Moritz Holfelder
Moritz Holfelder (born November 7, 1958 in Aschaffenburg ) is a German cultural journalist - specializing in film criticism and architecture - as well as non-fiction author and photographer .
Life
Moritz Holfelder studied communication sciences , art history and German at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . Since 1985 he has been working as a culture journalist, film and architecture critic, mainly for BR ( Bayern 2 and B5 currently ), but also for SWR , SR, NDR and Deutschlandfunk Kultur . As part of his work, he produced 50-minute radio features about Eva Mattes , Werner Herzog , Dominik Graf , Michael Ballhaus , John Berger , Helmut Dietl and Peter Zumthor .
In addition, Holfelder has made a name for himself as an author of books on cultural history. Together with the British writer and painter John Berger, he developed a cultural history of motorcycling. In addition, he dealt with the history of the East Berlin Palace of the Republic and wrote a biography about the cult director Werner Herzog .
Together with the Berlin publishers DOM Publishers , Holfelder developed a series of audio books on architecture in 2011 . For this there was the German Audio Book Prize 2012 in the category “Best Publishing Achievement”. The jury statement states: “With the portraits of the star architects Zumthor, Hadid and Libeskind, the author succeeds in the seemingly impossible: he makes architecture audible.” Laura Weißmüller wrote in the Süddeutsche Zeitung: “The buildings are described so precisely, that the listener thinks he is accompanying the speaker on his tour of the architecture, goes down the stairs with him, turns around, then walks on and slowly gets a feel for the building. ”Holfelder also met the Brazilian for one of his audio books Architect Oscar Niemeyer at the age of 104 in his office in Rio de Janeiro.
Holfelder has also been involved in photography since his youth; he has recently designed two solo exhibitions and published the photo book “vagues wellen waves”. Moritz Holfelder is the nephew of the lighting designer Ingo Maurer , through whom he realized a radio feature in 2010.
Moritz Holfelder works and lives alternately in Munich and Berlin .
Works
Non-fiction
- The book from the beach chair . A cultural history of the German seaside industry, Husum, 2nd edition 2011, ISBN 978-3-88042-767-9
- The book about the motorcycle . A cultural history on two wheels, Husum 1998, ISBN 978-3-88042-862-1
- Small philosophy of passions . Riding a motorcycle, Munich 2000, ISBN 978-3423342339
- Palace of the Republic . Rise and fall of a symbolic building, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-86153-491-4
- Werner Herzog: The Biography , Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3784433035
- Our looted property. A pamphlet on the colonial debate , Ch. Links, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-96289-058-2 .
Audio books
- Peter Zumthor. The magic of the real , Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3869221045
- Daniel Libeskind. Seismograph of historical tremors , Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3869221236
- Zaha Hadid. The flow of spaces , Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3869221229
- GRAFT architects. Don't be so German! , Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3869221991
- Oscar Niemeyer. Sculptures made of concrete , Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3869222363
- David Chipperfield. Between Nefertiti and Kafka, between empathy and discovery , Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3869223339
- Le Corbusier. Between vision and function - the architect of the century , Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3869224046
- Rem Koolhaas. Expanding the horizon - the thinker and architect , Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3869225425
Art books
- Moritz Holfelder and Bernhard Jott Keller: How the rivers used to be (texts and drawings), Steingaden 2014, ISBN 978-3922950608
- Moritz Holfelder: vagues wellen waves (photos and text), Steingaden 2018, ISBN 978-3922950622
- Peter Haimerl, Sandra Hofmeister, Edward Beierle, Jutta Görlich, Moritz Holfelder: Schedlberg (DETAIL Special), Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3955534721
- Peter Haimerl, Sandra Hofmeister, Edward Beierle, Jutta Görlich, Moritz Holfelder: Blaibach (DETAIL Special), Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3955534745
Exhibitions
- 2018: La Mer respire , Exposition de l'été, Musée Laduz, Burgundy
- 2019: atlantik pazifik isar , Die Färberei, Munich
Awards
- 2012 German audio book award for "Architecture to Hear: Zumthor / Libeskind / Hadid"
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.moritzholfelder.de/neu/biografie/
- ↑ https://www.christoph-links-verlag.de/index.cfm?view=6&autoren_id=426
- ↑ https://www.zeit.de/2012/36/Filmemacher-Werner-Herzog-Biografie
- ↑ https://www.deutscher-hoerbuchpreis.de/archiv/dhp-2012/detailansicht/preistraeger/?hbuid=208
- ↑ Laura Weißmüller: In the letter pictures, category DAS HÖRBUCH, Süddeutsche Zeitung of February 28, 2012
- ↑ https://dom-publishers.com/products/oscar-niemeyer
- ↑ https://www.br.de/radio/bayern2/programmkalender/ausrichtung-1917054.html
- ↑ http://laduz.com/la-mer-respire-exposition-photo/
- ↑ https://www.sueddeutsche.de/muenchen/ausstellung-bilder-eines-nachbarn-1.4349434
- ↑ https://www.deutscher-hoerbuchpreis.de/archiv/dhp-2012/detailansicht/preistraeger/?hbuid=208
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Holfelder, Moritz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German cultural journalist, non-fiction author and photographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 7, 1958 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Aschaffenburg |