Klaus Gallas

Klaus Gallas (born December 8, 1941 in Berlin ) is a German architectural historian , author, publisher and cultural manager . Gallas is the author and editor of numerous books, mainly travel and art guides, and a television author.

Life

Gallas initially trained as a miner ; In 1959 he received the miner's letter in Essen. He completed an apprenticeship as a draftsman, which he finished with his degree in 1962. After attending the engineering school in Essen and Cologne, he received a graduate degree in building construction / architecture in Cologne in 1965. In 1968 he completed the general Abitur on the second educational path at the Cologne College .

From 1968 to 1972 he studied at the LMU Munich (classical archeology, Byzantine art history and Egyptology) and the TU Munich architecture , in 1972 he completed his studies as a graduate engineer in architecture at the TU Munich. At the same time he worked as a freelance writer, from 1970 he was a tour guide for the Orient and the Mediterranean region.

From 1973 to 1975 he was employed as a consultant at the German Foundation for Development Aid. In 1980 he received a scholarship from the DAAD , which he used for a research stay in Crete.

In 1982 Klaus Gallas was awarded a Dr.-Ing. In architectural history at the TU Berlin. PhD.

Gallas has developed series for several publishing houses and worked as a program manager: From 1990 to 1996 he was program manager for "Edition Erde" at BW-Verlag. Since 1997 he has created the new travel guide series “ReiseFalter”, “KulturFalter” and “EventsFalter”, of which around 120 titles have been published so far, some of which have been translated into several foreign languages (including English, Italian, French and Spanish). Gallas wrote numerous cultural documentaries for ARD, ZDF, WDR and BR.

From 1999 Gallas advised cities, municipalities and cultural organizers on cultural management. Gallas lived in Munich until March 2004, and in 2004 he moved to Weimar . Since April 2008 he has been chairman of the “Cultural Forum of Social Democracy” in Thuringia . In 2008 Klaus Gallas founded the “West Östlicher Diwan Festival Weimar” (WÖD) as a non-profit company. In 2018, four concerts with artists from Russia, South Korea, Iran, Armenia and Syria took place in Erfurt, Jena and Weimar to mark the 10th anniversary of the WÖD. The aim of the gGmbH is intercultural dialogue with countries in the Islamic world. Under the patronage of then Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier , WÖD organized the first Iran Festival in 2009 with concerts and readings in Shiraz and Weimar. In 2010, Hafez Remembrance Day (October 12th) was included in the “official list of UNESCO projects for the International Year for Bringing Cultures closer” on the initiative of Gallas in April 2010 . In the same year, the friendship between Weimar and Shiraz was also founded on his initiative. Since then, Weimar has celebrated Hafiz Memorial Day every year with events at the Goethe Hafis Memorial in Weimar. A concert tour to Morocco followed in 2011, and in 2011 the WÖD gave concerts in Shiraz and Tehran .

Fonts (selection)

Munich. From the Guelph foundation of Henry the Lion to the present: art, culture, history. DuMont, Cologne, 1979, ISBN 3-7701-1094-3 ( DuMont documents: DuMont art travel guide ).
Middle and late Byzantine sacred architecture of the island of Crete. Attempt of a typology of the Cretan churches of the 10th to 17th centuries. Berlin 1983 (= dissertation)
with Klaus Wessel , Manolis Borboudakis: Byzantinisches Kreta. Hirmer, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-7774-3240-7 .
Sicily - an island between east and west. DuMont Buchverlag, Cologne 1986 (9th edition), ISBN 3-7701-0818-3 .
Sicily. Edition Erde in BW Verlag, Nuremberg 1992, ISBN 3-8214-6518-2 .
Crete. From the beginnings of Europe to Crete-Venetian art . DuMont, Cologne 1995 (8th edition), ISBN 3-7701-1729-8 .
Athens and Attica. Center of the ancient world. Belser Verlag, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-7630-2262-7 .
Orient in upheaval. The Arab Spring and its aftermath. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 2014, ISBN 978-3-95462-308-2

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personal data
SURNAME	Gallas, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German architectural historian, author, publisher and cultural manager
DATE OF BIRTH	December 8, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berlin