Hello and welcome to a new edition of Unicat TV, the university
magazine here in BTV.
Nice that you switched on again.
We have prepared the following topics for you today.
High visit Michael Gorbatschow at the Friederizianer.
Start for the first semester when the parents are at the celebrations.
Furniture for everyone.
The life of the Karlsruher architect Egon Eiermann.
High visit to the Friederizianer last Saturday.
No less than Michael Gorbatschow was elected as president of the
Academy for Sustainable Development and Technologies.
Wait for Gorbatschow!
Shortly before 11 o'clock he finally appeared on the page of Rector
Sigmar Wittig at the Karlsruher University's Environmental Research
Center.
For the second time already, at his last visit one and a half years
ago, he had called upon the establishment of the Academy for
Sustainable Development and Technologies, to which he was expected to
be elected president on Saturday morning.
It is no coincidence that he is in favor of his project, especially
the Karlsruher University.
On the one hand, this region is interesting in the technological and
scientific field.
Not only in Germany, but also in Europe.
On the other hand, the Karlsruher University, as a German-Russian
colleague, already has ten years of experience in the field of
technology transfer.
And also the necessary openness for philosophical questions, for
questions of reorientation of values.
Everything happened naturally.
And the idea itself grew out of this situation.
Of course, in a university, cooperation between research and training
institutions.
A big goal, and you have to take that from the mouth of an engineer,
is of course the support of companies, of exchange, of cooperation,
also in the economic and technical field.
And environmentally friendly technologies.
You know, the Federal Republic is leading in this area.
And we will try to incorporate the suggestions that we get from the
respective countries.
The first successful cooperation with the economy is already underway.
The Krupp Foundation supports the founding of a Central and Eastern
European center with 3 million marks, for which a new building is
being built on the territory of the Fridericians.
Gorbachev emphasized at the press conference, that despite the tight
schedule, he will personally engage for the academy.
In addition to the concrete projects in the field of environmental
protection and environmental technologies, there should also be an
education for highly qualified scientists.
In addition, there will also be constant conversations, in which the
experiences exchanged with the new technologies, new projects in mind,
and also philosophical questions, which in view of our work have
meaning, will be discussed.
Gorbachev's visit to the Fridericians.
He may not have been the last.
The high school diploma is over, a degree is pending.
Maybe one or the other already has a small job to have the first money
in their pocket.
In short, with big steps, independence is getting closer.
Or not?
The rector of Karlsruhe, Sigmar Wittig, also invited the parents for
the first semester.
Well, you are now sitting in front of a new life section.
Over 2,000 dropouts have chosen Karlsruhe as their place of study this
year.
At the first semester party at the university canteen, they excitedly
listened to his magnificence, the rector of the university, Sigmar
Wittig.
Lots of young people.
But stop!
One is no longer quite so young.
Yes, that was actually my idea.
We thought about it, it is a section in the life of the student, but
also in the life of his relatives and family.
And that somehow belongs together.
It is a new beginning and I think everyone should take part in it.
And we expect a great connection with the university.
That sounds good.
In addition, you are not so alone with your parents when you come to
the big city.
What does the Inchang think of the Easter, of the action?
It is very nice to release the children into freedom, to think about
them again.
But that should be the end for themselves.
The parents should not play such a big role anymore, I think.
On this evening, however, many parents want to stand by their children
for the last time.
The first semester party had to be held on two evenings, because so
many parents, grandparents, siblings, relatives and acquaintances had
signed up.
What do you think of the fact that the parents are now invited to the
first semester party?
It was great for me.
I think the basic approach is good.
From Lower Saxony, from Hildesheim.
Our eldest son studied in Hannover and it was not common there.
I said to my husband and son earlier that I think it's great that this
is being done.
The parents, I think it's okay, but I don't know.
At the university you should be able to speak for yourself.
As a purely educational event, it's okay.
But whether it is absolutely necessary, in my opinion, not.
And where did you leave mom and dad?
It's stupid, I come from quite far away.
And they don't have to come here for a while.
It's bitter, isn't it?
If your parents had come, what advantages would you have seen in it?
I could have shown them where I spend my day, what I do here, where I
hang out, where the money stays.
At the end of the evening, the new students were able to adjust to the
new reality.
In the first semester disco, it went without the parents.
At the moment, a furniture exhibition is running in the Badischen
Landesmuseum.
Office chairs, worktops, chest of drawers and bedchairs are shown by
Egon Eiermann.
He was a Karlsruher architect who, according to the Bauhaus tradition,
not only designed houses, but the entire interior.
The architect, who died in 1970, at the same time had a professor for
architecture at the Karlsruher University and shaped a whole
generation of architects with his works.
He was a teacher who could inspire.
Who could inspire by his appearance, always a little theatrical.
Who could inspire by his language, very direct, occasionally also
quite flowery.
And so he also dealt with students.
They were told very directly by him whether the work they did was
particularly interesting, particularly good or not so good.
Then we have no doubt.
And that is actually the background in front of which he brought the
students.
He trained generations of students.
Who like to call themselves, in large numbers, Eiermann students
today.
Actually, he was rarely seen at school.
He was supposed to give lectures, like any other professor, once a
week.
He never actually did that.
He may have given two or three lectures a semester, which were
absolute highlights.
So there came the whole faculty, and there were also former students,
and there were whole families there, because it was just incredibly
exciting how he did it.
Egon Eiermann.
His name is unknown to the layman.
The results of his work, not.
In Berlin, next to the ruin, stands the new building of the Kaiser
Wilhelm Memorial Church.
In Bonn, the former Bundesabgeordnetenhochhaus in the sky, the Lange
Euge.
His style, indescribable for the 50s and 60s.
For example, it is important to him that a building is simple, clear,
clear.
Neatly constructed.
Everything must be right.
There must be no corners.
There are no backsides that are not in order.
And that, of course, leads to steel construction in his work.
In steel, you can construct easily and easily and clearly.
The plans of his buildings, they are neatly archived.
A whole basement is filled with his ideas.
30,000 plans, drawings and designs are stored in the archives of the
Faculty of Architecture.
At Karlsruhe University, Eiermann taught from 1947 to his death in
1970.
Nevertheless, Karlsruhe treated the architect rather stubbornly.
The experimental power plant on the site of the Friderician is the
only Eiermann building in the city.
And could be exemplary for his architectural thinking.
The building is basically just as determined by a very clear skeleton
construction.
With large areas that connect the outside and the inside.
The technology is visible inside and outside through the chimneys.
This applies to the experimental power plant as well as to a whole
series of other Eiermann buildings.
Egon Eiermann, the perfectionist.
Not only the cover, but also the interior of the house must come from
a spring.
He designed everything himself, including the furniture.
His tables, his chairs can be found all over the world in living
rooms, offices or congress halls.
His holistic thinking, his claim to the completeness of a thing, seems
almost unconventional today.
And as unconventional as his way of working, his teaching methods were
as well.
One task he gave his students was the design of the ideal men's
clothing.
According to the analysis of the weak points of conventional clothing,
the young architects should design their idea of the clothing of the
future.
I had intended to use velcro as a closure, both for the inserts of the
shirt, the jacket and the trouser slit.
And demonstrated this to a fellow student for whom I had sewn these
things.
I put it on and took it off again.
And he said, Mr. Eiermann, girl, that's great what you've come up
with.
But if I imagine this noise, this tearing of the velcro, he didn't
like that at all.
And then he let his own pants down and stood in the shirt and showed
us that he was not wearing underpants, but that he was wearing
overcoats that have a longer part at the front and back and that he
pulls up between the legs and pulls over the pants.
And that was, of course, the bang and crackle that a professor lets
his pants down in a conversation.
If you want to learn more about the life and work of Egon Eiermann,
the State Museum in Karlsruhe will show its furniture and give
insights into his life until November 14th.
That's it again with Unicat TV, the university magazine here in BTV.
We'll see you again in December.
Until then, take care, all the best and goodbye.