Katja Piesker

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Katja Piesker (* 1977 in Ueckermünde ) is a German building researcher .

Katja Piesker studied architecture at the Bauhaus University Weimar and the TU Prague between 1996 and 2002 , which she completed with a diploma. From 2003 to 2010 she worked as a research assistant in the Department of Building and Urban History at the University of Hanover . She was also 2008 work The ancient theater of Patara / Turkey doctorate . In the following year, she was awarded the travel grant of the German Archaeological Institute for her work. From 2010 to 2013, Piesker was a fellow of the Istanbul Department of the German Archaeological Institute (DAI). After returning to Germany, she did research as a research fellow from the Gerda Henkel Foundation and was a research assistant at the Institute for Monument Preservation and Building Research at ETH Zurich in 2013/14 . In February 2016, Piesker became a research assistant at the architecture department of the German Archaeological Institute. In May 2017, at the annual meeting of the DAI's central management, she was elected as the second director of the DAI's Istanbul department, succeeding Martin Bachmann , who died surprisingly the previous year . Since 2019 she has been the head of the architecture department and thus the second director of the DAI headquarters.

Katja Piesker is interested in the entire history of architecture, from the first noteworthy buildings around 10,000 BC. At Göbekli Tepe to modern urban planning. If there is no time limit, the spatial focus is clearly on the area of ​​today's Turkey . She devoted special research to the Attius Philippus Wall and the Temple of Dionysus in Side and the Patara Theater .

Fonts (selection)

  • with Joachim Ganzert : The Patara Theater. Results of the research from 2004 to 2008 (= contributions to the history of architecture and culture, volume 7; Patara, volume 2.2), Ege Yayınları, Istanbul 2012, ISBN 978-605-5607-98-2 . [Dissertation]
  • Editor: Economy as a power base. Contributions to the reconstruction of premodern economic systems in Anatolia. (= Byzas, Volume 22), Ege Yayınları, Istanbul 2016, ISBN 978-605-968-030-1 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ordinary annual meeting of the Headquarters 2017 , May 19, 2017.
  2. ^ Ordinary annual meeting of the central management from 15. – 16. May 2019 , May 16, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Piesker, Katja
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German building researcher
DATE OF BIRTH 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Ueckermünde