Do we still need traditions?

Prof. Heiner Lippe, architect and professor for sustainable planning and building at the Technical University of Lübeck, takes us on a journey to the most diverse building materials and architectural styles around the globe. In a nice interplay with Dr. Birgit Stammberger from the Center for Cultural Research Lübeck (ZKFL) at the University of Lübeck. She would like to see the concept of tradition as a visibility of diversity. As an active form of remembrance that strengthens togetherness, but also constructs such as dual gender can break up. Arvid Gast, Professor of Organ at the Lübeck University of Music, knows that a certain openness is required for this. Here, too, modernity and tradition do not always have to mean a conflict; what is needed is a negotiation of different realities and a certain form of commitment. For this, the church must also come out of its laziness, otherwise Gustav Mahler was right in the end that tradition is just sloppiness.

Moderated by Theresia Lichtlein, Head of Communications at the Technical University of Lübeck, the podcast from Lübeck to the power of 3 once a month topics of research, culture and society. Representatives of the three universities involved in the project are invited (Lübeck University of Music, Lübeck Technical University and Lübeck University) and depending on the topic, an expert as a guest.
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Knowledge transfer, mutual dialogue and new ideas – this is what Lübeck stands for 3. The initiators and representatives of the three universities see their own podcast as an important building block to stimulate discourse with society about science and culture.

The discussion round in episode 20

Prof. Arch. DPLG CEAA Heiner Lippe has been a professor at the department since 2010 construction of the Technical University of Lübeck. With his professional specialization in building biology, earth building, renovation of old buildings, timber construction and ecological planning and building, he set standards for sustainable building at the Lübeck University of Applied Sciences early on. Born in Nuremberg, he completed his architecture studies at the École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Grenoble with the highest distinction and specialized in ecological construction and the renovation of old buildings. He works as a freelance architect and is in demand internationally. He and his students regularly take part in the world’s largest architecture competition, the Solar Decathlon.

dr Before her studies, Birgit Irma Stammberger worked as a goldsmith for a few years before she studied cultural studies and received her doctorate in philosophy. Since 2015 she has been working as a scientific coordinator at the Center for Cultural Research Lübeck (ZKFL). Her teaching and research focuses include gender knowledge in medicine, food cultures, the history of psychoanalysis and feminist criticism of science. It is traditional for cultural studies to deal with the multi-layered and complex concept and phenomenon of tradition, says Dr. Stammberger.

Arvid Gast has been a professor of organ since 1993, first at the “Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy” University of Music and Theater in Leipzig and since 2004 at the Lübeck University of Music In the course of his career, Gast has worked in well-known places in Germany and abroad as an organist, master class teacher, guest professor (including at the Oberlin Conservatory in Ohio/USA) and a jury member and has delighted his audience with his wide-ranging repertoire.Since 2007 he organizes the “International Dieterich Buxtehude Organ Competition”, which is held every 3 years in Lübeck.

The moderator Theresia Lichtlein has been Head of Communications at the Technical University of Lübeck since 2016. In addition to the podcast “Gedankensprung” she moderates online and offline events, workshops and panels on science, business and academic life. “The podcast GEDENKENSPRÜNGE shows like no other format what different associations a keyword can trigger in different people,” she explains. “I find it incredibly fascinating when these perspectives collide and our world view expands. Our guests as well as our listeners can benefit from the perspectives of others and draw inspiration.”

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