Manfred Sack

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Manfred Sack (born April 24, 1928 in Coswig ; † October 4, 2014 in Hamburg ) was one of the most prominent German architecture critics .

Life

Manfred Sack was a student at a national political educational institution . After studying musicology and art history at the Free University of Berlin (doctorate in 1954), Manfred Sack was part of the editorial team of the weekly newspaper Die Zeit from 1959 to 1994 and stayed with it as an author until 2004. He is considered to be "one of the most important architecture critics of the post-war period", who "significantly influenced the public debate about German urban development and the quality of architecture".

In 1971/72 Sack received the Theodor Wolff Prize from the Federal Association of German Newspaper Publishers. In 1976 he won the BDA Prize for Architectural Criticism and in 1980 the German Prize for Monument Protection . He was an honorary doctor of the TU Darmstadt , a member of the Free Academy of Arts in Hamburg and the European Academy of Sciences and Arts in Salzburg.

Publications

  • Architecture in time. Reviews and reports about houses, cities and projects. CJ Bucher, Luzern / Frankfurt am Main 1979, ISBN 978-3-76580289-8 .
  • Lübeck: Where 15,000 live in the memorial. In: Geo-Magazin. Hamburg 1980,2, ISSN  0342-8311 , pp. 112-136. (Informative experience report.)
  • Habitat - street. (= Series of publications of the German National Committee for Monument Protection , Volume 14.) German National Committee for Monument Protection, Bonn 1982, ISBN 978-3-92215301-6 .
  • Simple paradises. Today's wooden houses. With Timm Rautert. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1991, ISBN 978-3-42102834-1 .
  • About the utopia, the good taste and the culture of the client or: How is good architecture created. Association of German Architects BDA in the State of Bremen, Bremen 1994, ISBN 978-3-95216620-8 .
  • Gods and Sheep: About Houses, Cities, Architects - Reviews and Reports. , Birkhäuser, Basel (et al.) 2000, ISBN 978-3-76436141-9 .
  • Temptations of architecture. Critical observations and remarks about houses and cities, squares and gardens . Quart-Verlag, Luzern 2003, ISBN 978-3-907631-22-5 .
  • Sonwik, Flensburg With Rolf Reiner Maria Borchard (photographs), Opus 61. Stuttgart / London 2007, ISBN 978-3-932565-61-8
  • Robert Bosch Hospital, Stuttgart. With Peter Walser (photographer). Edition Axel Menges, Stuttgart / London 2010, ISBN 978-3-93256568-7 .

literature

  • Ulrich Greiner: The gentleman with the fly. On the death of the amiable colleague and great architecture critic Manfred Sack . In: The time . No. 42 , October 9, 2014 ( zeit.de [accessed February 1, 2017]).
  • Jürgen Tietz: Manfred Sack (1928-2014) . In: Deutsche Bauzeitung . No. 11 , 2014 ( db-bauzeitung.de [accessed February 1, 2017]).
  • Obituaries. Manfred Sack, 86 . In: Der Spiegel . No. 42 , 2014 ( spiegel.de [PDF; 154 kB ; accessed on May 10, 2020]).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. Rüdiger Suchsland : "The Napola upbringing helped me in the market economy". Telepolis , December 6, 2009.
  2. ^ Architectural critic Manfred Sack has died. Report to Deutschlandradio Kultur from October 7, 2014 (accessed October 28, 2017).
  3. ↑ Theodor Wolff Prize: Prize winner since 1962. ( Memento of the original from September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Federal Association of German Newspaper Publishers (list of winners in Excel format) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bdzv.de
  4. ↑ honorary doctorate Manfred Sack , tu-darmstadt.de, accessed on February 23, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Sack, Manfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and critic
DATE OF BIRTH April 24, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Coswig
DATE OF DEATH 4th October 2014
Place of death Hamburg