»Drawn to the unique profile of the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar«, artist and architect Mona Mahall accepted the Professorship of Presentation Methodology in Design at the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism.

Auf der Mitgliederversammlung der Bauhaus Weiterbildungsakademie Weimar (WBA) wurde Ende Mai 2022 ein neuer Vorstand gewählt. Für weitere zwei Jahre wurden Gudrun Kopf, Dezernentin für Studium und Lehre, Dr. Susanne Kirchmeyer, Leiterin des Sprachenzentrums, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Uwe Plank-Wiedenbeck, Dekan der Fakultät Bauingenieurwesen, und Prof. Dr.-Ing. Horst-Michael Ludwig, Prodekan Forschung an der Fakultät Bauingenieurwesen, im Amt bestätigt.

Digitalisation permeates all areas of society – from work to leisure, health care to climate research, education to entertainment. Researchers from the Faculty of Media are using innovative methods to explore the requirements and effects of this development.

The MDR Broadcasting Council elected a new Administrative Council for the public broadcaster during its meeting on 16 May 2022 The MDR Board of Directors has ten members in total: four from Saxony, three from Saxony-Anhalt and three from Thuringia.

Das Kolloquium »Kontroversen« wird am 3. und 4. Juni 2022 zu Ehren von Prof. Hans-Rudolf Meier, seit 2008 Professor für Denkmalpflege und Baugeschichte an der Fakultät Architektur und Urbanistik, stattfinden.

Today, Wednesday, 6 April 2022, the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar University Assembly elected Prof. Dr. Jutta Emes as Interim President of the university. Prof. Emes has been carrying out the responsibilities of University President for the last six weeks in her role as the Presidium’s interim President. Interim President is an independent position provided for in the Thuringian Higher Education Act (ThürHG) and is elected to take over duties during the period between when a President leaves office and a new President is elected. The election requires a professorial majority vote from professors belonging to the University Assembly.

Ende 1999 wurde Prof. Dr.-Ing. Hans-Joachim Bargstädt an die Bauhaus-Universität Weimar berufen. Nach über 22 Jahren Lehr- und Forschungstätigkeit an der Fakultät Bauingenieurwesen übergab der Universitätsprofessor am 05. April 2022 den Staffelstab offiziel an seinen Nachfolger Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jürgen Melzner. Im Interview mit Dana Höftmann lässt er die vergangenen Jahre Revue passieren und blickt auf seine persönliche und fachliche Zukunft.

Since February 2022, Prof. Dr. Björn Rüffer has held the Professorship of Applied Mathematics at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. After having worked in Germany, Great Britain and Australia, the doctor in mathematics succeeds senior professor Klaus Gürlebeck. The professorship is based in the Faculties of Civil Engineering and Media and is instrumental in the basic education of Weimar’s engineering and computer science programmes.

University President Professor Speitkamp bid farewell to his colleagues and the students of the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar with a reception at the Bauhaus.Atelier on Thursday, 17 February 2022. The afternoon event, organised in compliance with corona regulations, brought together many members of the university who had not seen one another in a long time. Guests visibly enjoyed the in-person event and used the time to chat and say goodbye to Professor Speitkamp. They reflected together on what the President had achieved and wished him all the best in his new position as State Secretary in the Ministry of Education. He will take office on Tuesday, 22 February 2022.

Prof. Dr. Winfried Speitkamp, President of the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, has been asked by Thuringia’s Minister President Bodo Ramelow and Minister of Education Helmut Holter to take up the position of State Secretary in the Thuringian Ministerium für Bildung, Jugend und Sport. Prof. Speitkamp has accepted this offer and will take on this high-ranking position starting on 22 February 2022.

Der neue Rundfunkrat des Mitteldeutschen Rundfunks (MDR) ist am Montag, 31. Januar 2022, erstmals zusammengetreten. Dr. Christopher Buschow, Juniorprofessor für Organisation und vernetzte Medien an der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, ist neues Mitglied des Gremiums, das den gesetzlichen Programmauftrag des MDR überwacht und kontrolliert.

In the session on Tuesday, 25 January 2022, the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar University Council elected a new chair: Dr. Thomas Rabe, chair and CEO of Bertelsmann SE & Co. KGaA, Gütersloh, is, effective immediately, chair of the Council.

Following the immense success of his inaugural lecture in November, Bauhaus-Guest Professor Diébédo Francis Kéré, together with Bauhaus-Universität Weimar students, will be focussing in depth on the topic of »Participatory Architecture« this January.

Urban planner and architect Dr.-Ing. Dorothee Rummel was appointed junior professor for »Stadt Raum Entwerfen« on 6 January 2022. Prior to her appointment, she worked for eleven years as a scientific staff member at the department of Sustainable Urbanism within the Department of Architecture at the Technical University of Munich.

Ein unter Beachtung aller Hygienemaßnahmen gut gefülltes Audimax erwartete Prof. Diébédo Francis Kéré am Mittwoch, 10. November 2021, zur Antrittsvorlesung seiner Bauhaus-Gastprofessur. Prof. Kéré gab lebhafte Einblicke in sein eigenes Schaffen als Architekt und forderte das überwiegend studentische Publikum dazu auf, mutig zu sein, eigene Ideen zu verfolgen und durchzuhalten, sollte es mal Schwierigkeiten geben.

The university has lost a highly esteemed colleague and committed lecturer, an »aesthete and aesthetician, architectural theorist, and impresario,« as he called himself.

The Bauhaus guest professorship has been newly filled on an annual basis since 2018; for the 2021/2022 winter semester, the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar is very pleased to welcome the architect, Prof. Diébédo Francis Kéré. His expertise in both ecologically and socially sustainable architecture will inspire and influence the lectures and workshops within the scope of the Bauhaus guest professorship.

On 1 September, Dr. Birgit Wudtke was appointed Professor of Photography at the Faculty of Art and Design. She is successor to emeritus Hermann Stamm.

The Faculty of Art and Design has a new staff member: Jens Höland took over as head of the metal workshop on 16 April 2021. We talked to him about his new job.

Prof. Danica Dakić, professor of Freie Kunst in the Faculty of Art and Design at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, has been honoured with the most important art prize in Germany: the Deutschen Akademie Rom Villa Massimo Rome Prize. At the end of June, Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media Monika Grütters presented the scholarships for 2022/23 residencies at the Deutschen Akademie Rom Villa Massimo and Casa Baldi, which are supported by the German government, as well as residencies at the Deutschen Studienzentrum in Venice.