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bauhaus facesHfG ULM | Martin MänteleBONUS EPISODE 1 – ENGLISH
In this bonus episode you will hear the original interview with Martin Mäntele, head of the HfG Ulm Archive, and bauhaus faces.
Hear how Max Bill played a central role in the founding and first years of the HfG Ulm, the Ulm School of Design – and how it evolved without him. And listen to us talking about the design icons of the HfG: the Ulm stool, the Braun radio “Snow White’s coffin” and the stackable tableware TC 100. And so much more ...
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2025-08-231h 12
bauhaus facesMAX BILL | Angela Thomas, Erich Schmid & Martin Mäntele"Bill always said that he also went to the Bauhaus to find clarity. And that is a process. You don't just have clarity, you have to earn it."
For this brand-new episode, I travelled to Zumikon to visit Angela Thomas and Erich Schmid in their house - Haus Bill. This house, which looks somehow unremarkable from the outside but is amazingly light, open, and welcoming and on the inside, was built by the Swiss architect and designer Max Bill in 1967–68. His second wife and widow, Angela Thomas, lives there today with her husband, the filmmaker Erich Schmid, who made a...
2025-08-181h 14
bauhaus facesPAUL KLEE | Fabienne Eggelhöfer
In this episode you will hear the first result of my tour to Switzerland back in May. One of my stops was at Zentrum Paul Klee in Berne to interview Fabienne Eggelhöfer, chief curator of the ZPK.
Paul Klee created so much art during his lifetime – in his last year of life alone 1.253 works. Exhibitions of his work are still a huge audience magnet. He is today one of the best-known artists of the Bauhaus. But his career had started much earlier than with his appointment as Bauhaus master; he had lived a full life before.
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2025-07-2558 min
ART ASKBauhaus Faces - Learning from the legacy with Anja GuttenbergerMy next guest is an incredibly inspiring researcher, author, editor and curator — a true Bauhaus specialist collaborating with institutions dedicated to preserving and exploring the Bauhaus legacy.I’m talking about Anja Guttenberger, who studied art history as well as English and Spanish philology in Freiburg, Leipzig and Berlin. In 2011, she earned her PhD from Freie Universität Berlin, with a dissertation closely connected to the Bauhaus.Since 2007, she has been working independently, delving deep into the history and legacy of the Bauhaus. She’s held countless curatorial, editorial and research roles — and to me, she’s tru...
2025-07-0849 min
bauhaus facesPART 3 HANNES MEYER | Raquel Franklin
We have ended part 2 with Hannes Meyer leaving the Soviet Union to go and help build a socialist republic in Spain which was interrupted by the Franco coup and left Meyer in limbo in his home country, Switzerland. Here, he married Lena Bergner in 1937 – they already had a daughter, Lilo, back then. In 1938 to 1939 Hannes Meyer built the orphanage Mümliswil, which I have discussed more extensively at the end of part 2.
In this new episode I have invited the Mexican art-historian Raquel Franklin to talk about Meyer’s next and last emigration to Mexico between 1938 and 1949, about...
2025-06-161h 11
bauhaus facesPART 2 HANNES MEYER | Tatiana Efrussi
In August 1930, Hannes Meyer was dismissed from the Bauhaus amid rising communist activism and his inability to control it. A 1931 caricature by Adolf Hofmeister humorously captures Meyer clutching the hammer and sickle, symbolizing his unwavering commitment to socialism. Despite his departure, Meyer’s Bauhaus legacy endures in photographs and memories, but his true passion was always for the revolutionary proletariat cause.
Shortly after leaving Germany, Meyer declared in a 1930 Pravda interview his conviction that architecture must serve socialism, prompting his move to the Soviet Union. There, from 1930 to 1936, he immersed himself in numerous projects that embodied his vi...
2025-05-261h 00
bauhaus facesPART 1 HANNES MEYER | Dara Kiese & Thomas Flierl
In this new episode of “bauhaus faces” we talk about Hannes Meyer, the second Bauhaus director.
PART 1 concentrates on Hannes Meyer’s formative years and his involvement in cooperativism and collectivism, his first steps as architect and artist, and then on to his pivotal role at the Bauhaus in Dessau. What was new when he became second director of the Bauhaus? And why did he have to leave the Bauhaus all at once after two successful years?
The US-American art-historian Dara Kiese, who wrote her PhD thesis about Hannes Meyer’s holistic education at the Bauhaus...
2025-05-101h 00
bauhaus facesPART 2 LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE | Aya Soika
This is PART 2 of the Podcast episode about Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. It puts a magnifying glass over a specific period of time in Mies’s life: his commissions for the Nazis after the Bauhaus had closed in July 1933 and his final emigration to the US in 1938.
For this episode, the art-historian Aya Soika shares her expertise. She published a book about this time of Mies’s life with the title „Mies van der Rohe in the Third Reich. The Brussels Project, 1934" (link in the show notes). Aya Soika doesn’t denounce Mies van der Rohe for his...
2025-04-1350 min
bauhaus facesPART 1 LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE | Wita Noack & Fritz Neumeyer
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886–1969) was a pioneering modernist architect. Born in Aachen, he started as a bricklayer before moving to Berlin, where he worked for Bruno Paul and Peter Behrens. His first major commission, the Riehl House (1907), showed early signs of modernism. In 1921, he changed his name, marking his shift to modern architecture while maintaining classical influences.
As vice president of the German Werkbund, he led the Die Wohnung exhibition (1927), cementing his reputation. In 1930, he became Bauhaus director, striving to protect it from Nazi repression. After the school closed in 1933, Mies attempted to continue working in Ge...
2025-04-041h 13
bauhaus facesBONUS LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE | Wita NoackBONUS EPISODE 1 – DEUTSCH
In der ersten Bonusfolge zum eigentlichen Podcast über Ludwig Mies van der Rohe spricht Wita Noack, seit über 30 Jahren Leiterin des Mies van der Rohe Hauses in Berlin mit Sitz im ehemaligen Haus Lemke. Diese Folge enthält Zusatzmaterial, das im englischen Podcast nicht enthalten.
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2025-04-0439 min
bauhaus facesBONUS LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE | Fritz NeumeyerBONUS EPISODE 2 – DEUTSCH
In der zweiten Bonusfolge zum eigentlichen Podcast über Ludwig Mies van der Rohe spricht Fritz Neumeyer, promovierter Architekt und Mies-Forscher. Diese Folge enthält Zusatzmaterial, das im englischen Podcast nicht enthalten ist.
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2025-04-0452 min
bauhaus facesMICHIKO & IWAO YAMAWAKI | Mariko Takagi & Helena Čapková
This episode is dedicated to a Japanese couple who went all the way to Germany to study at the Bauhaus in Dessau: Iwao and Michiko Yamawaki. When they met each other in 1928 Iwao Fujita had already studied architecture in Tokyo and was also actively involved in the theatre. Michiko came from a very wealthy family and was a culturally educated young woman of 18 years. By marrying into the Yamawaki family Iwao profited from their wealth. He happily took on Michiko’s family name in exchange for a World trip with that one final destination: the Bauhaus in Dessau.
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2025-02-141h 06
bauhaus facesFRITZ KUHR | Ute Famulla
This brand-new episode of "bauhaus faces" is about a rather unknown Bauhausler: Fritz Kuhr. Although he was at the Bauhaus for roughly 7 years he is widely unknown. Kuhr was the student spokesperson of the Bauhaus Master Council, part of the infamous Bauhaus band, helped edit and produce the Bauhaus publications with Ernst Kállai and had a connection to the communists at the Bauhaus. After leaving the Bauhaus in 1930 Kuhr moved to Berlin and tried to make a living as a freelance artist. He was internationally represented by the gallery Ferdinand Möller and though he seemingly was a ri...
2025-01-1353 min
bauhaus facesANNI & JOSEF ALBERS | Brenda Danilowitz
🎙️ In the latest episode of “bauhaus faces,” we dive into the remarkable story of another iconic Bauhaus couple: Anni and Josef Albers. Their lives and legacies are deeply intertwined— from their first meeting in 1922 in Weimar to their lasting impact on art, design, and education in the US.
Anni, who would later shortly lead the weaving workshop at the Bauhaus and then at Black Mountain College, and Josef, a visionary "young master" of the preliminary course, fled Nazi persecution in 1933. In the U.S., they helped shape the Black Mountain College and continued to innovate—An...
2024-12-061h 01
bauhaus facesISE GROPIUS | Jana Revedin
This episode of "bauhaus faces“ is not about a typical Bauhäusler, not a student or a master. She nevertheless played crucial part in documenting the history of the Bauhaus between 1923 and 1928 in her diary. Of course she was also Walter Gropius’s closest confidant, advisor, and editor, his wife, Ise Gropius.
Ilse Frank was raised in Hannover and worked as a Red Cross Nurse during World War I. She moved to Munich in 1922 to work at a publishing house. When her mother was dying Ilse returned to Hannover in 1923. Here she met Walter Gropius at one of hi...
2024-12-0641 min
bauhaus facesPIUS PAHL | Peter-Jan & Tyll Pahl
This episode of bauhaus faces is about the Bauhaus educated architect Pius Pahl. After being trained as carpenter and interior designer, he decided it was time to go to the Bauhaus and become an architect. He studied with Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Ludwig Hilberseimer, who would both become essential for his approach towards designing buildings. Pius Pahl is also one of the students who made the Bauhaus move from Dessau to Berlin. After successfully graduating with his Bauhaus diploma in 1933 he went on a journey to Switzerland, Italy and North Africa before starting to work in different a...
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bauhaus facesLUCIA MOHOLY | Robin Schuldenfrei
This episode of bauhaus faces is about a photographer that most Bauhaus fans today know: Lucia Moholy. She was the photographer who delivered the photos of the Bauhaus in Dessau and its masters’ houses that made the art school so iconic. But it wasn’t until the 1990s that art historians became alert to her when her photos and negatives made their way into the Bauhaus-Archive in Berlin. Until then they had taken a long reroute from Germany via the US, while Lucia Moholy had thought they were lost, when in fact Bauhaus founder and first director Walter Gropius had ta...
2024-09-2346 min
bauhaus facesETEL & ERSNT MITTAG | Michael Mittag
This episode is not about just one Bauhaus person, but about two. It’s the premiere of our first episode about a Bauhaus couple: Etel and Ernst Mittag, who were both students at the Bauhaus in Dessau, met there, fell in love, got married, had children and emigrated to South Africa when Etel – as a Jew – was in great danger in Europe.
About her time at the Bauhaus from 1928 to 1930 Etel later wrote in her autobiography: “This was a new world for me. Everything was completely different from what I knew. Nothing was taken for grante...
2024-09-0653 min
bauhaus facesGUNTA STÖLZL | Monika Stadler & Mirjam Deckers
This episode is dedicated to the Bauhaus master Gunta Stölzl, one of the few better-known Bauhaus women.
We have already mentioned her name in the previous podcast about Stölzl’s first husband, the Israeli architect Arieh Sharon. They had a daughter, Yael, what was born in 1929, do you remember? And Ariel Aloni, my interview partner for that episode is also Gunta Stölzl’s grandson.
My interview partners for today’s episode are Gunta Stölzl’s younger daughter, Monika Stadler (who shares with us her personal view on her mother’s work) and the Dutch ar...
2024-08-041h 02
bauhaus facesARIEH SHARON | Ariel Aloni
This time I talked to Ariel Aloni. He is a grandson of even two Bauhaus students: the architect, Arieh Sharon, probably the most famous Israeli architect, and the Bauhaus weaver Gunta Stölzl, the only woman who was successful in becoming a Bauhaus master.
As Ariel says: “There was no conversation with Sharon without the Bauhaus popping up!” And that is also true to his architecture. In his buildings in Israel and Nigeria Sharon still refers to what he had learned from Hannes Meyer and Hans Wittwer at the Bauhaus, and then elevated the concept by adapting to the climatic condit...
2024-06-0450 min
bauhaus facesOTTI BERGER | Judith Raum
This time we will hear textile researcher and artist Judith Raum talk about the Hungarian Bauhaus weaver Otti Berger. Otti’s story is one full of life, happiness, ambition, talent, and a prosperous future. There were so many things for her in the cards. But her life ended tragically and abruptly when she was deported to the concentration camp Auschwitz on 29 May 1944 and was murdered there shortly after. What’s left are letters and postcards, and patents for some of her innovative fabrics.
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2024-05-0245 min
bauhaus facesT. LUX FEININGER | T. Lux & Conrad Feininger
This time I am going to talk about one of the most brilliant photographers of the Bauhaus, T. Lux Feininger. As the youngest son of the renowned German US-American painter Lyonel Feininger he is the only Bauhausler who both grew up at the Bauhaus and later became a Bauhaus student – as the only offspring of a Bauhaus master and with his 16,5 years the youngest ever student at the Bauhaus.
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Vita https://www.kunst-archive.net/en/wvz/t_lux_feininger/vita) List of works https://www.kunst-archive.net/en/wvz/t_lux_feininger/works Texts by...
2024-04-0148 min
bauhaus facesTrailer | Anja Guttenberger
The new "bauhaus faces" podcast is dedicated to the fascinating life stories of students and teachers of the legendary and infamous Bauhaus art school. Each episode will highlight a unique Bauhaus personality. With the help of their descendants, of researchers, and authors I will navigate you through each personal Bauhaus story.
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KNTXT – Bernauer Stadtgespräche#17 Bauhaus Denkmal Bundesschule V: Sanierung (2002–14) TEIL 1Für die 17. Folge von KNTXT – Bernauer Stadtgespräche war Anja Guttenberger zu Gast bei Brenne Architekten in Berlin. Sie planten und leiteten die Sanierung und Teilrekonstruktion der ehemaligen Bundesschule und der Lehrerhäuser. Im ersten Teil des Gespräches mit Winfried Brenne und Franz Jaschke erzählen die Architekten, wie sie zu Experten für die Sanierung von Bauten der Moderne wurden, wie ihr Eindruck war, als sie die Bundesschule zum ersten Mal betreten haben und welche verblüffenden Entdeckungen sie während der Sanierung machten. Mit dieser Folge machen wir einen Zeitsprung in der Serie Bauhaus Denkmal Bundesschul...
2021-11-0846 minKNTXT – Bernauer Stadtgespräche#08 Bauhaus Denkmal Bundesschule I (1928-33)Mit der 8. Folge unseres Bernau-Podcasts startet unsere erste Podcast-Serie: Bauhaus Denkmal Bundesschule. Bis zur Eröffnung des Bauhaus-Besucherzentrums im Herbst 2021 führen wir Gespräche mit Experten zur über 90-jährigen Bau- und Nutzungsgeschichte des Bauhausensembles, um so abschließend einen optimalen Überblick über alle Epochen zu haben. Im 1. Teil erzählt Anja Guttenberger, zukünftige Leiterin des Besucherzentrums, wieso die ehemalige ADGB-Bundesschule in Bernau entstand und warum sie gerade vom Bauhaus gebaut wurde.
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Die Filmliste der ADGB-Bundesschule Bernau aus dem Jahr 1...
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KNTXT – Bernauer Stadtgespräche#01 PilotfolgeIn der Pilotfolge von KNTXT – Bernauer Stadtgespräche stellen sich Anja Guttenberger und Frederiek Weda vor: Woher kommen sie? Was tun sie in Bernau? Und warum wollen sie eigentlich diesen Podcast machen?
Alle Wege führen nach ... Bernau: Frederiek kommt ursprünglich aus den Niederlanden. Sie hat es in die Kleinstadt Bernau eher zufällig verschlagen. Anja wuchs hier auf und fühlt sich nach einigen Umwegen am Bauhaus Denkmal Bernau endlich wieder „Zuhause angekommen“.
Im zweiten Teil der Pilotfolge wird ein Einblick in die Geschichte des Bauhauses in Bernau gegeben und darin, was die Arbeitsinhalt...
2021-02-211h 11