Michael S. Cullen

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Michael S. Cullen (born June 9, 1939 in New York City , USA ) is an American historian, journalist and publicist. He lives in Berlin.

Life

After studying Russian language and literature (Bachelor of Arts at Brooklyn College in 1962), Cullen came to Germany in 1962 and has lived in Berlin since 1964. In 1984 he finished his studies in history at the Free University of Berlin .

He has published numerous publications on Berlin topics and is involved in several projects with a focus on building history. He is particularly interested in the Reichstag building in Berlin. In 1971 he was the source of ideas for the " Wrapped Reichstag " project. At that time he sent a postcard with the picture of the Reichstag to Christo and Jeanne-Claude and was able to interest them in the project. However, it should take until June 1995 before the Reichstag was actually covered.

Honors

Publications

  • Kenneth Noland : Paintings 1969-1970 , exhibition catalog 1972, Galerie Mikro, Berlin
  • Leipziger Straße Drei - A Building Biography , in: Mendelssohn Studies, Berlin 1982
  • The Reichstag - parliament, monument, symbol , Berlin 1983
  • Christo - The Reichstag (with Wolfgang Volz ), Frankfurt / Main 1984
  • The minefield of taste: The artist's perfidious politician trap - Stuck's picture 'The Hunt for Happiness' in the Reichstag Berlin 1899, in: Museum Villa Stuck (ed.) Franz von Stuck 1963–1928, Munich 1984
  • Jews as collectors and patrons , in: Julius H. Schoeps (ed.) Jews as carriers of bourgeois culture in Germany, Burg 1989
  • Berlin as the Prussian capital and young imperial city in the New York Times , in: Gerhard Brunn, Jürgen Reulecke, Berlin, Views of the German Metropolis, Essen 1989
  • The Brandenburg Gate (with Uwe Kieling), Berlin 1990
    • The Brandenburg Gate, a German symbol , (with Uwe Kieling), Berlin 1999
  • Capital and seat of government , in: Michael Mönninger (ed.) Das Neue Berlin, Frankfurt 1991
  • Platz der Republik, from the parade ground to the government district , Berlin 1992
  • Dem Deutschen Volke, Das Reichstag building in Berlin , in: Ingeborg Flagge, Wolfgang Jean Stock (ed.) Architecture and Democracy -
  • Building for Politics from the American Revolution to the Present, Stuttgart 1992
  • The German Reichstag - History of a Parliament (with Uwe Kieling), Berlin 1992
  • Christo & Jeanne-Claude, The Reichstag for the German People , (with Wolfgang Volz), Bergisch Gladbach 1995
  • Faith, love, hope - From the building history of the Charité , in: Antje Müller-Schubert, Susanne Rehm, Caroline Hake, Sara Harten (eds.) Charité - Photographic tour through a hospital, Berlin 1997
  • Through room, in: Jörg Platz (ed.) Mein Berlin Zimmer, 25th commitments to this city, Frankfurt / Main 1997
  • Where is Hitler? Public remembering and collective forgetting as a stumbling block for culture , Berlin 1999
  • The Reichstag, parliament, monument, symbol , 3rd edition, Berlin 1999
  • The Holocaust Memorial, Documentation of a Debate , Zurich 1999
  • Controversy over symbols, the dome of the Reichstag building , in: Heinrich Wefing (ed.) "Dem Deutschen Volke" - The Bundestag in the Berlin Reichstag building, Bonn 1999
  • Megatechnology with nano-conscience - the "decent" company Topf & Sons in Erfurt , in: Aleida Assmann , Frank Hiddemann, Eckhard Schwarzenberg (ed.) Company Topf & Sons - manufacturer of the ovens for Auschwitz, a factory site as a place of remembrance ?, Frankfurt / Main 2002
  • The German People - The History of the Berlin Bronze Caster Loevy (Ed. M. Hellmuth Braun, Michael Dorrmann), Berlin-Cologne 2003
  • Le Reichstag - au coeur des tensions de l'histoire allemande , Berlin 2004
  • Brief history of the Reichstag building in Berlin , in: Edmund Budrich (ed.) The German Parliament, 5th edition, Opladen 2009

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information from the Office of the Federal President
personal data
SURNAME Cullen, Michael S.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American historian, publicist, journalist
DATE OF BIRTH June 9, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City