Simone Hain
Katrin Simone Hain (* 1956 in Elsterwerda ) is a German architecture and planning historian (focus: history of modern planning and building, GDR building history), member of the German Academy for Urban Development and Regional Planning, and was professor at the Institute for from 2006 to 2016 City and building history at the Graz University of Technology .
Life
Hain studied art history in Brno (Brno, Czech Republic) and urban planning with Bruno Flierl, (whose assistant she was) at the Humboldt University in Berlin . She did her doctorate on the architectural concepts of the Czech avant-garde in the 1930s and 1940s (1987). She has received teaching assignments from various universities, e. B. Humboldt University Berlin , Art Academy Berlin-Weißensee , Bauhaus University Weimar , University of Fine Arts Hamburg , University of California, Berkeley .
In 1990 she became head of the “Theory and History” department at the Institute for Urban Development and Architecture in the GDR. Publications about Karel Teige , Mart Stam , Hannes Meyer , Bruno Taut and Hans Schmidt followed. She played a key role in setting up the scientific collections at the Institute for Regional Development and Structural Planning in Erkner (IRS), where she was in charge of the research area “Modern Building and Planning History”. In the mid-90s she was deputy chairwoman of the Berlin State Monument Council.
Hain has been working as a freelance reviewer and publicist since 1996 (after criticizing the inner city plan ). It brought about the reconstruction of the building in the Hannoversche Straße 30 (former StäV , today BMBF ). In 2000 she became a substitute professor for building history at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts (work on Hoyerswerda : heuristic explorations in a "shrinking city"). Together with Hartmut Frank, she initiated the first pan-German architectural history retrospective “Two German Architectures 1949–1989”, a traveling exhibition by the Institute for Foreign Relations (ifa); Previous positions: Hamburg, Leipzig, Delft, Istanbul, Bucharest, Athens, Brussels, Copenhagen. From April 2005 to October 2006, Hain taught at the Bauhaus University Weimar (Gropius Professorship for the History of Modern Architecture).
Publications
Articles in anthologies and conference volumes (selection)
- The other charter, modern urban planning put to the test of politics (1993, course book 112)
- Ex oriente lux, Germany and the East (1994, exhibition catalog of the Deutsches Architekturmuseum Frankfurt)
- Journey to Moscow, source edition on recent planning history (1995, IRS)
- Colonial architecture? The Stalinallee in the context of international aesthetic debates (1996, Akademie-Verlag)
- ABC and GDR, three attempts to combine the avant-garde with socialism in Germany (1996, Cologne DuMont)
- The salons of the socialists, history and shape of the culture houses in the GDR (1996, IRS)
- Archeology and appropriation; Ideas, plans, city configurations in East Berlin after 1945 (1996, IRS)
- Practicality, beauty and idea; on the Schinkel reception in the early GDR and the plans for the reconstruction of the Bauakademie (1997, Verlag für Bauwesen)
- Why, for example, the Stalinallee? Contributions to a history of transformation in modern planning and building (1999, IRS)
- Between Arkonaplatz and Nikolaiviertel, conflicts when returning to the city (2000, City of Architecture)
- Federal Ministry of Education and Research: Former Permanent Mission of the Federal Republic of Germany in the GDR, Hannoversche Strasse 30 (2000, capital Berlin)
- The architectural doctrine of the "National Traditions" in the early GDR (2000, Deutsche Verlagsanstalt)
- Adventure in concrete, industrialization in the GDR (2000, Deutsche Verlagsanstalt)
- Our kind, Gerhard Gundermann and real life (2000, exhibition catalog everyday culture Eisenhüttenstadt)
- Floating over a border, cultural encounters in the permanent representation of the Federal Republic (2002, exhibition Mauersprünge und Wahnzimmer, Leipzig)
- The utopian potential of the record (2003, Junius-Verlag Hamburg)
Journal articles (selection)
- From instrument to monument? Preservation of monuments to modern buildings (1990, form + Zweck, 4)
- Who is protecting Norman Foster ? (1992, Bauwelt)
- Mart Stam in the GDR (1992, form + Zweck, 4–5)
- On the 100th birthday of Hans Schmidt (1993, Bauwelt)
- History of East Berlin Urban Space in the GDR (1995, foyer)
- Modernism from below (1996, The Architect)
- Hot air or why so much ado about a plan? (1996, BZ)
- Socialist salons, cultural centers in downtown Berlin (1997, Stadtforum)
- Reconstruction made in GDR (1997, foyer)
- The Manhattan Project in Prussian Aspik, Berlin Urban Development (1998, Friday)
- The Berlin urban development discourse as symbolic action and expression of hegemonic interests (1998, WeltTrends, 17)
- Reply to Peter Strieder (1998, WeltTrends, 20)
- Renaissance of the architect in the age of industrialization, the economically justified aesthetics of Hans Schmidt (2000, werk ,iculture, living, 11)
Expert opinions and projects (selection)
- Documentation of building and planning history as well as assessment of the existing building for the former Volkspark Monbijou
- From the permanent representation of the FRG in the GDR to the 2nd official seat of the Federal Ministry for Education, Science, Research and Technology in Berlin (with specialization Scharounatelier), preparatory study, Berlin 1998, in cooperation with the architecture office Jochem Jourdan (on behalf of the Federal Office for Civil engineering and spatial planning)
- The reconstruction of the Berlin forum and the development of the open spaces along the central urban architecture axis of the former capital of the GDR in the Paulick era (1950–1969), expert opinion and alternative conception in cooperation with the office for landscape architecture, District Office Mitte, 1999
- Two German architectures 1949–1989, conception together with Hartmut Frank, traveling exhibition of the Institute for Foreign Relations, 2004
Web links
- Literature by and about Simone Hain in the catalog of the German National Library
Footnotes and individual references
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original dated February 16, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Bruno Flierl. In: arch INFORM ; Retrieved December 1, 2009.
- ↑ Hans Schmidt. In: arch INFORM ; Retrieved December 1, 2009.
- ↑ http://www.irs-net.de/index.php
- ↑ http://www.stadtentwicklung.berlin.de/denkmal/landesdenkmalrat/de/lösungen.shtml
- ↑ Hartmut Frank. In: arch INFORM ; Retrieved December 1, 2009.
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original dated February 21, 2007 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.
- ↑ http://www.dam-online.de/
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from April 5, 2007 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.
1. Chair for building theory: August Essenwein (1865–1866) | Josef Horky (1866–1875) | Johann Wist (1875–1913) | Franz Drobny (1914–1925) | Friedrich Jäckel (1926–1943) | Karl Raimund Lorenz (1947–1979) | Günther Domenig (1980–2000) | Hrvoje Njiric (2000-2005) | Andreas Hild (2005–2007) | Hans Gangoly (since 2007)
2. Chair for architectural technology: Heinrich Bank (1872–1906) | Leopold Theyer (1907–1914) | Leopold Cerny (1914–1925) | Julius Schulte (1926–1929) | Wunibald Deininger (1931–1945) | Rolf Eugen Heger (1947–1955) | Günther Gottwald (1957–1971) | Wolfgang Fallosch (1973–1982) | Werner Hollomey (1974-1997) | Horst Gamerith (1977–1981) | Roger Riewe (since 2002)
3. Chair for existing design and monument preservation: Wilhelm von Löw (1888–1924) | Friedrich Zotter (1925–1961) | Ferdinand Schuster (1964–1972) | Anatol Ginelli (1975-1996) | Pierre-Alain Croset (1997-2003) | Ullrich Schwarz (2004–2007) | Simone Hain (2007-2016)
4. Chair for urban planning: Leopold Theyer (1914–1922) | Karl Hoffmann (1922–1957) | Hubert Hoffmann (1959–1974) | Peter Breitling (1975-1993) | Hansjörg Tschom (1988–2003) | Jean Marie Corneille Meuwissen (1996–2016) | Ernst Hubeli (2004–2007) | Aglaée Degros (since 2016)
5. Chair for interior design: Karl Augustinus Bieber (1961–1973) | Josef Klose (1974–1997) | Irmgard Frank (1999-2018) | Alexander Lehnerer (since 2020)
6. Chair for structural design: Friedrich Reisinger (1966–1974) | Harald Egger (1975-2000) | Evelin Rottke (2005-2007) | Harald Kloft (2007-2008) | Stefan Peters (since 2010)
7. Chair of Architectural Theory, Art and Cultural Studies: Sokratis Dimitriou (1967–1989) | Karin Wilhelm (1991-2002) | Susanne Hauser (2003–2005) | Simone Hain (2006-2007) | Ullrich Schwarz (2007–2008) | Anselm Wagner (since 2010)
8. Chair of Architecture and Landscape: Hinrich Bielenberg (1970–1978) | Franz Riepl (1980-2000) | Daniele Marques (2001-2006) | Hans Gangoly (2006-2007) | Klaus Loenhart (since 2007)
9. Chair for Contemporary Art: Giselbert Hoke (1976–1995) | Rudolf Kedl (1987–1991) | Hans Kupelwieser (1995–2014) | Milica Stojanovic (since 2014)
10. Chair of Architecture and Media: Urs Leonhard Hirschberg (since 2003)
11. Chair for Buildings and Energy: Brian Cody (since 2004)
12. Chair for Housing: Hansjörg Tschom (2004–2009) | Andreas Lichtblau (since 2011)
13. Chair for Basics of Construction and Design: Petra Petersson (since 2013)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hain, Simone |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hain, Simone Katrin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German historian of architecture and planning |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1956 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Elsterwerda |