At the presentation of the second Possehl scholarship for architecture in the Kulturwerft Gollan, around 250 guests honored the outstanding achievements of the architecture and urban planning students. Three students were able to stand out from the rest and received a travel grant worth 3,000 euros each: Dustin Buddenberg, Tom Holthusen and Alexander Pfleiderer. In addition to the travel grants, a jury made up of members from the TH Lübeck, the Architektur Forum and the BDA regional group Lübeck was able to award seven additional travel allowances of 300 euros each to Sascha Brühl, Hannah Dräseke, Anna Glück, Jil Hoffmann, Lennart Seitz, Emre Ününcü and Benedikt Zdunek .
“Looking outside the box”
“I am happy about this evening, this location and this prize, because I think that this Possehl scholarship is such an incredibly good idea,” says TH Lübeck President Dr. Muriel Helbig. For us at the Technical University of Lübeck, internationalization is particularly important. We maintain international partnerships for everyone: for students, for teachers, for staff. Above all, it is important for us to think outside the box and that is exactly what the Possehl scholarship for architecture offers,” says Helbig, emphasizing the importance of the award.
“Educational trips expand horizons and knowledge”
The chairman of Possehl Foundation, Max Schön, emphasized in his address to the students and guests: “Even more than 100 years ago, our founder Emil Possehl wanted to give young people new ways into the world and to explore innovative topics.” Even today, the promotion of the Youth in all its facets is one of the central concerns of the Possehl Foundation. “Educational trips expand horizons and knowledge – this is not only important for personal development, but it is also of inestimable value for social change and progress,” Schön continues. “We are really looking forward to the travel reports from our scholarship holders!”
Live trip report
The Possehl Foundation was able to follow a live travel report on the same evening. The scholarship holder Janika Rausch from the first round of the architecture prize brought photos of her tour and let the guests travel from Braunschweig – where she was able to complete her master’s degree last year – via Innsbruck to Venice for the 2021 Biennale. “For me there was a lot of interesting food for thought that I took home from Venice. I’m also convinced that travel is very important for architects,” says Janika Rausch. “No picture can show us how the building is embedded in the context. Experiencing on site is very important for learning and developing,” summarizes Janika Rausch.
Austria, Switzerland, Great Britain and a tour of Italy
Three scholarship holders, three different travel plans: “I would like to visit Vorarlberg in Austria to marvel at the fantastic landscape and the wooden architecture there. In Austria I want to search for traces of the architect Peter Zumthor and in Italy I want to experience the different historical epochs from antiquity to the Renaissance,” says Dustin Buddenberg about his trip. In Italy, he might bump into scholarship holder Tom Holthusen, who is planning a whole tour of the country: “The reason for this is deeply buried in the history of architecture. The Renaissance impressed me afterwards and I hope that I can learn from the formal language for my own architecture. I would also like to live out my interest in urban planning through the historic Italian squares.” Scholarship holder Alexander Pfleiderer has found a place in the world. The international exchange is very important to him, which he is currently experiencing on the construction site of the Solar Decathlon Europe in Wuppertal in the German-Turkish team Deeply High. Pfleiderer wants to use the travel grant to finance an internship in London: “London is an expensive place and I am all the more pleased that I can now further expand my experience in international cooperation with the help of the grant.”
Over a quarter of a century of tradition
Not only the architects and urban planners were awarded in the anniversary week. The students from civil engineering and sustainable building technology were also happy about the SCHÜTT prize. At a festive event on Friday, June 3rd, a total of four students were honored for their achievements in the Bauforum.
The Lübeck construction company has been awarding the SCHÜTT Prize to students at the Lübeck Technical University since 1987. Students from civil engineering and sustainable building technology could apply. Participation in the selection process was by no means a gift. In the end, eleven students were able to demonstrate a very good course of study, present their work to a jury in a selection round and then ask critical questions. Stephan Wehrig, Dean of the Faculty of Civil Engineering at Lübeck University of Applied Sciences, praises: “When we talk about the award winners today, everyone was able to impress with the high level of their work.”
Two first prizes of 1,000 euros each went to the students Edith Rössig and Philipp Wiesenthal. Edith Rössig wrote about the topic “On the applicability of Building Information Modeling (BIM) when creating a spatial building ground model”. “I am delighted that my work is being recognized in this way,” says Rössig. Philipp Wiesenthal has already received a prize for his bachelor thesis and can now also look forward to 1,000 euros. He dealt with the topic: “On the statistical evaluation of piles of the FUNDEX system subjected to tensile loads”. He says: “This award is definitely the icing on the cake for my master’s degree.”
Robin Jaaks and Ben Lösing won two second prizes of 800 euros each. Jaaks dealt with a topic that couldn’t be more topical: “Effective use of a fuel cell in a non-residential building, with the production and use of green hydrogen”. Ben Lösing convinced with his work on “offset dimension and tensile force coverage”.
Jan-Friedrich Schütt, Managing Partner of SCHÜTT, presented the prizes and said to the participants: “I would like to congratulate all eleven proposed students on their final theses (…) They have certainly had to deal with some difficult situations in the last two years . But you had the discipline, the perseverance and set yourself a small monument that you should be rightly proud of. With your studies at the Lübeck University of Applied Sciences, you have a very good foundation on which you can build,” says Schütt, who himself once studied civil engineering at what was then the Lübeck University of Applied Sciences.