Short CV
Art and architecture historian, born in Stuttgart, 1982–1988 studied art history, modern history and art education at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU), 1988 Master of Arts (Das Lustschlösschen Favorite in Ludwigsburg), 1989-1992 Stay in Lombardy, Italy, 1992 Doctorate (‘Studies on Erich Mendelsohn's commercial and office buildings in Germany’), LMU.
1992-1999 Research assistant and freelancer for the State Palaces and Gardens of Baden-Württemberg and the Staatanzeiger für Baden-Württemberg GmbH, Stuttgart
1994-1999 Lecturer at the University of Stuttgart
2000-2008 Postdoc at TU Darmstadt in the field of history and theory of architecture, habilitation and venia legendi for history and theory of architecture in 2011
Since 2008 Professor of Architecture and Urban History at Mainz University of Applied Sciences, together with Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Emil Hädler and, since 2017, with Prof. Dr. Piotr Kuroczynski Head of the Architecture Institute at Mainz University of Applied Sciences, AI MAINZ
Appointments and initiatives
• Since 2009 Expert member of the Rhineland-Palatinate State Monument Advisory Board
• 2013-2019 Expert member of the Advisory Board for the BMVBS flagship project White City Tel Aviv, establishment of a monument preservation centre
• Since 2014 Expert member of the Advisory Board for the World Heritage nomination ‘Artists' Colony Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt’, renamed World Heritage Advisory Board in 2022
• 2017-2023 Member of the Independent Commission of Historians (UHK) ‘Planning and Building under National Socialism. Prerequisites, Institutions, Effects’ of the BMUB, since 2021 Federal Ministry of Housing, Urban Development and Construction (BMWSB)
• 2021 Together with Jörg Haspel, initiator of the Erich Mendelsohn Initiative for the transnational nomination of selected Mendelsohn buildings for the UNESCO World Heritage List
• 2025 Appointment to the Design and Monument Advisory Board of the City of Wiesbaden
Curator of several exhibitions, including:
• 2000-2013 Erich Mendelsohn – Dynamics and Function (travelling exhibition, ifa Stuttgart)
• 2008 Theo Pabst – Architecture in Continuum Across All Times, Kunsthalle Darmstadt
• 2010 Joseph Maria Olbrich – Architect and Designer of Early Modernism at the Mathildenhöhe Institute, Darmstadt, and Museum Leopold Vienna
• 2016 Friedrich Pützer – Buildings and Projects, Landesmuseum Mainz,
• 2019 More than Bauhaus – The Architecture of the White City Tel Aviv, Mainz, Hanover, Braunschweig.
• 2022-2023 Coordinator of the UHK for the exhibition Macht Raum Gewalt (Power Makes Space Violence). Planning and Building under National Socialism at the Academy of Arts, Berlin
Art and architecture historian, born in Stuttgart, 1982–1988 studied art history, modern history and art education at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU), 1988 Master of Arts (Das Lustschlösschen Favorite in Ludwigsburg), 1989-1992 Stay in Lombardy, Italy, 1992 Doctorate (‘Studies on Erich Mendelsohn's commercial and office buildings in Germany’), LMU.
1992-1999 Research assistant and freelancer for the State Palaces and Gardens of Baden-Württemberg and the Staatanzeiger für Baden-Württemberg GmbH, Stuttgart,
1994-1999 Lecturer at the University of Stuttgart,
2000-2008 Postdoc at TU Darmstadt in the field of history and theory of architecture, habilitation and venia legendi for history and theory of architecture in 2011.
Since 2008 Professor of Architecture and Urban History at Mainz University of Applied Sciences, together with Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Emil Hädler and, since 2017, with Prof. Dr. Piotr Kuroczynski Head of the Architecture Institute at Mainz University of Applied Sciences, AI MAINZ
Appointments and initiatives
• Since 2009 Expert member of the Rhineland-Palatinate State Monument Advisory Board
• 2013-2019 Expert member of the Advisory Board for the BMVBS flagship project White City Tel Aviv, establishment of a monument preservation centre.
• Since 2014 Expert member of the Advisory Board for the World Heritage nomination ‘Artists' Colony Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt’, renamed World Heritage Advisory Board in 2022.
• 2017-2023 Member of the Independent Commission of Historians (UHK) ‘Planning and Building under National Socialism. Prerequisites, Institutions, Effects’ of the BMUB, since 2021 Federal Ministry of Housing, Urban Development and Construction (BMWSB).
• 2021 Together with Jörg Haspel, initiator of the Erich Mendelsohn Initiative for the transnational nomination of selected Mendelsohn buildings for the UNESCO World Heritage List.
• 2025 Appointment to the Design and Monument Advisory Board of the City of Wiesbaden.
Curator of several exhibitions, including:
• 2000-2013 Erich Mendelsohn – Dynamics and Function (travelling exhibition, ifa Stuttgart)
• 2008 Theo Pabst – Architecture in Continuum Across All Times, Kunsthalle Darmstadt
• 2010 Joseph Maria Olbrich – Architect and Designer of Early Modernism at the Mathildenhöhe Institute, Darmstadt, and Museum Leopold Vienna
• 2016 Friedrich Pützer – Buildings and Projects, Landesmuseum Mainz,
• 2019 More than Bauhaus – The Architecture of the White City Tel Aviv, Mainz, Hanover, Braunschweig.
• 2022-2023 Coordinator of the UHK for the exhibition Macht Raum Gewalt (Power Makes Space Violence). Planning and Building under National Socialism at the Academy of Arts, Berlin.
Memberships
Memberships
German Association of Designers
German Werkbund
German Association for Art History (Deutscher Verband für Kunstgeschichte)
German National Committee of ICOMOS
Erich Mendelsohn Initiative