Wulf D. Wagner

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Wulf Dietrich Wagner (born May 10, 1969 in Mannheim ) is a German architectural historian based in Berlin and Palermo. He published mainly on the building and cultural history of East Prussia. His publications on the history of the Königsberg Castle attracted particular attention.

Life

Wagner grew up in Bad Godesberg . Even as a schoolboy, he conducted research on farms and manor houses in Pomerania and East Prussia . After graduating from high school in 1988 and completing military service, he began studying architecture at the University of Karlsruhe in 1989 . In 1995 he moved to Berlin , where he worked as a freelancer in various architecture firms from 1996 to 1998. His diploma thesis, published in Karlsruhe in 1996, dealt with a design for the reconstruction of the Königsberg Cathedral Island in the Russian city of Kaliningrad since 1945 . In 2002 he began his extensive research on Königsberg Castle, which was destroyed in 1968 by order of the Soviet government . In December 2005 he was awarded a doctoral thesis at the Institute of Architectural History at the University of Karlsruhe summa cum laude for Dr.-Ing. PhD. Wagner sees his extensive history of the Königsberg Palace, published in 2008 and 2011, as a contribution to efforts to rebuild the building in Kaliningrad that was blown up in 1968. From 2010 to 2016 he was an associate member of the Board of Directors of the Historical Commission for East and West Prussian State Research . He has lived in Berlin since 1996 and also in Sicily since 2014.

Scientific achievements

From 1998 to 2000 Wagner was involved in a small research project on Brandenburg goods, where he took over the processing of goods in the Dahme-Spreewald district . In 2005 he published a work on the estates in the Heiligenbeil district . In 2008 and 2009 it was published under the title Culture in Rural East Prussia. History, goods and people in the Gerdauen district on more than 1,300 pages an extensive presentation of the architectural and cultural history of the Gerdauen district and its manor districts. In 2014, he published an extensive history of the Truntlack manor in the former Gerdauen district in a two-volume monograph.

So far, Wagner has received the greatest attention in specialist circles for his presentation of the history of the Königsberg Castle, published in two volumes in 2008 and 2011, with the archaeologist Heinrich Lange co-authoring the second volume . The work is based on an extensive source research. Wagner tries to integrate the building history of the castle into the context of the general history of East Prussia by always combining the "architectural development of the castle [...] with the major events of (East) Prussian history and small events within its walls". In his review, Christof Baier emphasizes, in addition to the extensive research of sources, which revealed an impressive material base, a brilliant reproduction of the numerous illustrations and an extensive bibliography as well as a carefully compiled index of persons, places and subjects. In addition, Baier notes that Wagner not only devotes himself to the building history, but also to the detailed history of the building's use.

Works

  • Stops on a coronation journey. Castles and manor houses in East Prussia. Exhibition catalog . Berlin 2001.
  • The goods of the district of Heiligenbeil in East Prussia . Leer 2005.
  • Culture in rural East Prussia. People, history and goods in the Gerdauen district , 2 volumes. Husum 2008/2009.
  • The Königsberg Castle, vol. 1: From the foundation to the government of Friedrich Wilhelm I .: (1255–1740) . Regensburg 2008.
  • with Heinrich Lange: The Königsberg Castle, Vol. 2: From Frederick the Great to the Demolition: (1740–1967 / 68); The fate of its collections after 1945 . Regensburg 2011.
  • East Prussia in 1000 pictures . Regenstauf 2012.
  • The manor Truntlack 1446–1945 , 2 volumes. Husum 2014.
  • Residential landscapes. Trips to the ducal, electoral and royal hunting lodges and pleasure houses in Prussia . Conference reports of the Historical Commission for East and West Prussian State Research, Vol. 29 (2016): Prussia and Prussia - Polycentricity in Central State 1525–1945, pp. 299–358.
  • "Handbook of East Prussian Goods" - an interim report . Preußenland 7 (2016), pp. 62-104.
  • The ancient society Prussia. Insights into a century of history, archeology and museums in East Prussia (1844–1945) . Husum Verlag 2019, ISBN 978-3-89876-985-3 .

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dissertation: The Königsberg Castle - a building and cultural history
  2. ^ Website of the Historical Commission for East and West Prussian State Research
  3. ^ Wagner in the foreword to The Königsberg Castle. A History of Building and Culture , Volume 1, Page 14
  4. ↑ Christof Baier: Review in "sehepunkte", Edition 11 (2011), No. 10
personal data
SURNAME Wagner, Wulf D.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wagner, Wulf Dietrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architectural historian
DATE OF BIRTH May 10, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim