3. - Schlösser-Magazin

team at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of
Sciences in Berlin.
Studied German, English and Education at
Humboldt University in Berlin, obtaining
his first doctor’s degree in 1983, and his
second in 2007 at the Technical University
of Berlin. 1983-2000 research fellow at HU
Berlin. Visiting researcher/guest lecturer at:
University of Budapest (ELTE), University of
Vienna, University of Klagenfurt, University
of Wisconsin, Madison, Dumbarton Oaks
(Harvard), Washington, D.C., University of
Massachusetts Amherst.
Co-opted in 2005 into the collaborative
research on Transformations of Antiquity at
HU Berlin. Lecturer at TU Berlin. 2000-2005
Scientific Advisory Council. Since 2005 board
member of Pückler Gesellschaft e.V., Society
for Preserving and Researching Historical
Gardens. 1995-97 German member on the
editorial board of the Journal of Garden
History. An International Quarterly (London/
Washington, D.C.), 1990ff. Co-edits the annual
bibliography of the history of garden design
in the academic journal: Die Gartenkunst
(Worms/Rhine).
Author of numerous publications on the
literary and cultural history of the 17th to
20th-centuries, landscape and garden history,
and the history of words and meanings,
including:
Das Gartenreich Dessau-Wörlitz als kulturelles
und literarisches Zentrum um 1780 (1995,
Dessau-Wörlitz-Beiträge 4); Erotik in der
Gartenkunst. Eine Kulturgeschichte der
Liebesgärten (1995); with Jost Hermand:
Revolutio Germanica. Die Sehnsucht nach der
alten Freiheit der Germanen 1750-1820 (2002);
Goethe-Wörterbuch. published by the Berlin-
Brandenburg. Akademie d. Wissenschaften
(2004); with Annette Dorgerloh: Arkadien.
Geschichten eines europäischen Traumes, to
accompany the exhibition in Weimar 2007,
Tiefurt 2008, Dessau 2009 (2007); with Horst
Bredekamp and Annette Dorgerloh assisted
by Axel Klausmeier: Klassizismus/Gotik.
Karl Friedrich Schinkel und die patriotische
Baukunst (2007); entry on Landscape/Garden
About the Experts
in: Handbuch Europäische Aufklärung. Ed.
Heinz Thoma (expected 2009).
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