Prof. Dr.-Ing. Daniela Spiegel

Daniela Spiegel is Professor of Historic Preservation and Architectural History at the Bauhaus University Weimar since 2023. Previously, she lectured as a Professor of architectural history and monument preservation at the Anhalt University of Applied Sciences. Her research focuses on monument theory, architectural and urban planning history of the 20th century.  In addition to the architecture and urban planning of Italian fascism Die Città Nuove des Agro Pontino im Rahmen der faschistischen Staatsarchitektur (2010) as well as, together with Harald Bodenschatz, Städtebau für Mussolini (2011), she is concerned with the architectural, especially the touristic heritage of the GDR Urlaubs(t)räume des Sozialismus. Zur Geschichte der Ferienarchitektur in der DDR (2020). Within her research projects and as a member of the research training group “Identity and Heritage”, she deals with questions of dealing with uncomfortable heritage on various levels.

Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Professur Denkmalpflege und Baugeschichte