Klaus Kürvers

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Klaus Kürvers, portrayed by Jonas Geist, 1983

Klaus Kürvers (* 1950 in Essen ) is a German architect , building historian, author and musician. He mainly publishes on the architectural and cultural history of Berlin and, as a bass player, belongs to the Berlin real-time music scene.

Kürvers learned double bass a . a. with Peter Trunk . He was a member of the Essen Youth Symphony Orchestra and has played free jazz since 1967 . From 1969 to 1971 he and Rainer Brüninghaus belonged to the jazz rock band Eiliff before he stopped his musical activities for the time being.

After studying in Cologne and Berlin (musicology, philosophy, sociology and architecture), he has been working as a building historian in Berlin since 1978, initially at the University of the Arts . Kürvers has been self-employed since 1997.

The three-volume standard work Das Berliner Mietshaus (1740–1989) was created together with Jonas Geist . He also presented architectural studies (for example on Villa Schöningen or the urban development of Berlin) as well as work on the work of the architects Hans Scharoun , Albert Speer and the bassist Peter Kowald . In 1996 he did his doctorate at the Berlin University of the Arts on Scharoun's work, in particular the Schminke house . He also carried out a series of detailed studies on selected labyrinths in Sweden, Spain, India and Berlin.

Since 2006 he has been working as a bassist again and has played with numerous musicians, including a. with Tristan Honsinger , Tobias Delius , Willi Kellers , Ignaz Schick and Els Vandeweyer . Since 2010 CD releases have been made, among others with the Zeitkratzer group ( Grand Orchestra ), the double bass quartet Sequoia and the violinist Thea Farhadian.

Fonts

  • The Berlin apartment building. Vol. 1. 1740-1862. Prestel, Munich 1980, ISBN 3-7913-0524-7 (with Jonas Geist)
  • The Berlin apartment building. Vol. 2, 1862-1945. Prestel, Munich 1984, ISBN 3-7913-0696-0 (with Jonas Geist)
  • The Berlin apartment building. Vol. 3. 1945–1989. Prestel, Munich 1989, ISBN 3-7913-0719-3 (with Jonas Geist)
  • Jonas Geist, Klaus Kürvers, Dieter Rausch: Hans Scharoun. Chronicle of life and work. Academy of the Arts, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-88331-974-0 .
  • Decryption of an image. The Landhaus Schminke by Hans Scharoun. Dissertation, Berlin 1996.
  • Klaus Kürvers, Bernt Roder, Bettina Tacke: Hops & Malt. History and perspectives of the brewery locations in the north-east of Berlin. Museum Association Pankow, Berlin 2005.
  • Peter Kowald Discography. Potsdam, Jazzwerkstatt 2014 (in 4-CD box).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Klaus Kürvers. In: arch INFORM .
  2. ↑ a b short portrait
personal data
SURNAME Kürvers, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect, author and musician
DATE OF BIRTH 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH eat