Sigrid Brandt

Maske aus Stein Foto: © Hubert Auer

Associate Prof. Dr. habil. Sigrid Brandt
Deputy Chair of the Department of Art History’s Curriculum Committee

Unipark Nonntal, Erzabt-Klotz-Straße 1, Room 2.423, 5020 Salzburg

Tel.: +43 (0)662 8044 4608
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Office Hours

Tuesday, 14:00–15:00
The office hour takes place on site in Ms Brandt’s office (Room 2.423).
How to book: Please email Ms Brandt to arrange an appointment.

Research Interests

  • History of modern architecture and urban planning

  • Heritage conservation: theory, history, and current developments

  • Building on heritage sites and contemporary architecture

  • Memory culture and related debates

  • Methods of art history and historiography of art history

Biography

Sigrid Brandt studied Musicology and Art History at Humboldt University in Berlin. Her master’s thesis focused on a Berlin composer of the 1920s. After completing her studies, she worked as a freelance architectural historian, preparing heritage surveys and reports. She was a member of the graduate programme “Art Studies – Building Research – Heritage Conservation” at TU Berlin and the University of Bamberg. Following her PhD on the history of heritage conservation in the Soviet Occupation Zone/East Germany, she held teaching positions in the postgraduate heritage conservation programme at TU Berlin and worked as a research associate at the Chair of “Heritage Conservation and Design” at TU Dresden. From 2001 to 2017, she was a founding member and co-editor of the online journal kunsttexte.de (Heritage Conservation section).

Since 2008, Sigrid Brandt has been working at Paris Lodron University Salzburg. Her habilitation thesis “Stadtbaukunst. Methoden ihrer Geschichtsschreibung” (Urban Architecture. Methods of Its Historiography) was accepted at Salzburg and published in 2015 by Hendrik Bäßler Verlag, Berlin. In the winter semester of 2011/12, she held the Chair of “Heritage Sciences” at the University of Bamberg as interim professor.

Sigrid Brandt plays an active advisory role in various committees concerned with current debates in heritage conservation. From 2012 to 2021, she served on the Executive Board of ICOMOS Germany (as Secretary General and Vice President). She is also a member of the Saxon Academy of Arts.

Publications

Ulrich Reinisch, Versuch und Scheitern. Zur Aushandlung öffentlicher Räume. Texte 1993–2022, edited by Sigrid Brandt, Berlin 2024.

“Sublimierung des Unvorstellbaren. Zum Bau von Krematorien seit dem späten 19. Jahrhundert.” In: INSITU – Journal of Architectural History, vol. 15 (2023), no. 2, pp. 249–262.

Massen sterben. Wege des Erinnerns an zwei Weltkriege aus europäischer Perspektive / Masses are dying. Ways of remembrance of two world wars from a European perspective, Berlin 2021 (ed. by Sigrid Brandt).  OPEN ACCESS

Stadtbaukunst. Methoden ihrer Geschichtsschreibung, Berlin 2015.

Denkmalpflege in der SBZ/DDR. Dargestellt an Beispielen aus dem sächsischen Raum 1945–1961, Berlin 2003.

Further information can be found on Sigrid Brandt’s  PLUS Research page.