Volker victory

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Volker victory (born on 20th September 1937 in Liebau in Silesia ) is a German architect .

Live and act

Sieg was born into a family of employees. He learned the mason trade . He then studied at the civil engineering school in Gotha , where he graduated as a civil engineer in 1956 . He then completed a distance learning course at the University of Architecture and Construction in Weimar , where he graduated in 1972 with a degree in engineering. During his studies he worked as an architect at VEB Industrieprojektierung Jena and then at VEB Hochbauprojektierung in Leipzig as head of the design department.

At the end of the 1950s he received orders from industry, e.g. B. for the glass works Lauscha , for the ceramic works Hermsdorf , for the VEB Carl Zeiss Jena and for the institute for building materials at the university for architecture and construction in Weimar.

Buildings (selection)

Leipzig, Café Brühl
VEB Baukombinat Leipzig
Leipzig, Polish Information and Culture Center
  • Karl Marx University Leipzig (KMU): Sieg was involved in the project planning of the Karl Marx University Leipzig in 1961 and from 1968 to 1975 under the direction of Hermann Henselmann together with Rudolf Skoda , Eberhard Göschel , Horst Siegel and Helmut Ullmann . The design collective designed, among other things, the SME high-rise and the main SME building , which was demolished in 2005.
  • New Gewandhaus on Augustusplatz: Under the direction of Rudolf Skoda, Volker Sieg was involved in the planning of the New Gewandhaus between 1977 and 1981 together with Eberhard Göschel and Winfried Sziegoleit .
  • Research and administration building of the VEB Metall-Leichtbaukombinat in Arno-Nitzsche-Straße 45 in Leipzig: From 1969 to 1970 Sieg built the research and administration building of the VEB Metall-Leichtbaukombinat. It was an experimental building with a visible steel structure and an aluminum-wood facade. Steel cell ceilings, external shading, exposed staircases and steel were used. The main entrance was a decorative steel door from Günter Laufer .
  • Großzschocher residential area: Around 1968, Sieg built a five-storey residential building in the Großzschocher residential area.
  • Neuhaida residential area (Probstheida): The Neuhaida residential area (Probstheida) was built from 1966 to 1968 as a ten-storey central aisle residential building with 800 residential units and a length of 300 m based on designs by the architects Erich Böhme . Additions were made from 1972 to 1973 (by Lothar Mothes , Dieter Matthes, Achim Schulz ) and from 1973 to 1974 by Volker Sieg.
  • Großer Blumenberg in Leipzig: From 1961 to 1964 Sieg reconstructed the building of the Großer Blumenberg. The building was partially destroyed by the air raids; especially the western part was affected. From 1961 to 1964 the reconstruction took place based on the drafts and under the direction of Volker Sieg. In the reconstructed western part, Sieg furnished 28 apartments, on the ground floor he created the Café am Brühl with 124 seats. The mural in the café was created by Edgar Steffen and is reminiscent of the work of the Neuberin .
  • Baukombinat Leipzig (BKL): From 1967 to 1969 Volker Sieg created the central office building of the Baukombinat Leipzig (BKL office building) on ​​the corner of Grimmaische Strasse 27/29, the corner of Ritterstrasse, adjacent to the Königsbau , Goethestrasse 1 in Leipzig. The building had space for 450 workplaces. On the first floor there were four shops and the connection to the theater passage to Augustusplatz. The building was a corner gap closure at the site of demolished old buildings from the Baroque period. It is a steel frame building in panel construction with a surrounding roof terrace and an aluminum curtain wall. The owner TLG Immobilien had the building demolished in 2011.
  • Polish Information and Culture Center: From 1968 to 1969 Volker Sieg created the Polish Information and Culture Center in the flat building at Brühl 9. The center included a sales salon, an exhibition foyer, library, reading room, film room and club rooms with information on politics, economy and culture in Poland . The metal design was done by Günter Laufer, the wood design by Friedemann Lenk . The flat wing building was located at the ten-story high-rise buildings Brühl 3-13 / towards Wagner-Straße, created by Horst Krantz together with Günter Gerhardt , Hubertus Berger and Heinz Baldauf .

literature

  • Christoph Glorius: Volker Sieg. In: Holger Barth, Thomas Topfstedt (eds.): From building artist to complex designer. Architects in the GDR. Documentation of an IRS collection of biographical data / IRS, Institute for Regional Development and Structural Planning. Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-934669-00-X , pp. 210f.
  • Joachim Schulz, Wolfgang Müller and Erwin Schrödl: Architectural Guide GDR, Leipzig District . VEB Verlag für Bauwesen, Berlin 1976, OCLC 874871110 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Glorius, p. 210f.
  2. ↑ Schulz / Müller / Schrödl, Architect's Guide GDR - Leipzig District, p. 57 No. 87 “Research and administration building of the VEB Metall-Leichtbaukombinat in Arno-Nitzsche-Straße”.
  3. ↑ Schulz / Müller / Schrödl, Architect's Guide GDR - Leipzig District, p. 56 No. 85 “Neuheida Residential Area”.
  4. ↑ Schulz / Müller / Schrödl, Architect's Guide GDR - Leipzig District, p. 45 No. 60 "Großer Blumenberg".
  5. ↑ Schulz / Müller / Schrödl, Architect's Guide GDR - Leipzig District, p. 25 No. 14 “BKL Office Building”.
  6. ↑ Corner building Leipzig, Grimmaische Straße 27/29, corner of Ritterstraße on dv-s.de
  7. ↑ Schulz / Müller / Schrödl, Architect's Guide GDR - Leipzig District, p. 44 No. 58 “Polish Information and Culture Center”.
personal data
SURNAME Victory, Volker
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH September 20, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Liebau