Joachim Langner

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Joachim Langner (born October 1, 1929 in Tarnowitz (Upper Silesia), today Tarnowskie Góry (Poland); † December 1, 2017 in Ludwigshafen ) was a German architect . His most famous buildings include the extension of the Reiss Museum , the Mannheim City Hall and the Multihalle in Mannheim, all of which he designed together with his office partners.

Life

Langner completed his architecture studies with a degree in engineering. The sister cities Mannheim and Ludwigshafen formed the center of his life and work. In 1971 he and Dieter Wessa became the office partner of Carlfried Mutschler . Five works by the Mannheim office were granted cultural monument status in 1998: the Pfingstbergkirche , the Lukaskirche, the Friedrich-Ebert-Schule, the residential and studio buildings E 7, 7 and the Multihalle .

Langner became known nationwide because of his involvement in the planning of the multi-hall for the 1975 Federal Garden Show in Mannheim's Herzogenriedpark with the largest multi-curved wooden lattice shell roof in the world. The Multihalle was designed by Langner and Mutschler and realized together with Frei Otto . In 1978, Joachim Langner, together with Carlfried Mutschler and the client for the Multihalle, received the Hugo-Häring-Preis from the Baden-Württemberg regional association of the Association of German Architects . When the demolition of the Multihalle was publicly discussed in 2011, Langner spoke up again from his retirement and was emphatically publicly committed to the preservation of the building. In 2017 the City Council of Mannheim determined that demolishing this unique monument is no longer conceivable.

From 1979 to 1989 Langner and his partners erected the extension building opposite the Mannheim Reiss Museum in square D 5 , which presents the collections of archeology, non-European cultures and natural history, later named the Museum of World Cultures . This building was the winner of the second competition, after the first competition for the property on B 4 had already been announced in 1964, but was no longer implemented.

In 1988 Langner and his planning and building contractor team for the International Institute for Vocational Education and Training in Mannheim were honored again with the Hugo Häring Prize.

Langner was a member of the Association of German Architects . Between 1966 and 2016 he wrote numerous specialist articles for the architecture magazines Deutsche Bauzeitung , Baumeister , Bauwelt and der architekt . Together with his partners, he published two work reports .

Joachim Langner left the architectural partnership with Prof. Carlfried Mutschler, Christine Mäurer and Ludwig Schwöbel in 1993 for reasons of age .

Awards (selection)

  • 1978: Hugo Häring Prize for the Multihalle (with Carlfried Mutschler, Frei Otto and the client)
  • 1978: Grand BDA Prize
  • 1988: Hugo Häring Prize for the International Institute for Vocational Education and Training, Mannheim (with Carlfried Mutschler and the client)
  • Numerous awards for good buildings from the BDA, timber construction awards and awards from the German Plumbing

Success in competitions (with his partners)

  • 1979: 1st prize in the competition for the Reissmuseum in Mannheim
  • 1979: 1st prize in the competition for the Herzogenried indoor sports pool in Mannheim
  • 1980: 1st prize in the competition for the Wilhelm Busch School
  • 1982: 2nd prize in the competition for the Bundespostmuseum in Frankfurt am Main 
  • 1981: 1st prize at the Bab al Sheikh Zone2 / 2 competition in Baghdad / Iraq
  • 1986: 1st prize in the competition for the Mannheim townhouse 

Fonts (selection)

  • Carlfried Mutschler and Partner. Buildings and designs. Work report, Karl Krämer, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-7828-1437-1 .
  • Carlfried Mutschler and Partner. Buildings and drafts 2. Work report 2, Karl Krämer, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-7828-1610-2 .
  • Fear of contact . In: Walter Ehlers, Gernot Feldhusen and Carl Steckeweh (eds.): CAD: Architecture automatically? , Volume 76 of Bauwelt Fundamente , Birkhäuser, 1986, ISBN 3-0356-0110-0 , pp. 76-88.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary notice: Joachim Langner. In: Die Rheinpfalz , December 9, 2017, trauer.rheinpfalz.de, accessed on December 11, 2017.
  2. ↑ Carlfried Mutschler + Partner (1971–1993). In: Southwest German Archive for Architecture and Civil Engineering (saai), January 19, 2016, accessed on November 2, 2017.
  3. ^ A b Peter W. Ragge: Architect wants to keep the Multihalle. ( Memento from June 15, 2016 in the Internet Archive ). In: Mannheimer Morgen , February 21, 2011.
  4. ↑ a b Laureate of the Hugo Häring Prize. ( Memento of the original from January 23, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / bda-bawue.de archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Baden-Württemberg State Association of the Association of German Architects, bda-bawue.de , accessed on March 22, 2017.
  5. ^ Andreas Schenk, Architekturführer Mannheim , Reimer, Berlin 1999, ISBN 978-3-496-01201-6 , in Google books .
  6. ↑ Schenk, Architekturführer Mannheim , 1999, p. 27.
  7. ↑ Joachim Langner in the British Architectural Library Catalog of RIBA , riba.sirsidynix.net.uk , accessed on March 22, 2017, (search words : Langner, Joachim).
  8. ^ Second prize: Bundespostmuseum / Museum for Communication in Frankfurt (1982–1990). In: Elisabeth Spieker, dissertation from the University of Stuttgart , chap. 5, p. 3, image 4, (PDF; 74 p., 3.3 MB), full text , accessed on November 2, 2017.
  9. ↑ Peter W. Ragge: Citizen service in the town hall? ( Memento from November 2, 2017 in the web archive archive.today ). In: Mannheimer Morgen , November 17, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Langner, Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH October 1, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Tarnowitz (Upper Silesia), today Tarnowskie Góry (Poland)
DATE OF DEATH 1st December 2017
Place of death Ludwigshafen