Jürgen Peters (Designer)

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Jürgen Peters (* 1931 in Wittstock / Dosse ; † February 23, 2009 in Berlin ) was a German designer who was responsible for the design of many industrial and consumer products in the GDR .

Life

Jürgen Peters was born in Wittstock, but grew up in Goldberg, Mecklenburg . There he learned the blacksmith's trade from 1947 to 1950 . He then studied at the technical college for applied arts in Wismar and after three years switched to the college for fine and applied arts in Berlin-Weißensee. As a student, he presented design drafts for consumer goods that were also produced. In 1958 he completed his studies in Weißensee as a qualified industrial designer.

He then worked on the design of locomotives and technical consumer goods. With his functionalist designs, Peters became involved in a new edition of the formalism controversy: Karl-Heinz Hagen published a review of the design exhibition at the Fifth German Art Exhibition in Dresden in the ND in October 1962 . Among the designers criticized by name was Peters with his stereo 72 phonograph device , which Hagen characterized as cold and more suitable for a laboratory than for an apartment. Stereo 72 was not produced.

In 1965, Peters became head of the “Housing” department at the Central Institute for Design , which in 1972 became the Office for Industrial Design (AIF). From 1972 to 1981, Peters was head of the “Technical Consumer Goods” department at the AIF. In 1981 he received the GDR design award . He worked at the AIF until 1990, most recently as head of the “Design Strategy” department.

drafts

  • Alex television set , Stern-Radio Berlin 1957
  • Single-lens reflex camera Pentina , VEB Pentacon Dresden, production from 1960 (Diploma thesis by Peters from 1958)
  • Typewriter E 14/15, first model with plastic cladding, designed in 1961 together with Gerhard Schöne, honored as Gute Form in 1964
  • Diesel locomotive V 180 , participation in design 1961
  • Bebo sher Junior razor , production from 1962, gold medal for excellent design 1962
  • Diesel locomotive V 200 with body parts made of GRP (1965)
  • Radio Olympic
  • TV Weissensee
  • V 100 diesel locomotive

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Horst Kamke: Get out of anonymity . In: Schweriner Volkszeitung , August 13, 2014.
  2. ^ Katharina Pfützner: "But a home is not a laboratory": The Anxieties of Designing for the Socialist Home in the German Democratic Republic 1950-1965 . In: Robin Schuldfrei (Ed.): Atomic Dwelling: Anxiety, Domesticity, and Postwar Architecture . Routledge, Oxon 2012, ISBN 978-0-415-67609-0 , pp. 158-163.
  3. ^ "Alex" television set in the collection of the Museum Pankow
  4. ↑ Gold medals for industrial formers . In: Neues Deutschland , September 14, 1962.
  5. ↑ TEMPO 1965 on form-gestaltung-ddr.de
personal data
SURNAME Peters, Jürgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German designer
DATE OF BIRTH 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Wittstock / Dosse
DATE OF DEATH February 23, 2009
Place of death Berlin