Karin Wilhelm

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Karin Wilhelm (born February 25, 1947 in Zeven ) is a German - Austrian art and architecture historian .

life and work

Karin Wilhelm studied art history , sociology and philosophy in Heidelberg , Munich , Berlin and Marburg an der Lahn. In 1971 she completed her studies with a Magister Artium at the University of Munich with Norbert Huse in Munich. She then received a doctoral scholarship from Tilmann Buddensieg at the Free University of Berlin . In 1981 the doctorate to Dr. phil. at the University of Marburg with Heinrich Klotz . The work “Walter Gropius. Industrial architect ”was published as the first publication by the German Architecture Museum in Frankfurt am Main (DAM).

From then on, her academic work focused on the architecture of the 19th and 20th centuries, which she dealt with in exhibitions and essays against the background of the aesthetics and cultural theory of modernism . Since the 1970s she has participated in several exhibition projects, including in Berlin, London / Architectural Association, Moderna Museet Stockholm and since 2001 in Braunschweig and Düsseldorf, and has given numerous specialist lectures.

In 1991 she accepted a full professorship at the Graz University of Technology , Faculty of Architecture, and became the first female professor at Graz University of Technology, where she taught until 2001. In 2000/2001 she was dean of the Faculty of Architecture at TU Graz. During those years she was visiting professor at the University of Bonn , among others . In 2001 she moved to the TU Braunschweig as a professor for the history and theory of architecture and the city , where she taught in the architecture department until 2011 .

Her research interests include the history of urban studies as a cultural theory in the 19th and 20th centuries, the history of mentality in the FRG using the example of architecture and urban planning after 1945, as well as aspects of the history and theory of modernity ( Bauhaus , post-war architecture and urban development ). Individual studies on these topics are available in many essay volumes. Between 2008 and 2012, their investigations flowed into the research project "Edgar Salin and the List Society's Israel Project: Urban Development (Theory) and Spatial Planning of the 1950s and 1960s as Nation Building", which was part of the funding program of the German Research Foundation (DFG ) was carried out together with Joachim Trezib .

Your scientific achievements were shown in a personal portrait in the exhibition in 2003: where is minerva? - Directions from successful women. Exhibition of the Lower Saxony Ministry for Science and Culture, honored.

Scientific functions

  • 1994–99 Scientific Advisory Board for the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation
  • 1995–99 board member at the House of Architecture in Graz
  • 1998–2001 Vice President of the International City Forum Graz
  • 2001–2003 member of the scientific advisory board of the German Architecture Museum Frankfurt a. M.
  • 1999–2011 member of the editorial board of "The Architect" (BDA)
  • 2008–2015 Chairwoman of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Berlinische Galerie, Berlin
  • Member of the board of trustees "International Building Exhibition Urban Redevelopment Saxony-Anhalt 2010" and appointment to the Braunschweigische Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft (BWG)
  • Member of the Society for Intellectual History, Potsdam
  • 2011 appointment to the Braunschweig Scientific Society
  • Since 2015 (again) member of the German Werkbund Berlin

Publications and Editing

  • Walter Gropius - industrial architect, Wiesbaden / Braunschweig 1983, Vieweg-Verlag, ISBN 3-528-08690-4
  • Portrait of Frei Otto. Architects today, Berlin 1985, Quadriga-Verlag, ISBN 3-88679-119-X
  • with Moshe Barasch, Walter Grab, Julius Posener (Ed.): Utopie heute? End of a human history topos, lectures and discussions. Vienna 1993, Passagen-Verlag, ISBN 3-85165-053-0
  • (Ed.): Art as a revolt? - On the ability of the arts to say no, Giessen 1996, Anabas Verlag, ISBN 3-87038-280-5
  • with Gregor Langenbrinck (ed.): City-Lights. Centers. Peripheries. Regions. Interdisciplinary positions for an urban culture. Vienna 2001, Böhlau Verlag, ISBN 3-205-99392-6
  • Idea and Form, Häuser von / Houses of Szyszkowitz / Kowalski, Berlin / Basel / New York 2003, Birkhäuser Verlag, ISBN 3-7643-6927-2
  • with Detlef Jessen-Klingenberg (ed.): Formations der Stadt. Camillo Sitte read on. Bauwelt-Fundamente 132, Basel / Gütersloh / Berlin 2006, Birkhäuser-Verlag, ISBN 3-7643-7152-8
  • u. a. (Ed.): Law and Freedom. The architect Friedrich Wilhelm Kraemer 1907–1990. Berlin 2007, Jovis-Verlag, ISBN 978-3-939633-17-4
  • with Kerstin Gust (ed.): New cities for a new state. The urban development invention of modern Israel and the reconstruction in the FRG. An approximation. Bielefeld 2013, Transcript-Verlag, ISBN 978-3-8376-2204-1

Articles from 2012 to 2017

  • The importance of the city of Vienna for urban development around 1900. In: H.Bodenschatz / C. Kress (eds.), Cult and Crisis of the Great Plan in Urban Development, Petersberg 2017, pp. 81–88, ISBN 978-3-86568- 861-3
  • Paths to Knowledge. Small consideration of Friedrich Wilhelm Kraemer's spatial concept for the Bibliotheca Augusta, in: U. Knufinke / NHFunke (ed.), Achtung Modern. Architecture between 1960 and 1980, Petersberg 2017, pp. 45–51, ISBN 978-3-73190-344-4
  • From living and other activities. Urban planning and architecture from two decades in Lower Saxony, in: Lavesstiftung (ed.), Aufbruch. Architecture in Lower Saxony 1960 to 1980, Berlin 2017, 17 - 25, ISBN 978-3-86859-471-3
  • Everyday knowledge. The dream of the good life, in: ARCH + magazine for architecture and urbanism, projekt bauhaus, pb issue 2, Architectures of Globalization, 2017, pp. 76–88, ISBN 978-3-93143-544-8
  • "The eye wanders too". The architect Ingeborg Kuhler, in: Frau_Architekt. Women in architecture, Tübingen 2017, pp. 221–225, ISBN 978-3-8030-0829-9
  • "They help to weave the veil": Edgar Salin and the Israel Economic an Sociological Research Project, in: Eliezer Ben-Rafael, Julius H. Schoeps, Yitzhak Sternberg, Olaf Glöckner (Eds.) Handbook of Israel: Major Debates (2 Volumes , Vol. 2), Berlin / Boston 2016, ISBN 978-3-11-035163-7
  • Notes on the reconstruction of a (sham) conflict: The proletarian building exhibition and the German building exhibition in Berlin 1931, in: J. Fezer / Ch. Hiller / A. Nehmer / P. Oswalt, collective for socialist building. Proletarian building exhibition. Housing question, Leipzig 2015, pp. 11-23, ISBN 978-3-95905-047-0
  • Office buildings in Düsseldorf and West Berlin around 1960. The main administrations of Mannesmann and Telefunken, in: A.Lepik / R.Heß, Paul Schneider-Esleben Architect, Ostfildern 2015, pp. 46–49, ISBN 978-3-7757-3998-6
  • “Notes on the reconstruction of a (sham) conflict. The Proletarian Building Exhibition and the German Building Exhibition in Berlin 1931, “(Remarks on the Reconstruction of a (Pseudo-) Conflict. The Proletarian Building Exhibition and the German Building Exhibition in Berlin, 1931) in: J. Fezer, Chr. Hiller, A . Taken, Ph. Oswalt, collective for socialist building. Proletarian Building Exhibition - Housing Issue, House of World Cultures, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-95905-047-0
  • Thinking on the edge: Notes on the critical theory of the Frankfurt School, in: “Tausendundeinetheorie”, Arch + Zeitschrift für Architektur und Städtebau, Winter 2015, ISBN 978-3-931435-31-8
  • (Insights) into an old / new country: Erika Spiegel's study `New Cities for a New State / New Towns in Israel´, in: Margit Bonacker / Johann Jessen, Stadtraum und Stadtgesellschaft-Erika Spiegel zum Ninety, quarterly magazine for urban history, Urban Sociology, Monument Preservation and Urban Development, 42nd year, 4/2015
  • Berlin around 1900 - Where to ?. Spotlights on the founding history of the Berlin BDA, in: BD Landesverband Berlin (ed.), Changing Times - Five Views from 100 Years BDA Berlin, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-00-049704-9
  • "Who's perfect? About the language of architecture ”, in: Ilka Becker / Heike Klippel, Get out of his clothes. Essays on the work of Corinna Schnitt (Ed.), Frankfurt a. M./Basel 2014, ISBN 978-3-86109-198-1
  • "Goodbye to yesterday". The Federal Chancellery and the trace of the federal government, in: Arch + Zeitschrift für Architektur und Städtebau, No. 217, autumn 2014, ISBN 978-3-931435-29-5
  • The teachings of Sarajevo, or approaches to the symbolism of urban murder, in: Science as Passion. Commemorative letter for Elisabeth Katschnig-Fasch. Johannes Moser, Gerlinde Malli u. a., Hrsg., Munich 2013 (special issue Kuckuck, notes on everyday culture), ISBN 978-3-8316-4242-7
  • ZEITGEIST. Architectural thinking in the context of the protest - a review, in: Elina Knorpp, Christopher Oesterreich, Querschnitte - Art, Design, Architecture in View, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-89479-840-6
  • “Courage to self-educate” - The Braunschweiger Hochschulforum by Friedrich Wilhelm Kraemer a space program in times of re-education, in: Olaf Gisbertz (Ed.), Post-War Modern Controversy. Positions of the Present, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-86859-122-4

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Exhibition facts and dreams. 2007, accessed December 13, 2016 .
  2. ↑ The Bauhaus. July 11, 2007, accessed December 13, 2016 .
  3. ^ Architectural tuesday. Lecture series by the University of Cologne. June 14, 2016, accessed December 13, 2016 .
  4. ↑ DFG project on Edgar Salin. Retrieved December 13, 2016 .
  5. ^ Law and Freedom Friedrich Wilhelm Kraemer. Exhibition in Düsseldorf. (No longer available online.) 2008, archived from the original on December 13, 2016 ; accessed on December 13, 2016 . Info: The 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mai-nrw.de
  6. ↑ Lower Saxony Ministry for Science and Culture (ed.): Where is minerva? - Directions from successful women. 2003, ISBN 3-930292-79-3 .
  7. ↑ where is minerva? December 17, 2002, accessed December 13, 2016 .
  8. ^ Karin Wilhelm: Text contribution to the symposium. (PDF) February 5, 2016, accessed December 13, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Wilhelm, Karin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Austrian art and architecture historian
DATE OF BIRTH February 25, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Zeven