Wolfgang Kil

Wolfgang Kil (born December 9, 1948 in Berlin ) is a German architect , architecture critic and publicist . In his works, Kil predominantly deals with the disappearance of architecture from the time of the GDR and the handling of cities and regions that are suffering from population loss. Kil campaigned against the demolition of the Kurhaus in Ahrenshoop . He critically observes the structural development of Berlin in various weekly and daily newspapers.

Life

Kil studied architecture at the Weimar University of Architecture and Construction between 1967 and 1972 . From 1972 to 1978 he was employed as an architect at the Berlin Housing Combine. From 1978 to 1982 Kil was the editor-in-chief of the specialist magazine “Farbe und Raum” at Verlag für Bauwesen Berlin . From 1982 to 1992 Kil worked as a freelance critic, publicist and exhibition organizer. From 1992 to 1994 he was an editor at Bauwelt magazine in Berlin. He has been a freelance critic and publicist since 1994.

Awards

• 1993 Journalism Prize from the Federal Chamber of Architects
• 1997 BDA award for architectural criticism
• since 1998 member of the Saxon Academy of the Arts
• 2001 Journalism Prize from the Federal Chamber of Architects
• 2002 Journalist Prize from the Märkischer Press and Business Club Berlin
• 2009 Guest of Honor Scholarship from the Berlin Senate in the Künstlerhaus Lukas, Ahrenshoop

Publications

• Wolfgang Hänsch - Architect of Dresden Modernism. Form + Zweck publishing house, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-935053-22-8 .
• The miracle of Leinefelde. A city is reinventing itself. Sandstein-Verlag, Dresden 2008, ISBN 978-3-937602-94-3 .
• Factory settlements - residential form of the industrial age. (Catalog of the IBA, Fürst-Pückler-Land, Lausitz time machine). Verlag der Kunst, Dresden 2003.
• Luxury of emptiness. Verlag Müller + Busmann KG, Wuppertal 2004, ISBN 3-928766-60-0 .
• Exemplary. Architecture Prize Rhineland-Palatinate 2001. Published on behalf of the Chamber of Architects Rhineland-Palatinate, Mainz 2001, ISBN 3-927517-18-6 .
• New landscape. Saxony. Verlag der Kunst, Dresden 2001, ISBN 978-3-86530-034-8 .
• Founder's paradise: building in times of transition. Verlag für Bauwesen Berlin, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-345-00747-9 .
• Land without transition. Germany's new frontier. Ex-pose Verlag, Berlin 1992.
• Legacy and a new beginning. Photographs from Dresden, Leipzig and Berlin in the years after 1945. Fotokina-Verlag, Leipzig 1989.

Movies

• Building in divided Berlin - competition in stone and concrete. Documentary, Germany, 2015, 44:30 min., Script and direction: Reinhard Schneider , production: rbb , first broadcast: October 20, 2015 on rbb, summary by rbb, in conversation with Wolfgang Kil.
• You are responsible for the momentum. Documentary, Germany, 58 min., Year of production: 2002, year of publication: 2006, script and director: Margarete Fuchs, film data ( memento from October 5, 2008 in the Internet Archive ), with Wolfgang Kil in conversation about Ulrich Müther's buildings.

Web links

• wolfgang-kil.de
• Wolfgang Kil: There is no building culture without a culture of dismantling. ( Memento of January 12, 2011 in the Internet Archive ). In: Brandenburg State Center for Political Education , October 24, 2005

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Film page of «You are responsible for the swing»