Karin Berkemann

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Karin Gisela Berkemann (* 1972 ) is a German art historian , Protestant theologian and non-fiction author . Her main focus is on church architecture after 1945.

Life

Karin Gisela Berkemann has been working as a graduate theologian and art historian MA since 2002 in the mediation of church and art. In 2006 she carried out the first study on spiritual tourism for the state of Saxony-Anhalt and curated the church building exhibition Architecture of Tomorrow in 2007 for the Hamburg Monument Protection Office ! From 2008 to 2010 Berkemann worked as a scientific trainee / employee for the State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen , completed the advanced training "Architect in Monument Preservation" (Fulda) in 2010 and received his doctorate in 2012 on Frankfurt's post-war churches.

From 2010 to 2018 she inventoried modern architecture for the State Office for Monument Preservation Hesse. From 2015 to 2018 she was involved as an online editor for the Strasse der Moderne project , for which she also curated the church building exhibition Forever in collaboration with the Mainz Cathedral Museum, with photos by Marcel Schawe . Berkemann has been working at the Theological Faculty of the University of Greifswald since 2013: as a curator at the Gustaf Dalman Institute , since 2014 with a teaching position, in 2016/17 as a substitute for the junior professorship in Jewish literature and culture . She has been co- editing the online magazine moderneREGIONAL since 2014 . For this she received in 2018 - with Daniel Bartetzko and C. Julius Reinsberg - the German Prize for Monument Protection (Internet Prize category). In the same year she curated the touring exhibition märklinMODERNE with Daniel Bartetzko , which started at the German Architecture Museum .

Publications (selection)

  • Spiritual gas stations. Travel to Christian Destinations. Edited with Christian Antz . Herder Verlag, Freiburg / Br. 2013, 978-3-451-31088-1 (2nd updated new edition 2015, ISBN 978-3-451-34749-8 ).
  • Post-war churches in Frankfurt am Main (1945-76). ( Monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany; cultural monuments in Hesse. ) Theiss, Stuttgart 2013, ISBN 978-3-8062-2812-0 , [zugl. Diss., Neuendettelsau, 2012].
  • Fairy tales, flies, drawing chalk. The hobbies of the Hessian preacher Philipp Hoffmeister (1804-74). Edited by the Friends of the Culture and Social Center Klosterkirche Nordshausen e. V., Jonas Verlag, Marburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-89445-474-6
  • “Tomorrow's architecture!” Hamburg's post-war churches. Exhibition catalog, Hamburg Monument Protection Office and Free Academy of the Arts Hamburg, ed. from the cultural authority / monument protection office Hamburg. Dölling and Galitz Verlag, Munich / Hamburg 2007.
  • Spiritual tourism in Saxony-Anhalt. Analysis of potential and recommendations for action for a special form of travel (= Tourism Studies Saxony-Anhalt. 19.) Published by the Ministry of Economics and Labor of the State of Saxony-Anhalt / Tourism Department. Magdeburg / Lutherstadt Wittenberg 2006.
  • Guess! 20th century churches. Edited with Walter Zahner. Exhibition catalog. German Society for Christian Art, Munich, in conjunction with the EKD Institute for Church Building and Church Art of the Present at the Philipps University in Marburg and the German Liturgical Institute. Munich / Marburg / Trier 2007.

Curated exhibitions (selection)

K = exhibition catalog

  • märklinMODERNE. From building to kit and back , traveling exhibition, German Architecture Museum Frankfurt am Main / Architekturgalerie am Weißenhof, since 2018 (K)
  • In search of the Holy Land. German theologians explore Palestine , traveling exhibition, Gustaf Dalman Institute Greifswald, 2015 to 2016
  • Tomorrow's architecture. Hamburg's post-war churches . Free Academy of Arts in Hamburg in cooperation with the Hamburg Monument Protection Office , 2007 (K)
  • Guess! Churches of the 20th Century , traveling exhibition, German Society for Christian Art, 2007 to 2010 (K)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See the author's vita on the Herder-Verlag website. Access date: May 22, 2017.
  2. ↑ See reference to the review in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung on the published promotion on perlentaucher.de. Access date: May 22, 2017.
  3. ↑ See the homepage of the Greifswald Gustaf Dalman Institute , access date: October 16, 2018.
  4. ↑ Katharina Cichosch: German predilection for model making: avant-garde in the hobby room. In: Spiegel Online . July 2, 2018, accessed October 18, 2018 .
  5. ^ German Architecture Museum Frankfurt am Main
  6. ↑ iwd - Science Information Service. December 22, 2014, accessed May 25, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Artbook on "In Search of the Holy Land". 2015, accessed May 25, 2017 .
  8. ^ Architecture of Tomorrow , Free Academy of the Arts in Hamburg
  9. ^ Press service of the Episcopal Press Office of the Diocese of Trier, June 19, 2007
  10. ↑ Duisburg. Discussion about churches , rp-online, March 25, 2007
personal data
SURNAME Berkemann, Karin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Berkemann, Karin Gisela (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian, Protestant theologian and non-fiction author
DATE OF BIRTH 1972