Michael Mönninger

Michael Mönninger (born July 7, 1958 in Paderborn ) is a German journalist , architecture critic and university professor.

Life

Mönninger graduated from the Carl-Goerdeler-Gymnasium in Paderborn in 1977 . He then studied school music and piano at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Frankfurt am Main until 1978 , and from 1979 to 1980 completed a traineeship at the publishing house Syndikat / Europäische Verlagsanstalt, also in Frankfurt. He then studied German literature, philosophy, sociology and art history from 1980 to 1985 at the University of Frankfurt . The topic of his master's thesis was “Postmodernism as Resemantization. Basics of a semiology of non-linguistic systems of meaning using the example of architecture ”. In 1985 he graduated from the Henri Nannen School of Journalism in Hamburg.

Mönninger worked as a feature editor and architecture critic for several important newspapers and magazines: from 1986 to 1994 he was editor of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , from 1994 to 1995 he was editor of Spiegel . In 1995 he did his doctorate at the State University for Design in Karlsruhe with a thesis on Camillo Sitte .

From 1995 to 1996 he was a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin , where his research topic was current architecture and urban planning theory from a historical perspective. From 1996 to 1999 he was the chief editor and architecture critic of the Berliner Zeitung .

From 1999 to 2000 he represented the “Chair for Theory and History of Architecture” ( Friedrich Achleitner ) at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. From 2001 to 2002 he was again the chief editor of the daily newspaper “ Die Welt ” in Berlin and Brussels. From 2003 to 2007 he was France correspondent for the weekly newspaper “ Die Zeit ” in Paris.

Since 2007 he has been a university professor for the history and theory of building and spatial art at the University of Fine Arts in Braunschweig.

Mönninger was a member of numerous advisory boards and juries and several committees of academic self-government. Until 2014, together with Klaus Semsroth and Christiane Craseman-Collins, he was the editor of the historical-critical six-volume complete edition of the writings and drafts of Camillo Sitte.

Mönninger has been married to the historian Dorothea Hauser since 1994. The couple have two children.

Awards

• 1989 Critics' Prize from the Federal Chamber of Architects
• 1990 scholarship from the Marshall Memorial Fund in the USA
• 1994 PhD scholarship from the HfG Karlsruhe

Publications (selection)

Monographs :

• "New homes as basic cells for a healthy state". Urban and residential construction in post-war modernism. The corporate magazine "Neue Heimat MONTHShefte" 1954-1981. DOM Publishers, Berlin 2018.
• Coop Himmelb (l) au , Complete Works, Taschen, Cologne 2010
• Axel Schultes / Charlotte Frank. Federal Chancellery Berlin . Edition Axel Menges, Stuttgart - London 2002
• Stefan Braunfels - Pinakothek der Moderne . Birkhäuser, Basel-Boston-Berlin 2002
• Urban society . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1999
• From ornament to national work of art - On the theory of art and architecture by Camillo Sitte . Vieweg, Braunschweig-Wiesbaden 1998
• City views: architects, places, houses . Lindinger & Schmid, Regensburg 1997
• Light design . Taschen, Cologne 1993
• Japan design . Taschen, Cologne 1992

editor

• From the social utopia to the urban house. Texts and interviews by Hans Stimmann. DOM Publishers Berlin 2011. (Ed. With Jörn Düwel)
• Between dream and trauma: urban planning concepts of post-war modernism in Europe. DOM Publishers Berlin 2011 (Ed. With Jörn Düwel)
• Camillo Sitte Complete Edition. Writings and Projects Vol. 1 - 6. (Ed. With Klaus Semsroth, Christiane Craseman-Collins), Böhlau, Vienna-Cologne-Weimar 2008-2014
• Last Exit Downtown - cities in danger. Birkhäuser, Basel-Boston-Berlin 1994
• The new Berlin - building history and urban planning of the German capital. Insel, Frankfurt am Main 1991
• Berlin tomorrow - ideas for the heart of a big city. Catalog for the exhibition in Dt. Architecture Museum Frankfurt am Main. Hatje, Stuttgart 1991. (Ed. With VM Lampugnani).

Web links

• Literature by and about Michael Mönninger in the catalog of the German National Library
• Homepage of Mönninger at the University of Braunschweig