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DPhil Arne Winkelmann, born 1969 in Ludwigshafen is a historian of architecture,
publicizer and curator. After studying architecture in Weimar and Krakow
he worked for BauNetz online service in Berlin. In 2004 he received
a doctorate from the Chair of Preserving Monuments at the Bauhaus University
in Weimar about the architecture of socialist modernism. ("The Pioneer
Camp Artek. Reality and Utopia in Soviet Architecture of the 1960's").
2006 he gained another doctorate from the Chair of Cultural Studies
at the Humboldt University of Berlin ("Culture Factories. Changing Symbol
of the Factory in Free Cultural Activities). He worked at the German
Architecture Museum in Frankfurt and has taught as a part-time lecturer
at the University of Applied Science in Mannheim and the University
of Cologne. Since 2007 he works as a free lance curator and publicizer
with Kuratorenwerkstatt Förster Gräwe Winkelmann and as a lecturer in
museum education of the German Architecture Museum.
Contact: arnewinkelmann(at)hotmail.com |
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Winkelmann works for year about the architecture of children's holiday
camps. In his dissertation about the children pioneer camp Artek on
the Crimean peninsula he analyzed the entanglement of architecture and
ideology as well as the attempt of educating by means of architecture.
Since 2004 together with the architect Florian Kirfel he visited these
mostly ruined children holiday camps of Fascist Italy and recorded it
with photos. The photos of 41 of these colonie can be seen under the
listed camps on this webpage. In 2006 Arne Winkelmann got to know the
British Photographer Dan Dubowitz who shot a professional series of
Colonie. From this cooperation the evolved the photo catalogue "Fascismo
abbandonato. The Children's Colonie of Mussolini's Italy" and some exhibitions
as at the British School in Rome and the Documentation Center Prora.
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