Walther Grunwald
Walther Grunwald (born October 7, 1938 in Halle (Saale) ) is a German architect , urban planner and photographer .
Life
After studying architecture at the Technical University of Berlin from 1958 to 1964, Grunwald worked as an employee in various architectural offices in the USA until 1970. From 1968 to 1970 he worked as a design architect for Philip Johnson . From 1970 to 1972 he worked as a project manager for the United Nations Development Program in Karachi . He has had his own architecture office in Berlin since 1977, in partnership with Olaf Burmeister until 2005. The partnership with Florian Scharfe (Grunwald + Scharfe Architekten) existed from June 2009 to September 2011.
Grunwald carried out restorations of castles in the new federal states and in Bavaria as well as the lower church of the French Cathedral in Berlin and of residential buildings. In spring 2004 he won the competition for the restoration of the Weimar World Heritage Site Duchess Anna Amalia Library , which burned down four months later. He was then entrusted with the planning and construction supervision of the reconstruction. As early as 1995 he was planning the renovation of Ettersburg Castle and Hunting Lane near the Buchenwald concentration camp near Weimar. In 2010 he submitted a development plan for the shooting range in Weimar.
Grunwald was a co-founder and several times the top candidate of the voter community of independent citizens in the Berlin district of Zehlendorf .
In 2019 he published the story of his family in post-war Berlin. In “We Didn't Starve” he describes the black market activities of his relatives: They postponed coffee, meat, cigarettes, money and sweets. Aunt and uncle proudly said that even in the years of hunger they “always had something on the table”.
Fonts (selection)
as an architect
- (Ed. Et al.): The Duchess Anna Amalia Library in new splendor after the fire. Otto Meissner Verlag, 2007.
- Castles and Gardens of the Mark. Meseberg. Nicolai, Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-87584-406-8 .
- Renovation of Anna Amalia Library. Wall drying, coloring, plaster. In: Restoration of fire and extinguishing water damage , No. 59, pp. 39–50.
as a photographer
- On the edge of silence. Kulturbuchverlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-88961-207-6 .
as a genealogist
- We did not starve: The Black Market in Berlin 1945 to 1949. Edition Braus, Berlin, 2019, ISBN 978-3862281909 .
literature
- Jürgen Bacia: Party Handbook. The parties of the Federal Republic of Germany 1945-1980. Volume 2, Westdeutscher Verlag, 1984, ISBN 978-3-531-11592-4 , p. 2432ff.
Web links
- Literature by and about Walther Grunwald in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ^ Duchess Anna Amalia Library on the website of the Klassik Stiftung Weimar
- ^ Volker Müller: The Ettersburg Hunting Lane. In: Berliner Zeitung , December 6, 1997
- ↑ Christina Tilmann: The incomprehensible simultaneity. January 23, 1999, accessed April 25, 2019 .
- ↑ Jens Lehnert: Berlin architect Walther Grunwald suggests alternative development of the shooting house area. In: Thüringer Allgemeine , April 1, 2010
- ↑ Political Parties Handbook , 1984, pp. 2432ff.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Grunwald, Walther |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German architect, urban planner and photographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 7, 1938 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Halle (Saale) |