Ulrich Conrads

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Ulrich Conrads (born October 27, 1923 in Bielefeld ; † September 28, 2013 in Berlin ) was one of the most important German architecture critics , urban planning critics and publicists of the second half of the 20th century.

Life

Conrads spent his school days in Wuppertal and Solingen , after graduating from high school in the spring of 1942, he spent the period up to May 1945 “at war” . He was wounded several times. From 1946 to 1951 Conrads studied art history, archeology, comparative literature, philosophy, sociology and theater studies in Marburg . In 1951 he received his doctorate with a dissertation on demons and drolleries on French church buildings of the 12th century. From 1950 to 1952 he was Leopold Zahn's assistant editor for the monthly magazine Das Arbeiter . From 1952 to 1954 he was editor of the monthly magazine baukunst und werkform , which he managed from 1954 to 1957. Conrads became known to a wider audience through the series Neues Bauen - in our time , which was broadcast by RIAS Berlin from 1960 to 1972 . Recordings of the around 800 broadcasts are in the Ulrich Conrads archive of the BTU Cottbus .

For more than three decades, from July 1957 to the end of 1988, Conrads was editor-in-chief of Bauwelt, which is published weekly in Berlin . In 1964, together with Gerd Albers , Kurt Eggeling, Klaus-Jakob Thiele and Klaus Winter, he founded the Stadtbauwelt as a quarterly publication of the Bauwelt, whose target group are architects, town planners and town planners, and of which he was also editor-in-chief until 1988. In 1963 Conrads founded the Bauwelt Fundamente book series , the most extensive German-language book series on the theory of architecture and urban development with 150 titles. In 1981 he founded the bilingual (German and English) Daidalos - Berlin Architectural Journal with Norbert Miller , Werner Oechslin , Bernhard Schneider and Anna Teut , and was its publisher and editor-in-chief until 1992.

The German Urban Development Award was initiated in 1980 by Ulrich Conrads, together with the Bank für Gemeinwirtschaft , and named after their long-term chairman of the board, Walter Hesselbach . Since 2006, the prize has been awarded by the Wüstenrot Foundation in cooperation with the German Academy for Urban Development and Regional Planning e. V. continued.

Since 1981 Conrads was a member of the architecture section of the Free Academy of the Arts in Hamburg .

A large part of his legacy (texts, films, documents and recordings of his radio broadcasts) has been in the Ulrich Conrads archive of the Information, Communication and Media Center ( IKMZ ) of the BTU Cottbus since 2005 . He handed over his private library to the university library of the Bauhaus University Weimar .

Ulrich Conrads died on September 28, 2013, shortly before his 90th birthday, in Berlin .

Awards

Publications (selection)

  • Demons and drolleries on Romanesque and Gothic church buildings in France. A contribution to the characteristics of two areas of medieval sculpture. Marburg 1950 (dissertation, University of Marburg, 1951).
  • with Hans G. Sperlich: Fantastic architecture . Hatje, Stuttgart 1960; 2nd, unchanged edition 1983, ISBN 3-7757-0179-6 .
  • Ed .: Programs and manifestos on 20th century architecture (= Bauwelt Fundamente . Volume 1). Ullstein, Berlin 1964.
  • Architecture: space for life. A crash course for city dwellers. Arranged and presented by Ulrich Conrads. Put on book pages by Sabine Barth. Bertelsmann, Munich / Gütersloh / Vienna 1972, ISBN 3-570-08880-4 .
  • Environment city. Arguments and teaching examples for a humane architecture. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1974, ISBN 3-499-16885-5 .
  • Ed .: Um uns die Stadt 1931. Anthology of new urban poetry. Bauwelt Fundamente Volume 75, Vieweg & Sohn, Braunschweig 1986.
  • Edited with Peter Neitzke : Mensch und Raum. The Darmstadt Conversation 1951. With the lectures by Schwarz , Schweizer, Heidegger , Ortega y Gasset . New edition: Vieweg, Braunschweig 1991 (= Bauwelt-Fundamente. Volume 94), ISBN 978-3-528-08794-4 .
  • Ed .: The Bauhaus Debate 1953: Documents of a repressed controversy (= Bauwelt Fundamente. Volume 100). Braunschweig, Vieweg, Wiesbaden 1994.
  • Editorial team: 20 years of the German Urban Development Award: 1980–2000. Möller, Frankfurt 2000.
  • Edited with Eduard Führ and Christian Gänshirt: Bringing up the language. Criticism of architecture criticism. Waxmann, Münster 2003, ISBN 3-8309-1304-4 .
  • Ed .: The cities open to the sky. Speeches and reflections on the reconstruction of what was lost and the return of the new building in 1948/49 (= Bauwelt Fundamente. Volume 125). Birkhäuser, Basel 2003, ISBN 3-7643-6903-5 .
  • Time of the Labyrinth: Observing, Thinking, Determining 1956–2006 (= Bauwelt Fundamente. Volume 136). Birkhäuser, Basel 2007, ISBN 978-3-7643-7821-9 .

literature

  • For Ulrich Conrads von Freunde: ... and to grasp moving content in such a way that it is moving. Vieweg, Braunschweig 1988, ISBN 3-528-08738-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ulrich Conrads: Time of the Labyrinth: Observing, Reflecting, Establishing 1956-2006. (= Bauwelt Fundamente. Volume 136). Birkhäuser, Basel 2007, ISBN 978-3-7643-7821-9 , p. 228.
  2. ↑ We mourn Ulrich Conrads . Advertisement in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, October 12, 2013.
  3. ↑ a b curriculum vitae ( memento from July 1, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
  4. ↑ Demons and drolleries on Romanesque and Gothic church buildings in France. A contribution to the characteristics of two areas of medieval sculpture. Marburg 1950 (= dissertation, University of Marburg, 1951).
  5. ↑ a b c Ulrich Conrads: Time of the Labyrinth: Observing, Thinking, Establishing 1956–2006. (= Bauwelt Fundamente. Volume 136). Birkhäuser, Basel 2007, ISBN 978-3-7643-7821-9 , p. 229.
  6. ↑ a b Website of the Ulrich Conrads Archive at b-tu.de.
  7. ↑ Hermann Funke: Foundations of our built world. In: The time. April 22, 1966. Retrieved June 18, 2013.
  8. ↑ Manfred Sack : Every issue an attempt. Daidalos, a new architecture magazine. In: The time . September 25, 1981. Retrieved May 27, 2013.
  9. ^ Website of the Deutscher Städtebaupreis: http://www.staedtebaupreis.de/ accessed on November 2, 2013.
  10. ↑ List of members on the academy's website, see: http://www.akademie-der-kuenste.de/alle.html , accessed on November 2, 2013
  11. ↑ http://www.uni-weimar.de/de/architektur/aktuell/aktuell/titel/nachruf-dr-conrad-ulrichs-verstorben/ Obituary by Hilde Barz-Malfatti on www.uni-weimar.de accessed on 12 . October 2013.
  12. ^ Obituary by Bernhard Schulz (architecture critic) in the Berliner Tagesspiegel http://www.tagesspiegel.de/kultur/gebaute-welt/8893052.html , accessed on October 7, 2013.
  13. ↑ Obituary in the Bauwelt (magazine) (PDF) - ( Memento of the original from November 2, 2013 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. Retrieved November 2, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bauwelt.de
  14. ↑ Ulrich Conrads (Dr.-Ing. E. h. 1990) on tu-braunschweig.de.
  15. ↑ Press release from the Brandenburg Technical University Cottbus  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on tu-cottbus.de.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.tu-cottbus.de  
  16. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from October 29, 2013 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. Message from dbz @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / six4.bauverlag.de
  17. ^ [1] Report from the real estate newspaper.
  18. ↑ Press release of the Association of German Critics (Berlin) ( Memento from October 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  19. ↑ Manfred Sack: In a nutshell, Bauwelt-Fundamente "Um uns die Stadt". In: The time. April 24, 1987, Retrieved June 18, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Conrads, Ulrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architecture critic
DATE OF BIRTH October 27, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Bielefeld
DATE OF DEATH September 28, 2013
Place of death Berlin