Christian Eckert
43 years old
Master of Fine Arts | History | Education
Guide since 20 years
Main topics
Weimar History | Bauhaus | Architecture
Master of Fine Arts | History | Education
Guide since 20 years
Main topics
Weimar History | Bauhaus | Architecture
I was born on 2 October 1981 in Erfurt. My first show appearances were in the garden in front of my grandmother when I was twelve. At times I aspired to different professional goals: biologist, architect, or interior designer. Instead, I chose a rather down-to-earth teacher training, specialising in art and history in Jena and at the Bauhaus in Weimar, 19 days after 9/11.
In 2002 I took part in a pedagogical seminar that made me a Bauhaus guide. I was selected specifically as an enthusiastic Bauhaus fan. Since then I have guided tours in half of Germany and at least a third of Holland. Rather accidentally I became a research assistant at the General Academic Advising Service in Weimar in 2004, later serving concurrently in Jena. In retrospect, I was setting my life’s course.
In between I served as a student senator of the Art of Design Faculty. Politics is less sexy than it seems and meetings of three hours or more are not my style.
In 2004 I wrote "Die Russen kommen.“ It was my first publication in a book of my favourite professor, Dr. Silke Satjukow. In 2005, I wrote another text in „Nach drüben“, supported by the Thuringia Center for Political Education.
In I held an internship at the German School in Tokyo. For the first time I was completely on my own, lost in translation. But nowhere else does sushi taste better. I had to do something in Japan. In 2007 I took an artistic exam in order to work locally. Upon my return I studied history in Jena with Prof. Dr. Volkhard Knigge.
In 2009 on President Obama’s 100th day in office, I stayed in Pennsylvania, USA, as part of a Rotary exchange program. No one cooks better than the Amish and eating chips directly from the conveyor belt in the Pennsylvania factory was simply fantastic.
In 2010 I edited „Kleines Lexikon - Bauhaus Weimar“, together with Ulrich Völkel. I've never worked on such a big project and am still proud of this accomplishment today. In 2012 I worked on „Van-de-Velde-Spaziergang“ for the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar together with one of today's greatest curators at the Museum für Konkrete Kunst in Ingolstadt, Dr. Theres Rohde.
Then everything went very fast: I was a student advisor at my alma mater in Jena, then I was an employee in the public relations department of the Thüringer Energie und GreenTech Agentur in Erfurt. Since 2013 I have been a student advisor at the University of Weimar. I remain faithful to the Bauhaus. Thank God!
Now it's up to you. Unlock my knowledge on a walk through the liveliest, most peculiar city in Germany, if not the whole world.
In 2002 I took part in a pedagogical seminar that made me a Bauhaus guide. I was selected specifically as an enthusiastic Bauhaus fan. Since then I have guided tours in half of Germany and at least a third of Holland. Rather accidentally I became a research assistant at the General Academic Advising Service in Weimar in 2004, later serving concurrently in Jena. In retrospect, I was setting my life’s course.
In between I served as a student senator of the Art of Design Faculty. Politics is less sexy than it seems and meetings of three hours or more are not my style.
In 2004 I wrote "Die Russen kommen.“ It was my first publication in a book of my favourite professor, Dr. Silke Satjukow. In 2005, I wrote another text in „Nach drüben“, supported by the Thuringia Center for Political Education.
In I held an internship at the German School in Tokyo. For the first time I was completely on my own, lost in translation. But nowhere else does sushi taste better. I had to do something in Japan. In 2007 I took an artistic exam in order to work locally. Upon my return I studied history in Jena with Prof. Dr. Volkhard Knigge.
In 2009 on President Obama’s 100th day in office, I stayed in Pennsylvania, USA, as part of a Rotary exchange program. No one cooks better than the Amish and eating chips directly from the conveyor belt in the Pennsylvania factory was simply fantastic.
In 2010 I edited „Kleines Lexikon - Bauhaus Weimar“, together with Ulrich Völkel. I've never worked on such a big project and am still proud of this accomplishment today. In 2012 I worked on „Van-de-Velde-Spaziergang“ for the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar together with one of today's greatest curators at the Museum für Konkrete Kunst in Ingolstadt, Dr. Theres Rohde.
Then everything went very fast: I was a student advisor at my alma mater in Jena, then I was an employee in the public relations department of the Thüringer Energie und GreenTech Agentur in Erfurt. Since 2013 I have been a student advisor at the University of Weimar. I remain faithful to the Bauhaus. Thank God!
By 2017 I was looking for new tasks and a long-cherished wish of mine came true: I trained as a city guide at the community college. After 100 hours of teaching and two exams I successfully passed. Now I could start, after 10 years of always missing enrollment in the course due to my busy schedule.
In 2018, the Klassik Stiftung Weimar
enable me to work for them as a freelancer. Now I can always be very close to my "heroes" in the Bauhaus Museum, the Neues Museum, the Haus Hohe Pappeln, the Nietzsche-Archiv
and the Haus Am Horn, allowing guests to immerse themselves in the era of Modernism in Weimar.
Just in time for the Bauhaus100 anniversary, the new edition of my book entitled "Das Bauhaus Weimar" was published in April 2019. And I always get a touch of bliss when I see it in one of the museum shops.
Just in time for the Bauhaus100 anniversary, the new edition of my book entitled "Das Bauhaus Weimar" was published in April 2019. And I always get a touch of bliss when I see it in one of the museum shops.
Yours, Christian Eckert
