Ronald Clark (landscape architect)

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Ronald Clark 2014 during the opening of the 5th KunstFestSpiele Herrenhausen

Ronald Clark (* 1956 in Wardenburg ) is a German landscape architect and engineer , author , publisher and director of the Herrenhausen Gardens in Hanover .

Life

Ronald Clark was born as the son of farmers in Wardenburg and grew up on his parents' farm there in Marschweg . After high school he went the mid-1970s to Hanover and studied at the University of Hannover initially horticultural then, the tray landscape maintenance .

In 1987 Ronald Clark became deputy head of department in what was then the green space department in Hanover, where he learned "the administrative part from the bottom up". After his promotion to the head of the Hanoverian Office for Green Areas , he was responsible for around 1200 employees in green space maintenance and nature conservation in the Lower Saxony state capital.

From 1995 to 2002 Ronald Clark was chairman of the Lower Saxony regional association of the German Society for Garden Art and Landscape Culture eV (DGGL).

At the microphone: Ronald Clark in the Berggarten ;
2018 with Dagmar Brand at the vernissage of the open-air exhibition Florale

In 2005, Clark took over the management of the Herrenhausen Gardens, where he was responsible for both its administration and "marketing". As director, he is also responsible in particular for the presentation of the history and the preservation of the historical garden ensemble: The Lower Saxony state capital is planning the almost original large garden in Herrenhausen , in which the polymath Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz or the composer Georg Friedrich Händel worked Application for the title of UNESCO World Heritage Site .

In 2008 the landscape architect Anke Seegert became the deputy director of the Herrenhausen Gardens.

At the beginning of June 2014 Prince Andrew visited the Lower Saxony State Exhibition When the Royals from Hanover came on the occasion of the 300th anniversary of the beginning of the personal union between Great Britain and Hanover . Afterwards he celebrated the birthday of his mother, Queen Elisabeth II. For the first time in the Herrenhausen Gardens. There the prince baptized the “royal rose” selected and named by Ronald Clark after the Hanoverian elector and first British monarch of the personal union King George I.

Fonts (selection)

  • Nik Barlo jr., Hanae Komachi, Henning Queren, illustrated book, ed. by Ronald Clark and Wilken von Bothmer, 1st edition, Rostock: Hinstorff, 2006:
  • Ronald Clark (Ed., Red.): ... more magnificent and charming than ever ... 70 years of renewal of the Great Garden. Center for Garden Art and Landscape Architecture (CGL), The Renewal of the Great Garden 1936/37 ... Herrenhausen Gardens - Great Garden, Behind the Magnificence , accompanying document to the four exhibitions from April 1 to May 13, 2007, City of Hanover and the center for garden art and landscape architecture from the University of Hanover, Hanover: Herrenhausen Gardens, 2007, ISBN 978-3-00-021172-0 .
  • Ronald Clark, Ekkehard Fiss (collaborators): Garden travel guide. The travel guide to 1,400 private and public parks in Germany , 6th, updated and expanded new edition, ed. from the German Society for Garden Art and Landscape Culture eV, Munich: Callwey, 2008, ISBN 978-3-7667-1769-6 .
  • Ronald Clark, Ekkehard Fiss (collaborators): Garden travel guide for Northern Germany. The travel guide to around 400 private and public parks in Northern Germany [Subtitle: All important dates, addresses and information at a glance ], Munich: Callwey, 2008, ISBN 978-3-7667-2017-7 and ISBN 3-7667-2017 -1 .
  • Ronald Clark, Anja Kestennus (Red.): Venus, Faune and Fechter. The golden figures in the hedge theater , 1st edition, Hanover: Herrenhausen Gardens; Friends of the Herrenhausen Gardens, 2009, ISBN 978-3-940308-40-5 .
  • Ronald Clark (Ed.): Hanover from the air. Then and now , with aerial photographs from the archive of the Historisches Museum Hannover and contemporary photos by Martin Elsen, 1st edition, Hannover: Madsack Medienagentur GmbH & Co. KG, 2015, ISBN 978-3-94030-898-6 .

Media reports (selection)

  • Nikola Nording: Lord of the Herrenhausen Gardens / Born in Wardenburg, Ronald Clark has been managing parkland since 2005 , online on the website of the Nordwest-Zeitung on May 30, 2013, last accessed on June 8, 2014
  • Klaus Pokatzky: Gardens of Representation , interview with Ronald Clark on the radio program Deutschlandradio Kultur on April 3, 2013; Online transcript , last accessed June 8, 2014

Web links

Commons : Ronald Clark (landscape architect)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

References and comments

  1. ↑ a b Compare the information under the GND number of the German National Library
  2. ↑ a b c d Nikola Nording: Lord of the Herrenhausen Gardens ... , see the section on media reports
  3. ↑ Note: Deviating from this, the German National Library names Oldenburg as the place of birth under the GND number .
  4. ^ NN : Garden Travel Guide 2011 , online book presentation on the DGGL website, last accessed on June 8, 2014
  5. ↑ sti / kle ( dpa ): Herrenhausen Gardens are to become a world cultural heritage / Now Hanover has packed it too: Lower Saxony's state capital is planning to put its famous baroque complex in the race for the coveted UNESCO title. But it takes patience, online on the website of Deutsche Welle from August 12, 2013, last accessed on June 23, 2017
  6. ↑ oV : Seegert, Anke in the database Niedersächsische people (new entry required) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library in the version of 27 August 2014 last downloaded 23 June 2017
  7. ↑ Simon Benne: Prince Andrew in Hanover Between silver furniture and battle stories / Prince Andrew continued his visit to Germany with a tour of the great Royals Show in Hanover. In the state museum, schoolgirls explained selected exhibits to the Queen's second eldest son. In the afternoon we went to Herrenhausen , online on the page of the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung from June 4, 2014, last accessed on June 8, 2014
  8. ↑ NN: Königliche Gartenkunst / Prince Andrew baptizes Rose in Herrenhausen ( Memento of the original from June 20, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the hannover.de site , last accessed on June 8, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hannover.de
personal data
SURNAME Clark, Ronald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German landscape architect and engineer, author and editor and director of the Herrenhausen Gardens in Hanover
DATE OF BIRTH 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Wardenburg