Barbara Schock-Werner

Barbara Schock -Werner, married. Barbara holes ( born July 23, 1947 in Ludwigsburg ) is a German architect, art historian, monument conservationist and high school teacher. From 1999 to 2012 she served as cathedral architect of the Cologne Cathedral.

Career

Schock-Werner attended from 1953 to 1957 the primary school in Bad Cannstatt and completed post-high school girls at the middle school began an apprenticeship as an architectural draftsman and a carpenter and a mason internship. From 1967 she studied at the National Engineering School of Civil Engineering in Stuttgart architecture. During her internship at the Institute for Lightweight Structures, University of Stuttgart in 1969 this was concerned, led by Frei Otto with the planning of the new Olympic Stadium in Munich.

After graduating in 1971 Schock-Werner worked in an architect's office with a focus on conservation. In parallel, she studied art history and history at the University of Stuttgart and Vienna, and finally in 1975 at the University of Bonn. During a nine -month study stay in Alsace she researched the Strasbourg Cathedral; In 1978 the marriage to the art historian Kurt holes ( former Director at the Germanic National Museum in Nuremberg ) and shortly after the birth of two children.

1981 Schock-Werner received his doctorate in art history, her dissertation is entitled " The Strasbourg Cathedral, in the 15th century. Stylistic development and cottage organization of civil - cathedral ". Since 1982, Schock-Werner taught at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg as a lecturer the subjects of art, architecture and design history, 1989, it appointed the Bavarian State Ministry of Sciences, Research and the Arts Honorary Professor. Parallel she held from 1985 to 1991 lectures on architecture at the College of Technology in Stuttgart. Since 1989, she also is on the board of the German Castles Association and since 1995 has been Vice President and was elected president in 2013. From 1992 to 2004 Schock-Werner was chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board of the German Castles Association. and was until September 2013 Chairman of the cathedral architect eV, the European Association of Dombaumeister, Münster builder and overseer. Her successor will succeed here.

From 1992 to 1996 Schock-Werner was a professor at the University of Erlangen- Nuremberg. In the final phase of their habilitation thesis entitled " The buildings in the Bishopric of Würzburg under Julius Real Mespelbrunn 1573-1617, structure, organization, financing and artistic review" she received in 1998 the appointment to the office of the Cologne cathedral architect, she on 1 January 1999 took.

As head of the Cologne Cathedral workshop she managed the total budget of six to seven million euros a year and was supervisor of around 60 employees. As a master builder Schock-Werner was also born member of the Central Cathedral Association in Cologne.

Barbara Schock -Werner took up their retirement on 31 August 2012. As her successor Michael Hauck, previously Dombaumeister was in Passau, selected, took office on 1 September 2012, and as early as April 1, 2012 was her deputy.

On November 23, 2012 Schock-Werner was elected by the General Assembly for new first chairman of the Regional Council of Cologne in the Rhineland club for heritage conservation and landscape protection.

On April 28, 2013, it was chosen as the successor of Alexander zu Sayn -Wittgenstein- Sayn president of the German Castles Association. On December 17, 2013 Schock-Werner was appointed on a proposal from the SPD council group in Cologne City Council as a Qualified resident in the City Development Committee.

Awards

  • 2011: Order of Merit of North Rhine -Westphalia
  • 2012: Mercury Prize Cologne Cologne Tourism and Tourist Information
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