From left to right: Prof. Dr. Oliver Jehle, Prof. Dr. Georg Vrachliotis, PD Dr. Annemarie Jaeggi and Prof. Dirk Hebel

On November 6, 2019, PD Dr. Jaeggi was awarded an honorary doctorate for her outstanding services to the teaching and research fields of art, design, construction, and architectural history represented at the Department of Architecture at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT).

Dr. Annemarie Jaeggi is regarded in international specialist circles as one of the most renowned architecture and art historians for the 20th century, in particular due to her expertise for the era of the Weimar Republic with a focus on Walter Gropius as well as in the field of monument preservation and exhibitions.
Since 2003 she has been director at the Bauhaus Archive / Museum of Design in Berlin.

The Bauhaus Archive / Museum of Design owns the world's largest collection on the history of the Bauhaus (1919-1933). It researches, presents and communicates the history and impact of the Bauhaus, the most important school for architecture, design and art in the 20th century. On the occasion of 100 years of the Bauhaus, the anniversary exhibition "original bauhaus" recently opened at the Berlinische Galerie, which has already become a crowd puller and can be seen until 27 January 2020.

Dr. Jaeggi has close ties to the city of Karlsruhe and in particular to the KIT Department of Architecture: From 1992 to 2001, she was a research assistant at the Institute of Art History at the University of Karlsruhe, completed her habilitation there in 2001 on the topic of "Walter Gropius and the Settlement Construction of the Weimar Republic", and in 2002/03 was able to take over the substitute professorship at the Institute of Construction History as well as the provisional management of the Southwest German Archive for Architecture and Civil Engineering (saai) - before she received the offer to take over the management of the Bauhaus Archive in Berlin.

Dr. Jaeggi was the lead curator of the exhibition "Egon Eiermann (1904-1970) - The Continuity of Modernism" at the Städtische Galerie Karlsruhe, a retrospective held in 2004 to mark the 100th anniversary of Egon Eiermann's birth, in cooperation with the Südwestdeutsches Archiv für Architektur und Ingenieurbau Karlsruhe (saai). Due to its enormous success, the exhibition was subsequently also shown at the Bauhaus Archive in Berlin and the Neues Museum in Nuremberg.

The ceremony to award the honorary doctorate took place on Wednesday, November 6, 2019, 6 p.m. in the Fritz-Haller lecture hall of the KIT Department of Architecture, Englerstraße 7, 76131 Karlsruhe.

After greetings by Dean Prof. Dirk E. Hebel, Prof. Dr. Alexander Wanner (Vice President for Teaching and Academic Affairs at KIT), and Prof. Dr. Oliver Jehle (Department of Art History), Prof. Dr. Georg Vrachliotis (Department of Architectural Theory) delivered the laudatory speech, in which he emphasized the special merits of the honoree, particularly with regard to the visualization of the Bauhaus legacy.

In her ceremonial lecture "Architecture and History. A Plea", Annemarie Jaeggi, referring to Pierre Bourdieu's field theory and the types of capital defined therein, addressed the overlaps and interactions between the fields of architecture and art history, and how the actors in these fields have always influenced each other.

In the 100th anniversary year of the Bauhaus, the KIT Department  of Architecture is extremely pleased to honor Ms. Jaeggi's outstanding achievements in the history of art, design, architecture, and construction by awarding her an honorary doctorate.

The event was musically accompanied by Eyal Heimann (cello) and Uriah Tutter (cello).