Reiner Zittlau

Reiner Zittlau, 2018

Reiner Zittlau (* 1956 in Tübingen ) is a German art historian and monument conservator . Since 1999 he has headed the Department of Building and Art Preservation in the Lower Saxony State Office for Monument Preservation in Hanover .

Act

Education and employment

Reiner Zittlau studied art history , archeology , history and folklore in Munich , Freiburg im Breisgau and Bamberg . In 1982 he obtained his master's degree and in 1985 received a graduate scholarship from the Otto Friedrich University in Bamberg , where he did his doctorate in 1988 under Robert Suckale on the architectural copy of the Holy Sepulcher around 1500 and the artistic design of the Way of the Cross . He gained his first professional experience from 1978 in teaching at universities and in the archeology of late antiquity and the Middle Ages in Syria and Franconia . From 1978 to 1987 he was a freelancer at the University of Munich and the University of Bamberg, the German Archaeological Institute and the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation .

From 1988 Zittlau was employed by the State Monuments Office in Berlin , where he completed the list of monuments for the whole of Berlin. In Berlin he taught at the Humboldt University and the Berlin Administrative Academy . In 1996 Reiner Zittlau went to Stuttgart , where he was in charge of the state- wide revision of the list of monuments in the Baden-Württemberg State Monuments Office . This was followed in 1999 by the management of the Department of Building and Art Monument Preservation at the Lower Saxony State Office for Monument Preservation in Hanover. There he was also deputy head of office from 2006 to 2018, and acting president from October 2008 to April 2009. As such, he gave the impetus for the preservation of the plenary hall building of the Lower Saxony state parliament from 1957 to 1962 by Dieter Oesterlen . From 2005 to 2019 Zittlau was also the ICOMOS monitoring officer for the UNESCO World Heritage Lübeck old town .

Focus of work

In his monument preservation activities, Zittlau supervised further education events and wrote guidelines for local preservationists, architects and craftsmen. He was active nationwide in working groups on inventory and practical monument preservation, conceived conferences and set the course for the digitization of specialist information. He was also responsible for specialist publications, in particular on the monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany and the Lower Saxony World Heritage Sites . He had lectureships at universities, coordinated research projects and reviewed theses on monument conservation topics. In 2019 he curated the traveling exhibition "On the way to the Bauhaus - The awakening of modernity in Lower Saxony" for the 100th anniversary of the Bauhaus .

Conservation concerns

In his journalistic activities, Zittlau dealt with evaluation standards for architectural monuments in order to develop differentiated maintenance issues and appropriate maintenance measures. To this end, he raised art-historical questions about quality and style, technology and design, as well as innovation and impact. He spoke several times on controversial border issues of the preservation of monuments, such as dealing with the mass of monuments, memorial sites with testimonies of totalitarian regimes and current architectural developments in Germany.

Publications (selection)

• Holy Sepulcher Chapel and Stations of the Cross. A building project in Nuremberg around 1500 (= Nuremberg workpieces for city and state history, Volume 49). Nuremberg 1992 (= dissertation).
• The digital mapping of architectural monuments in: Baukammer Berlin , Issue 3 (Thematic Issue Monument Preservation), 1992, p. 5f.
• Berliner Eisenbrücken , in: Baukammer Berlin , Issue 3 (Thematic Issue Monument Preservation), 1992, pp. 7-18.
• Bundled energy - power plants of the 20s and 30s in Berlin , in: Städtebau und Staatsbau im 20. Jahrhundert , Munich, Berlin, New York, 1995, pp. 55–76.
• In competition with time, reflections on the topography of monuments in Berlin , in: Preservation of monuments after the fall of the Berlin Wall, an interim balance sheet (Articles on Preservation of Monuments in Berlin, Volume 10), Berlin 1997, pp. 28–31.
• “The ghosts we called” - Are we overwhelmed by the mass of monuments? in: Workbook 4 of the State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen, Stuttgart, 2003, pp. 67–73.
• Historical cultural landscapes as a field of work for the preservation of monuments in: Exhibition catalog ZeitSchichten, Recognize and Preserve - Preservation of Monuments in Germany , Munich, Berlin, 2005, pp. 200–205.
• About the need to differentiate monument values ​​at www.kunsttexte.de, No. 2, 2005, (Symposium Reflecting on Monument Preservation, Part 4, Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences), ( online ).
• To understand the collegiate church in Königslutter as an imperial cathedral , in: Reports on the preservation of monuments in Lower Saxony , 1/2011, pp. 8-11.
• "UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Lower Saxony" , in: 5th Forum of the Network Building Culture in Lower Saxony , 2011 ( online , pdf)
• with Wolfgang Kimpflinger, Wolfgang Neß : The Fagus factory in Alfeld as a UNESCO World Heritage Site , CW Niemeyer Buchverlage , Hameln, 2011
• The Bergen-Belsen Memorial from the point of view of the preservation of monuments in: Unter der Grasnarbe , workbooks on preservation of monuments in Lower Saxony, vol. 45, Petersberg, 2015, pp. 68-81. ( Online , pdf)
• Old and new perspectives on the Hildesheim World Heritage monuments , in: Reports on the preservation of monuments in Lower Saxony , 1/2016, pp. 2–7.
• Principles, procedures, evaluation standards for the preservation of buildings and art monuments in Lower Saxony , 2017 ( online )
• Evidence of urban repair as a counter-movement to the modern city in: Monument preservation as cultural practice. Between reality and aspiration, documentation of the VdL annual conference , (= workbooks on the preservation of monuments in Lower Saxony, vol. 48), Hameln, 2018, pp. 32–34.
• New buildings as monuments. Extension of the time limit to the present in: Monument preservation as a cultural practice. Between reality and claim, documentation of the VdL annual conference (= workbooks on the preservation of monuments in Lower Saxony, vol. 48), Hameln, 2018, p. 62f.
• Architecture and urban architecture at the cutting edge. Potential for the register of monuments in: Preservation of monuments as a cultural practice. Between reality and aspiration, documentation of the VdL annual conference (= workbooks on monument preservation in Lower Saxony, vol. 48), Hameln, 2018, pp. 74–81.
• On the way to the Bauhaus - The awakening of modernity in Lower Saxony in: Reports on the preservation of monuments in Lower Saxony , 1/2019, pp. 50–53.
• Design advisory board and ICOMOS monitoring in Lübeck in: 15 Years World Heritage and Design Advisory Board 2003-2018, Lübeck plans and builds , issue 114, 2019, p. 105.

Web links

• Short vita in: Under the turf. Design of open spaces in Lower Saxony during the Nazi dictatorship as a monument preservation theme , Hanover conference, 26. – 29. March 2014, p. 111 (pdf)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Personnel. Dr. Reiner Zittlau. Inventory unit. (pdf, 1 MB)
2. ↑ Monument conservator Reiner Zittlau advises saving the plenary hall from the wrecking ball as a historical testimony in: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung of November 28, 2008.
3. ↑ Lübeck is the top league of the world heritage in the Lübeck Old Town newspaper from May 2012 (PDF, 430 kB)
4. ↑ What made the Bauhaus the myth of modernism? in Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung on February 13, 2019
5. ↑ Exhibition shows ways to the Bauhaus in Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung from February 8, 2019