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Architect, urban planner, politican
Benjamin Eckel, last edited on 20.07.2022
Name:
Dorothee Dubrau
Life Dates:
b. 1955
Country:
Field of expertise:
Architectural design, urban planning, education
Employers:
HAG Komplexer Wohnungsbau Berlin
Office for Urban Planning, Berlin
Technical University Darmstadt
City of Leipzig
Education:
Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee
Dorothee Dubrau was born in Berlin in 1955 as the daughter of a doctor and a physicist and studied architecture and urban planning at the Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee (Berlin-Weißensee School of Art). After graduating in 1978, she worked as an architect at HAG Komplexer Wohnungsbau Berlin until 1980, then as an urban planner at the Büro für Städtebau. From 1988 to 1990, Dubrau was the spokesperson for the citizens’ initiative Luisenstadt (in Berlin), which was concerned with the revitalisation of the neighbourhood of the same name.
Dubrau is married and has four children.
Dorothee Dubrau was involved, among other things, in the design planning for the large-scale building project Berlin-Marzahn under the direction of Heinz Graffunder. Later she was involved in inner-city housing projects and urban redevelopment. After the end of the GDR, she worked as a district councillor, as an architect and urban planner, as a lecturer, and most recently as mayor for urban development and construction in Leipzig, before retiring in 2020.
Since the 2000s she has published several writings on architecture and urban planning as well as on the GDR civil movement in an architectural context.
Albers, Gerd; Wekel, Julian (in cooperation with Dorothee Dubrau): Stadtplanung – eine illustrierte Einführung. WBG, Darmstadt 2008.
Dubrau, Dorothee: Architekturführer Berlin-Mitte. Neubauten und Sanierungen seit 1990. DOM Publishers, Berlin 2008.
Dubrau, Dorothee; Stappenbeck, Klaus-Dietrich; Stappenbeck, Gisela: Erlebtes Bauen. Ost-Berlin 1959 bis 1989. DOM Publishers, Berlin 2008.
Dubrau, Dorothee: Bürgerbewegungen und Stadterneuerung. Industrialisierter Massenwohnungsbau von oben – Bürgeremanzipation von unten, in: Bernhardt, Christoph; Flierl, Thomas, Welch Guerra, Max: Städtebau-Debatten in der DDR. Verborgene Reformdiskurse. Edition Gegenstand und Raum, Theater der Zeit, Berlin 2012.
Lange, Torsten: Nirgendwo nichts. Repräsentationen des Wohnumfelds in der Großsiedlung Berlin-Marzahn zwischen “grüner Wiese” und Angerdorf, in: archimera #6, Aachen 2015.
https://www.theaterderzeit.de/person/dorothee_dubrau/ (last accessed on 20.07.2022)
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothee_Dubrau (last accessed on 20.07.2022)
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