Liselotte Ungers

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Liselotte Ungers (birth name Gabler; born December 29, 1925 in Wuppertal ; † July 6, 2010 ) was a German author, book collector and business graduate.

Life

Liselotte Gabler came from the wealthy family of a building contractor from Wuppertal and studied business administration at the University of Cologne , which she graduated with a degree in business administration.

Here she met the architect Oswald Mathias Ungers in 1956 , whom she married that same year. The couple had three children, Simon (1957-2006), who became an architect, Sybille (* 1960) and the later art historian and gallery owner Sophie Ungers (* 1962). Liselotte Ungers acted as authorized signatory of Prof. OMUngers GmbH and owner of all private houses of the family.

The family lived in Berlin from 1963 to 1968, then for ten years in New York State in the United States. Back in the Federal Republic, further stations were Frankfurt am Main (1976) and Karlsruhe (1983). The center of life was the house built in the first few years in Cologne-Müngersdorf.

Since the 1970s, with interruptions into old age, Liselotte Ungers has published in the areas of cultural and settlement history as well as architecture.

She was also an avid book collector; Together with her husband, she has built up one of the largest private collections on architecture and architectural theory since the 1950s - over 50 years. This became the basis of the UAA, the Unger Archive for Architectural Science, which the couple established as a foundation in 1990.

Liselotte Ungers died in 2010 and was buried in the Melaten cemetery in Cologne .

Works

  • with Oswald Mathias Ungers: Communes in the New World. 1740-1971 . Kiepenheuer and Witsch, Cologne 1972, ISBN 3-462-00858-7 .
  • The return of the red man. Indians in the USA . Kiepenheuer and Witsch, Cologne 1974, ISBN 3-462-01009-3 .
  • The search for a new form of living. Settlements from the twenties then and now . Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1983, ISBN 3-421-02804-4 .
  • About architects. Life, Work & Theory . DuMont-Literatur-und-Kunst-Verlag, Cologne 2002, ISBN 3-8321-7218-1 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d Anton Bausinger, Kurt Schlechtriemen: "One thing the architect forgot ..." In: Bürgererverein Köln-Müngersdorf eV (Ed.): Blickpunkt Müngersdorf . No. 9 (2006/2007) , 2007, pp. 6–11 ( digitized at buergerverein-koeln-muengersdorf.de [PDF]).
  2. ^ A b Oswald Mathias Ungers. In: knerger.de. Retrieved July 26, 2019 (photo of the shared tombstone on Melaten).
  3. ^ Wolfgang Pehnt: House Belvederestrasse 60, Cologne-Müngersdorf . In: Opus 80 Oswald Mathias Ungers, house Belvederestrasse 60, Cologne-Müngersdorf . Edition Axel Menges, Stuttgart, London 2016, ISBN 978-3-932565-80-9 , pp. 12 .
  4. ↑ a b The donors. In: ungersarchiv.de. Retrieved July 26, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Ungers, Sophia. In: d-nb.info. Retrieved July 26, 2019 .
  6. ↑ a b Andreas Denk: Sophia Ungers in conversation with Andreas Denk. A house for books. In: derarchitektbda.de. December 17, 2012, accessed July 26, 2019 .
  7. ^ Foundation. In: www.ungersarchiv.de. Retrieved July 26, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Ungers, Liselotte
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gabler, Liselotte (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author, book collector and business graduate
DATE OF BIRTH December 29, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Wuppertal
DATE OF DEATH July 6, 2010