Karin Leydecker

Karin Leydecker (née Halter; born January 20, 1954 in Speyer ; † April 27, 2020 in Neustadt an der Weinstrasse ) was a German architecture critic .

Life

Leydecker studied German , art history and Protestant theology in Karlsruhe , Mainz and Heidelberg and received his doctorate in 1988.

Since the late 1970s, Leydecker published reviews as a freelance writer in the heavily male-dominated field. Her texts appeared in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung , in the FAZ , the Deutsches Architektenblatt , the Deutsche Bauzeitung and in the culture chronicles of the Inter Nationes .

She designed exhibitions and catalogs, wrote monographs and cultivated connections to artists such as Norbert Nüssle , the sculptor Vera Röhm and architects such as Heinz Mohl , whose work she accompanied for years.

In 2005, together with Enrico Santifaller, she published an architecture guide that described 60 years of building history in Rhineland-Palatinate . In 2018 she created an exhibition on industrial culture in the Villa Streccius , which showed successful further developments and the decline of architectural and historical heritage, for example of the Pfaff site in Kaiserslautern .

Publications

• Architecture in Art Classes in Secondary School I. P eter Lang, 1988, ISBN 978-3631406465 .
• The Mannheim painter Norbert Nüssle . In: Mannheimer Hefte, 1992, pp. 99-105.
• With André Carion and Jean-Pierre Abraham: Norbert Nüssle. Quimper: Musée des beaux-arts, 1996, ISBN 978-2906739215 , (French).
• Participation: Discoveries: Rhineland-Palatinate Architecture Prize. Building Culture Foundation Rhld.-Pfalz, 1998, ISBN 978-3927517141 .
• Vera Rohm. Lienart 2012, ISBN 978-2359060751 , (French).
• Participation: norm - limit - deviation. Stutz, 2004, ISBN 978-3888492020 .
• With Enrico Santifaller: Architecture Guide Rhineland-Palatinate 1945-2005 . Schnell & Steiner 2005, ISBN 978-3795417598 .
• Participation: Jo. Franzke Architects. Springer, 2006, ISBN 978-3211297629 .
• Participation: Frankfurt shone. In: Jasmin Behrouzi-Rühl u. a. (Ed.): Frankfurt shines . The revitalization of the historic Villa Metzler on the Schaumainkai. Frankfurt am Main 2008, pp. 10-23.
• Participation: Archäopark Vogelherd. In: Peter Cachola Schmal, Christina Gräwe, Yorck Förster (eds.) Deutsches Architektur Jahrbuch / German Architecture Annual 2014/15. Deutsches Architekturmuseum, Frankfurt am Main, and Prestel, Verlag, Munich, 2014; Pp. 116-121, ISBN 978-3-7913-5393-7 .

Web links

• Article by Leydecker in Morgenweb.de
• Obituary in Baunetz

Individual evidence

1. ↑ memorial page of Dr. Karin Leydecker. Accessed May 31, 2020 . 
2. ↑ VITAE AUTHORS. Accessed May 31, 2020 . 
3. ^ Annette Becker, Stefanie Lampe, Lessano Negussie, Peter Cachola Schmal: Fahr Rad !: Recapturing the city . Birkhäuser, 2018, ISBN 978-3-0356-1526-5 ( google.de [accessed May 31, 2020]).
4. ^ BauNetz Media GmbH: Criticism in the best sense of the word. Accessed May 31, 2020 .