Volker Kästner

Volker Kästner (* 1949 ) is a German classical archaeologist .

Volker Kästner studied classical archeology at the Humboldt University in Berlin from 1968 to 1973 . He then became a scientific assistant and received his doctorate in 1982 on the subject of archaic building ceramics of the Western Greeks, investigations into the development and inventory of forms of eaves roofs in Campania, southern Italy and Sicily . In the same year he became a research assistant at the Antikensammlung Berlin . There he became the supervisor of the architecture collection and heads the department archive. Several exhibitions were also supervised by Kästner. Since 1986 the curator of the Antikensammlung has been particularly concerned with Pergamene architecture and since 1996 has been the scientific director of the restoration of the giant frieze of the Pergamon Altar . Kästner is a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute and honorary professor at the HU Berlin.

Fonts

• The Altar of Pergamon. Hellenistic and Roman architecture (with Max Kunze ), Berlin 1985 (guide through the exhibitions of the Pergamon Museum, vol. 2)
• The world of the Etruscans. Archaeological monuments from museums in socialist countries. Issue 1: History of the Etruscans , Berlin 1988
• Tradition and modernity. Everyday masterpieces 1930/1940. International everyday architecture between the two world wars. Special exhibition in the antique collection of the Pergamon Museum (edited with Joselita Raspi Serra and Max Kunze), Edition Carte Segrete / Oktagon, Rome / Munich-Stuttgart 1991 ISBN 88-85203-30-2
• The Pergamon Altar (with Huberta Heres ), von Zabern, Mainz 2004 ISBN 3-8053-3307-2