Roland Ostertag (architect)

Roland Ostertag (born February 19, 1931 in Ludwigsburg ; † May 11, 2018 in Stuttgart ) was a German architect and university professor . In the last years of his life, Ostertag campaigned primarily for the preservation of listed historical buildings. He was a staunch opponent of the Stuttgart 21 rail project .

Life

Roland Ostertag studied architecture from 1951 to 1956 at the Technical University of Stuttgart , where he also passed his main diploma examination in 1956. From 1954 to 1957 he worked at Curt Siegel's chair and with Jürgen Joedicke at the Technical University of Stuttgart. Since 1957 he has been working as a freelancer in Stuttgart .

From 1970 to 1998 he was full professor for building theory and design at the Technical University of Braunschweig . From 1993 to 1996 he was President of the Federal Chamber of Architects and visiting professor at the Technical University of Vienna .

On September 14, 2015, Roland Ostertag received the Federal Cross of Merit First Class from the Deputy Prime Minister of Baden-Württemberg, Nils Schmid .

plant

City Hall Kaiserslautern

Bad Friedrichshall town hall

Laupheim town hall

The town hall in Kaiserslautern can be regarded as the main work on Easter . Most recently, Ostertag focused on the preservation of urban monuments ; His best-known projects are the renovation of the old theater in Stuttgart and the Bosch area in the Stuttgart-Mitte district . Roland Ostertag's work archive is kept in the Southwest German Archive for Architecture and Civil Engineering (saai).

Buildings and designs

1959: Gas station and car dealership in Leonberg

1959–1960: Business school in Reutlingen

1960: Kaiserslautern town hall

before 1960: Sparkasse in Fellbach

1960–1962: Apartment building in Reutlingen

1962: Competition for Darmstadt Town Hall (with Manfred Stanger)

1962–1964: Factory building in Frickenhausen (with Heinz Höflinger)

1963–1964: Competition for the Sindelfingen Town Hall (with Ulf Weber)

1964: Competition for a high school in Plochingen

1965: Competition for a concert hall in Augsburg

1965: Competition for the Völkerkundemuseum in Mannheim

1965: Competition for the engineering school in Ravensburg (with Horst Höfler)

1965: Bissingen town hall

1966: District Office Backnang

1964–1966: Elementary and training school in Ludwigsburg (with Peter Frenkel)

1964–1966: School center Feuerhägle in Tübingen (with Peter Frenkel)

1964–1967: Bad Friedrichshall town hall

1968–1975: Laupheim Town Hall

1970: Frickenhausen town hall

1970–1971: Atelier for Erich Hauser in Rottweil

1972: Schönaich Town Hall

before 1979: Vocational training center Waiblingen of the Diakonie Stetten

1990: Social Office of the Deutsche Bundespost in Stuttgart

1999: Bosch site in Stuttgart

Fonts (selection)

Heiner Wittmann , ed., Roland Ostertag, The exhibition at the Gähkopf. City history. Architecture. Urban planning , Stuttgart: private printing 2018.
u. a., Stuttgart without a history. Urban planning in a critical retrospect . With contributions by Max Bächer , Helmut Böhme , Hermann Hesse, Roland Ostertag, Frei Otto , Paul Sauer and Klaus Töpfer , Stuttgart: Peter-Grohmann-Verlag 2018, ISBN 978-3-944137-81-0 .
Town halls and municipal centers. Callwey Verlag, Munich 1974, ISBN 3-7667-0285-8 .
(with Otto Meitinger and Jeremy Dixon): Building and building in historical surroundings. Karl Kraemer GmbH + Co., Stuttgart 1983, ISBN 3-7828-3108-X .
(with Falk Jaeger): Dense living. Karl Kraemer GmbH + Co., Stuttgart 1985 ISBN 3-7828-3112-8 .
Problems of industrial construction. Laudation to Norman Foster . In: Deutsches Architektenblatt. Born in 1986, No. 9.
The Bosch area. Karl Kraemer GmbH + Co., Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-7828-1613-7 .
The disenchanted city. Stuttgart 21 , the grave of billions. Plea against self-destruction. Grohmann Verlag, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-927340-83-1 .
The jewel - misery and opportunity. Comments by the Stuttgart architect Roland Ostertag on the discussions about the Villa Berg . In: Stuttgarter Nachrichten. No. 137 of June 17, 2013, page 13.

literature

Sebastian Redecke: Roland Ostertag 1931–2018. In: Bauwelt , ISSN 0005-6855 , No. 13, 2018, p. 8 ( PDF; 599 kB ).

Web links

Literature by and about Roland Ostertag in the catalog of the German National Library
Works by and about Roland Ostertag in the German Digital Library
Roland Ostertag. In: Structurae

Individual evidence

↑ Amber Sayah: Roland Ostertag is dead: architect and committed citizen. In: Stuttgarter Zeitung . May 14, 2018, accessed May 15, 2018 . Well-known Stuttgart-21 opponent Ostertag dies at 87. In: sueddeutsche.de =. May 14, 2018, accessed August 26, 2020 .
↑ Burning speech as a declaration of love to Stuttgart . In: Stuttgarter Zeitung . tape 71 , no. 213 , September 15, 2015, p. 21 .
↑ Building + Living . Issue 15/1961 ( digitized version )
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l Der Baumeister , born 1966, issue 8
↑ Martin Schall: Town Hall Bissingen 1965 made of precast concrete parts. In: Modern Architecture and Historic Building Photo Archive. October 9, 2017, accessed May 15, 2018 .
^ Entry on German Post-War Modern
↑ Building + Living . Issue 26/1972 ( digitized version )
↑ Building + Living . Issue 33/1979 ( digitized version )
^ Johannes Möhrle : Postbauten , Karl Krämer Verlag 1989

personal data
SURNAME	Easter day, Roland
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German architect and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	February 19, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH	Ludwigsburg
DATE OF DEATH	May 11, 2018
Place of death	Stuttgart

[1] Amber Sayah: Roland Ostertag is dead: architect and committed citizen. In: Stuttgarter Zeitung . May 14, 2018, accessed May 15, 2018 . Well-known Stuttgart-21 opponent Ostertag dies at 87. In: sueddeutsche.de =. May 14, 2018, accessed August 26, 2020 .

[stz-2015-213-21-2] Burning speech as a declaration of love to Stuttgart . In: Stuttgarter Zeitung . tape 71 , no. 213 , September 15, 2015, p. 21 .

[3] Building + Living . Issue 15/1961 ( digitized version )

[BM66-4] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l Der Baumeister , born 1966, issue 8

[5] Martin Schall: Town Hall Bissingen 1965 made of precast concrete parts. In: Modern Architecture and Historic Building Photo Archive. October 9, 2017, accessed May 15, 2018 .

[6] Entry on German Post-War Modern

[7] Building + Living . Issue 26/1972 ( digitized version )

[8] Building + Living . Issue 33/1979 ( digitized version )

[PB-9] Johannes Möhrle : Postbauten , Karl Krämer Verlag 1989