Ulrich Stevens

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Ulrich Stevens (born December 3, 1948 in Mülheim an der Ruhr ) is a German art historian and monument conservator . He served in the footsteps of Udo Mainzer from October 2011 until entering the service of Andrea Pufke 1 April 2012 as acting director of the LVR-Office of Historic Monuments in the Rhineland and public curator of the Rhineland Regional Council (LVR).

Life

Growing up in Duisburg , Ulrich Stevens attended the State Landfermann Gymnasium there , where he graduated from high school in 1967 . He then studied art history , archeology as well as prehistory and early history at the University of Cologne from April 1969 to July 1978 , with a short break in Basel . In Cologne he also did his doctorate under Günther Binding with a thesis on castle chapels in the German-speaking area , a topic that should have dealt with him again since the 1990s.

After completing his studies Ulrich Stevens began his career with the omission of the usual today traineeship from August 1978 to January 1980 as a research associate in the fast inventorying of the Regional Association of Westphalia-Lippe in Münster settled Heritage Institute . From there, on February 1, 1980, he moved to Bonn to work as a scientific advisor in practical monument preservation to the Rhineland State Conservator there (today LVR Office for Monument Preservation in the Rhineland, since 1985 in Brauweiler ) February 2014 belonged. In the Central Department , he was initially supposed to accompany the established colleagues, but as a result of staff shortages, he then looked after the monuments of several districts and cities, including the district of Viersen and the city of Wuppertal, from the start . In March 1988, Stevens took over the coordination of the center section . As a result of a further reduction in the number of speakers in the field of practical monument preservation, other areas were temporarily assigned to him, including in particular the Zollverein colliery and the Werden Abbey in Essen . In the course of the - unrealized - bridge planning in Benrath Castle Park , he worked his way into a new subject from 1990: the preservation of garden monuments . As a representative of the monument office, he represented this subject from the 1990s in the working group of the "Association of State Monument Preservators". Further posts from July 27, 2005 were the interim management and, from October 1, 2005, the regular management of the restoration / workshops as successor to Wilfried Hansmann . This management function was also associated with the editorial work on the publication of the quarterly magazine “Denkmalpflege im Rheinland”.

Ulrich Stevens, who held various teaching positions in the Department of Architectural History of the Art History Institute of the University of Cologne from 1996 to 2002, in which he held seminars on topics such as Baroque in the Rhineland , fortress construction and on his favorite topic , garden art in the Rhineland , covered by his almost nationwide Use a wide variety of specialist areas. The repair and scientific processing of the chapel of Little Jerusalem can be highlighted here. During his last five years of service at the LVR Office for Monument Preservation, he dealt with topics of the future, including KuLaDig ("Culture. Landscape. Digital"), the official database "Bodendenkmalpflege, Denkmalpflege online" (BoDeOn) and especially the thesaurus project " Word Network -Kultur "(WNK), ie the representation of monument preservation and monuments in digital form. Since August 2011 deputy state curator, he was provisional director from mid-October 2011 to the end of March 2012.

Fonts

  • Castle chapels in the German-speaking area. Dissertation . University of Cologne, Philosophical Faculty, Architecture Dept. of the Art History Institute, Cologne 1978.
  • with Friedhelm Weinforth, Carsten Sternberg: City of Kempen on the Lower Rhine. 2nd Edition. (= Rheinische Kunststätten. Issue 44). Rhenish Association for Monument Preservation and Landscape Protection , Neuss 1989, ISBN 3-88094-645-0 .
  • Grefrath an der Niers community. (= Rheinische Kunststätten. Issue 395). Rhenish Association for Monument Preservation and Landscape Protection, Neuss 1993, ISBN 3-88094-738-4 .
  • Castle chapels. Devotion, representation and defense in the Middle Ages. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2003, ISBN 3-534-14284-5 .
  • Editing and collaboration: The Little Jerusalem Chapel near Willich-Neersen. (= Workbook of the Rhenish monument preservation. Volume 63). Werner'sche Verlagsanstalt, Worms 2004, ISBN 3-88462-207-2 .
  • Monuments and history in the Viersen district. Goch 2008, ISBN 978-3-933969-95-8 .
  • Editing with Ulrike Heckner and Eva-Maria Beckmann: Monument culture in the Rhineland: Festschrift for Udo Mainzer on his 65th birthday. (= Workbook of the Rhenish preservation of monuments. Volume 63, special volume). Werner'sche Verlagsanstalt, Worms 2010, ISBN 978-3-88462-300-8 .
  • Gardens in fairy tales. In: Monument culture in the Rhineland: Festschrift for Udo Mainzer on his 65th birthday. (= Workbook of the Rhenish preservation of monuments. Volume 63, special volume). Werner'sche Verlagsanstalt, Worms 2010, ISBN 978-3-88462-300-8 , pp. 347-359.
  • On the history of the restoration workshops in the LVR-ADR. In: Preservation of monuments in the Rhineland. Volume 31, No. 2, Klartext Verlag, Essen 2014, ISSN  0177-2619 , pp. 51–55.

literature

  • Andrea Pufke: Dr. Ulrich Stevens is retiring. In: Preservation of monuments in the Rhineland. 31st year, No. 2, Klartext Verlag, Essen 2014, ISSN  0177-2619 , pp. 49–50.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Andrea Pufke: Dr. Ulrich Stevens is retiring. In: Preservation of monuments in the Rhineland. 31st year, No. 2, Klartext Verlag, Essen 2014, ISSN  0177-2619 .
personal data
SURNAME Stevens, Ulrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German conservationist
DATE OF BIRTH December 3, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Mülheim an der Ruhr