Prof. Dr.-Ing. Barbara Schönig

Studied Modern German Literature and Art History to Magistra Artium at Humboldt University and in the Master’s programme German Literature at the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at Ohio State University (Columbus/Ohio, USA). Studied urban and regional planning to become a graduate engineer at the Technical University of Berlin. Doctorate with the title “Pragmatic Visionaries. Civil Society and Urban Regional Planning in the USA” in Urban and Regional Planning at the Technical University of Berlin. 
Academic career: Teaching Assistant at Ohio State University, student assistant at Humboldt University Berlin (Institute of Modern German Literature), and Technical University Berlin (Department of Sociology of Planning and Architecture). Research assistant also at the Technical University of Berlin (Department of Sociology of Planning and Architecture) and as a postdoc at the Technical University of Darmstadt (Department of Spatial and Infrastructure Planning). Since 2012 professor of Stadtplanung at the Bauhaus University Weimar, and Director of the Institute for European Urban Studies there from 2013 to 2021. Since December 2021, on leave of absence from the professorship and appointment as State Secretary in the Thuringian Ministry of Infrastructure and Agriculture, responsible for the areas of construction and transport.