Bruck / Mur (May 2018)
Entrance area of ​​the outdoor pool Bruck / Mur (May 2018)

Frauneder was best known for the swimming pools that were created according to her designs. The first bathroom according to Frauneder's plans was built in Niklasdorf in 1953. This is followed by pools in Hartberg , Güssing , Hallein , Graz-Eggenberg , Bruck / Mur and Trofaiach ; She was involved in the plans for the renovation of the latter bathroom. She attached great importance to a well thought-out internal organizational process, which made it possible to hold competitions and normal bathing activities side by side. Another big concern for her was the swimming area for toddlers, for which she invented the so-called open - air walking school, among other things . This was a paddling pool, slightly lowered in a hollow, which made it easier to supervise the small children.

Her designs were considered a subtle route without signs, through points of view, small stairs and lively fences made of barberries and roses . In addition to the swimming pools, she also designed numerous pieces of furniture and fittings, including those of the Macher pastry shop in her hometown, which was finally closed in 2011. In addition, schools, single-family houses, social housing and business facilities were built according to their plans.

Honors

In the city center of Bruck an der Mur, a street is named after her grandfather Hans Frauneder.old street sign Fraunedergasse old street sign Fraunedergasse

In 2011, a street in Graz that had not yet been named at the time, leading from the Weblinger Gürtel overpass to the north and then parallel to Wagner-Jauregg-Straße, was named in Fraunederstraße in her honor . Alternatively, there is also the name Herta-Frauneder-Straße .

In the garden of the Technical University in Rechbauerstraße in Graz, the WOMENT! a concrete base with a 26.5 × 60 cm Email panel , which commemorates Fraueneder attached.

From June 14 to 17, 2018, an exhibition by the architectural photographer Markus Kaiser about the Bruck an der Mur outdoor swimming pool, which was designed by Herta Frauneder and is now a listed building, took place in the Haus der Architektur in Graz .

literature

  • Ilse Korotin (Ed.): BiografıA. Lexicon of Austrian Women. Volume 1: A-H. Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2016, ISBN 978-3-205-79590-2 , p. 894.
  • Felicitas M. Konecny, Anna G. Wagner: Lifelines . In: Eva & Co. A feminist cultural magazine . Issue 16. Graz.
  • Brigitte Dorfer: Eight famous women in, from and around Graz . In: Ilse Wieser (Ed.): Women in Graz . Graz 2000.

Web links

Commons : Herta Frauneder  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Report to the municipal council on the renaming , accessed on May 4, 2018
  2. ↑ On the birthday of Herta Frauneder-Rottleuthner , accessed on May 4, 2018
  3. ↑ 23 memorial plaques for women / 2003 / Graz , accessed on May 4, 2018
  4. ↑ Herta Frauneder's outdoor pool in Bruck an der Mur , accessed on May 4, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Frauneder, Herta
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Frauneder-Rottleuthner, Herta
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian architect
DATE OF BIRTH December 11, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Bruck an der Mur , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH April 29, 1999
Place of death Bruck an der Mur , Austria