Herta Hammerbacher

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Herta Hammerbacher

Herta Hammerbacher (complete: Herta Fernanda Conradine Hammerbacher ; * December 2, 1900 in Munich ; †  May 25, 1985 in Niederpöcking near Starnberg ) was a German landscape architect who taught at the Technical University of Berlin for more than 20 years .

life and work

Hammerbacher was the daughter of Johannes Hammerbacher, a graduate engineer and economist, and his wife Louise, née Freiin von Feilitzsch, and grew up in Nuremberg. In 1910 the family moved to Berlin, where Hammerbacher attended the girls' Lyceum Cecilienschule in Berlin-Wilmersdorf .

In 1917 she began an apprenticeship as a gardener in Burtenbach , which she continued from 1918 to 1919 in the palace gardens of Potsdam- Sanssouci . During this time she met the gardener Karl Foerster , whose ideas for garden design also influenced her. In the 1920s and 1930s Hammerbacher belonged to what was later called the " Bornimer Circle" around Karl Foerster and his wife Eva , the landscape architects Hermann Mattern and the garden architects Walter Funcke , Hermann Göritz , Karl-Heinz Hanisch , Richard Hansen , Gottfried Kühn , Alfred Reich and Berthold Körting .

From 1919 to 1920 Hammerbacher worked at the Hellwig tree nursery in Gartz (Oder) and met Wolfgang Schadewaldt , who introduced her to Greek humanism . She then moved to the Lake Constance area , where she worked in various companies from 1920 to 1924, wrote short stories and played first violin and viola in the Lindau orchestra "Symposia".

In 1924 she began studying at the Higher Education and Research Institute for Horticulture (LuFA) in Berlin-Dahlem . In 1926 she passed her exams as a state-certified horticultural technician.
From 1926 to 1928 she worked as a horticultural technician in the garden design department of the Späth'schen Baumschulenweg in Berlin-Baumschulenweg . This phase of life in what was then the largest tree nursery in Europe was particularly important in her retrospective, because from there she was already able to complete orders from abroad independently.

In 1928 she formed a working group with Ulrich Wolf , Kurt Lorenzen and Hermann Mattern that lasted 20 years. Also in 1928 she married Hermann Mattern. Their daughter Merete Mattern (1930–2007) later worked as an architect and - partly together with her mother - on ecological settlement issues. The marriage ended in divorce after seven years.

Hammerbacher worked as a landscape architect with a number of well-known architects, including Egon Eiermann - for whose villa Kurt Dienstbach she designed the outdoor area - as well as Otto von Estorff and Gerhard Winkler , who shaped the country house style in the Potsdam area in the 1930s, but also Hans Scharoun who was building city councilor in Berlin after 1946. The contact with Scharoun came about during the construction of Haus Schminke in Löbau , where Herta Hammerbacher designed the garden. On Scharoun's recommendation, in 1946 she became a lecturer for landscape and garden design at the recently reopened TU Berlin . From 1950 until her retirement in 1969 she was a professor there.

With the landscaped gardens she designed , she shaped the style of open space design in West Germany in the 1950s and 1960s. Alone or jointly, she created around 3,500 private and public projects, in Berlin for example gardens in the Zehlendorf forest cemetery , on the northern area of ​​the TU Berlin or in the summer garden at the radio tower . Ten of the gardens she designed are listed , including the outdoor areas of the architectural building of the TU Berlin and the gardens of today's Swedish ambassador's residence , the Villa Ehrenfeucht , in Pücklerstrasse in Dahlem .

In 1985, Hammerbacher was honored with the Friedrich Ludwig von Sckell Ring of Honor from the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts .

Publications

  • Green spaces at youth buildings and schools, in: Planning and building in the new Germany. Cologne / Opladen 1960. pp. 451–456.
  • Green areas and gardens at the hospital, in: Planning and building in the new Germany. Cologne / Opladen 1960. pp. 485-488.

literature

  • Go Jeong-Hi: Herta Hammerbacher (1900–1985). Virtuoso of the new landscape. The garden as a paradigm. University Press of the Technical University of Berlin, Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-7983-2013-0 . (Volume S 18 of the series landscape development and environmental research . At the same time dissertation at the Technical University Berlin 2004.) Full text in the Google book search
  • Hans Christian Förster: a virtuoso of garden architecture . In: TU intern , January 2010. (Press release with short résumé on the occasion of Jeong-Hi’s dissertation)
  • Charlotte Reitsam: Herta Hammerbacher (PDF; 28 kB). In: Garten + Landschaft, No. 11/1998, p. 38f. ISSN  0016-4720 ( CV and bibliography ; PDF; 22 kB)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Bornimer Kreis on the website of the Karl Förster Foundation for Applied Vegetation Science. (Accessed July 2014.)
  2. ↑ Herta Hammerbacher on the website of the Karl Förster Foundation for Applied Vegetation Science. (Accessed July 2014.)
  3. ^ The portrait of women: Professor Herta Hammerbacher from September 12, 1957, on zeit.de
  4. ^ Go Jeong-Hi: Herta Hammerbacher (1900-1985): Virtuoso of the New Landscape: the garden as a paradigm . Univerlagtuberlin, 2006, ISBN 978-3-7983-2013-0 ( google.de [accessed November 12, 2019]).
  5. ^ List, map, database / Landesdenkmalamt Berlin. Retrieved November 12, 2019 .
  6. ↑ In the architecture museum of the TU Berlin. Retrieved November 12, 2019 .
  7. ^ Pücklerstrasse 42-43 , accessed on April 2, 2017
  8. ↑ Landesdenkmalamt Berlin : Garden of the House of Ehrenfeucht , accessed on April 2, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Hammerbacher, Herta
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hammerbacher, Herta Fernanda Conradine (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German landscape architect
DATE OF BIRTH December 2, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH May 25, 1985
Place of death Niederpöcking near Starnberg