Vortrag von Winfried Nerdinger, München: Hitler als Architekt? – Architektur im Nationalsozialismus

In the organizer's words:

Lecture on the occasion of the awarding of the Theodor Fischer Prize 2025

Adolf Hitler had precise ideas about the form and function of representative buildings in the Nazi system and personally gave verbal and graphic instructions. The "showpiece" of the regime was not a megalomaniac architecture of oppression, but on the contrary was intended to raise the self-esteem of a racist and bellicose national community. The significance of architecture under National Socialism only becomes clear when it is viewed as a whole, together with the ideology and armaments machinery on which it was based.

Prof. Dr. Winfried Nerdinger was Professor of Architectural History and Director of the Museum of Architecture at the Technical University of Munich from 1986 to 2012 and Founding Director of the Munich Documentation Centre for the History of National Socialism from 2012 to 2018.

Participation is free of charge.
Venue: Central Institute for Art History, Katharina-von-Bora-Str. 10, Munich, lecture hall 242, second floor
The lecture will be broadcast in parallel via Zoom. Information on the event and participation via Zoom can be found here.