Short CV
Art and architectural historian, born in Stuttgart, 1982-1988 studied art history, modern history and didactics of the arts at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU), 1988 Magister Artium (Das Lustschlösschen Favorite in Ludwigsburg), 1989-1992 stay in Lombardy, Italy, 1992 doctorate ("Studies on Erich Mendelsohn's department stores and commercial buildings in Germany"), LMU Munich.
1992-1999 research assistant at Staatliche Schlösser und Gärten Baden-Württemberg and Staatanzeiger für Baden-Württemberg GmbH, Stuttgart, and freelancer. 1994-1999 lecturer at the University of Stuttgart, 2000-2008 postdoc at TU Darmstadt, specialising in the history and theory of architecture, habilitation and venia legendi for the history and theory of architecture in 2011.
Since 2008 Professor of History of Architecture and Urban Planning at Mainz University of Applied Sciences and Vice-Director of the Institute of Architecture, AI MAINZ, at Mainz University of Applied Sciences,.
Since 2009 Expert member of the Rhineland-Palatinate State Advisory Board on Monuments, 2013-2015 Member of the jury for the Rhineland-Palatinate Savings Bank Monument Prize. 2014 selection jury 60 years BDA Rhineland-Palatinate
2013-2019 Expert member of the Advisory Board for the project White City Tel Aviv, Development of the Centre for the Preservation of Monuments in the Max Liebling House, Tel Aviv, Israel, appointed by the German Federal Ministry BMVBS.
2014-2021 expert member of the Advisory Board for the World Heritage nomination "Künstlerkolonie Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt", since the successful inscription in 2021 renamed World Heritage Advisory Board, appointed by the City of Darmstadt. Author of the chapter History of the Site Mathildenhöhe in the Nomination file.
2017 member of the Independent Commission of Historians (UHK) "Planning and Building in National Socialism. Prerequisites, Institutions, Effects", appointed by the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety (BMUB), since 2021 Federal Ministry of Housing, Urban Development and Building (BMWSB), and Co-Editor of the four volume Publication of its results. Coordinator of the exhibition Macht Raum Gewalt (Power Space Violence) in the Berlin Academy of Arts on Pariser Platz, 2023.
2021 together with Jörg Haspel initiator and founder of the Erich Mendelsohn Initiative. Prepartations for a transnational nomination of selected Mendelsohn buildings for the UNESCO World Heritage List (participating countries: D, PL, CZ, N, UK, IL, USA), together with ICOMOS Germany and the Berlin-Brandenburg Chamber of Architects conception and organisation of the international Mendelsohn Symposium in Berlin March 2022.
Member of the National Committee of ICOMOS Germany.