Since the summer semester of 2016, the department has been awarding the Friedrich Weinbrenner Prize to master's graduates for outstanding final theses in the architecture course. The prize commemorates the Karlsruhe architect, urban planner and university lecturer Friedrich Weinbrenner (1766-1826). The prize is funded by the Heinrich Johannes and Maria Gertrud Hansen Foundation.

One prize and two commendations were awarded this semester.

Recognition
Melina Kienzle
On the preservation of tangible and intangible cultural heritage - a new chapter for the Freiburg
Minster Building Association
Chair of Building Construction, Prof. Ludwig Wappner
Chair of Building and Architectural History, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Joaquín Medina Warmburg

Recognition
Johanna Mantel
In the old garb
Chair of Building Theory, Prof. Meinrad Morger
Chair of Building and Architectural History, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Joaquín Medina Warmburg

Weinbenner Prize
Philipp Schmider
Water World 2
Chair of City and Housing, Prof. Christian Inderbitzin
Chair of Architectural Theory, Prof. Dr. Anna-Maria Meister

In diesem Semester werden gleichwertige drei Anerkennungen vergeben.

Anerkennung
Patrick Ehrensberger 
Ferme du Peuple - Agriculture meets Kapital
Professur Baukonstruktion 
Prof. Ludwig Wappner    
Professur Bau- und Architekturgeschichte 
Prof. Dr. Joaquin Medina Warmburg

Anerkennung
Marian Gerth
Integrative Platte Berlin Fennpfuhl: De-Standardisierte Großwohnsiedlung für eine diverse Bevölkerung Professur Internationaler Städtebau und Entwerfen 
Prof. Dr. Barbara Engel    
Professur Architekturkommunikation 
Prof. Dr. Riklef Rambow

Anerkennung
Stephanie Doll    
Passage: Ein Ort der Trauer, der Begegnung und des Abschieds
Professur Gebäudelehre 
Prof. Meinrad Morger    
Professur Architekturkommunikation 

In diesem Semester werden gleichwertige drei Anerkennungen vergeben.

Anna Klotzki
Refugium, Verborgene Heterotope
Professur Stadt und Wohnen
Prof. Christian Inderbitzin
Professur Architekturkommunikation  
Prof. Dr. Riklef Rambow

Maram Batta
Haus der Inspiration - Räume der Hoffnung im Gaza-Streifen
Professur Gebäudelehre 
Prof. Meinrad Morger
Professur Architekturkommunikation  
Prof. Dr. Riklef Rambow

Lukas Benz
Dealing with the Past - Umgang und Vermittlung unseres nuklearen Erbes
Professur Baukonstruktion 
Prof. Ludwig Wappner
Professur Architekturkommunikation  
Prof. Dr. Riklef Rambow

Anerkennung
Soffia Jungmann
Zwischen Ideologie & Realität - Großwohnbauten der 1960er und 1970er
Prof. Meinrad Morger
Prof. Dr. Joaquin Medina Warmburg

Anerkennung
Andrea Santos
Vor dem Festmahl
Prof. Dirk Hebel    
Prof. Dr. Riklef Rambow
    
Anerkennung
Patrick Schaaf    
The Green Machine – Von der Rückkehr der Produktion im Stahlwerk Meiderich
Prof. Ludwig Wappner    
Prof. Dr. Joaquin Medina Warmburg

Preis
Sebastian Krumm 
European EnergyLAB- Ein Innovationszentrum für die Energiewende des 21. Jahrhunderts.
Prof. Ludwig Wappner / Prof. Andreas Wagner   

Anerkennung
Mena Ghaly    
Hypermärkte von gestern - Ernährung von morgen
Prof. Christian Inderbitzin / Prof. Dr. Riklef Rambow
    
Anerkennung
Pia Thissen
Wissen findet Stadtt    
Prof. Dr. Barbara Engel / Prof. Renzo Vallebuona

The Weinbrenner Prize for the best thesis in the summer semester 2021 was awarded during the Master's farewell ceremony on October 27, 2021.

Prize:
Laura Bernard
Unbraided - 100 years of Mies Friedrichstrasse
Prof. Marc Frohn / Prof. Meinrad Morger

Recognition:
Florian Albert
Center for European Spaceflight
Prof. Ludwig Wappner / Prof. Dr. Riklef Rambow

Recognition:
Elena Boerman
On the Permanence of a Transformative Architecture - For a Climate- and Resource-Fair Treatment of the Architectural Heritage of Post-War Modernism
Prof. Dirk Hebel / Prof. Dr. Riklef Rambow

As part of the master's farewell ceremony on April 21, 2021, theWeinbrenner Prize was awarded for the best thesis in the winter semester 2020/21.

GraduateLeonie Trienen was awarded the Weinbrenner Prize for her Master's thesis "Dress locally? - Typologies of Fashion Creation in Zurich's Urban Space" (supervised by Prof. Meinrad Morger and Prof. Dr. Riklef Rambow) with the Weinbrenner Prize (endowed with 500 euros).

Recognition was given to Sonja Steenhoff for her Master's thesis "Space and Law - Reconstruction and Extension of the Freiburg Regional Court" (supervised by Prof. Dirk E. Hebel and Prof. Andreas Wagner) andLaura Berndt for her Master's thesis "Revived. Revitalisation of the Old Slaughterhouse in Pforzheim" (supervised by Prof. Ludwig Wappner and Prof. Christian Inderbitzin).

Congratulations!

Price:
Manuel Kratky
Alpine Protected Area - Research on Change Alpine Research Center
Prof. Meinrad Morger / Prof. Matthias Pfeifer

Recognition:
Hanna Hoss
Pro Humla - Birthplace in West Nepal
Prof. Dirk Hebel / Prof. Andreas Wagner

Acknowledgement:
Dawin Müller
New Space - First spaceport in Europe
Prof. Ludwig Wappner / Prof. Dr. Riklef Rambow

Prof. Dr. Barbara Engel (right) with award winner Katharina Blümke (left) at the award ceremony as part of the Master's farewell on October 23, 2019. (Photo: Studienwerkstatt Fotografie)

As part of the Master's farewell ceremony on October 23, 2019, theWeinbrenner Prize was awarded for the best final thesis in the summer semester of 2019.

For the outstanding master's thesis "Roter Ochse - Die Resozialisierung der Architektur" (supervised by Prof. Dirk Hebel and Prof. Dr. Riklef Rambow)Katharina Blümke was awarded the Weinbrenner Prize (endowed with 500 euros).

The work develops a strategy for the sustainable conversion and use of the "Red Ox" prison in Halle, which will be vacant from 2025 onwards, after which it will be necessary to resocialise the ensemble of buildings, which are currently hidden from view, i.e. to integrate them into the built environment. In order to make the area accessible, the demolition of the 5-meter-high prison wall is unavoidable. Katharina Blümke tilts the wall and thus obtains a footpath around the area. The footpath is complemented by the connecting element of a narrow stream, thus creating integration into the urban environment.
The site must also be given an attractive public use. In addition to residential buildings and restaurants, a music academy is to be built on the site of the former prison: Students practice here daily and enliven the area.
The materials of the deconstructed buildings will be reused directly on site. For example, the quarry stone porphyry from the demolished wall will be reused in the outer walls of the new large hall of the conservatory. Loam rammed walls with a large proportion of the quarry stone are being formed. In the process, the outermost layer of the clay is removed by weathering, so that the stone is revealed once again.
By connecting the large hall directly to the existing building, it is now possible to walk through the former prison, and a new building is being constructed from old materials reclaimed directly from the site. The formerly separating structures appear in new, connecting elements and link the city with the existing buildings. The architecture is resocialized.

The work was supervised by Prof. Dirk Hebel (Sustainable Building) and Prof. Dr. Riklef Rambow (Architectural Communication).

Recognitions (endowed with 250 Euro) go to
Andra Ionel
Milan Town House
Prof. Meinrad Morger and Prof. Dr. Riklef Rambow

Janosch Ottenschläger
Urban Metabolism - Strategies for the "Circulation City
Prof. Barbara Engel and Prof. Dirk Hebel

As part of the master's farewell ceremony on April 24, 2019, theWeinbrenner Prize was awarded for the best theses in the winter semester 2018/19.

Graduate Noel Rabuffetti was awarded the Weinbrenner Prize (endowed with 500 euros) for his outstanding Master's thesis "ARQUSTICA - architectura.aqua.acustica" (supervised by Prof. Ludwig Wappner and Prof. Dr. Riklef Rambow).

Recognition was given toManuel Pflüger for his Master's thesis "Repository of Highly Radioactive Waste for Germany" (supervised by Prof. Meinrad Morger and Prof. Dr. Riklef Rambow) and Rio Weber for his Master's thesis "Learning from El Alto" (supervised by Prof. Marc Frohn and Prof. Renzo Vallebuona).

The work of Noel Rabuffetti and Manuel Pflüger is documented in the Master's publication of the winter semester.

Congratulations!

Prof. Dr. Georg Vrachliotis (second from right) with award winner Noel Rabuffetti (right), Rio Weber and Manuel Pflüger at the award ceremony during the Master's farewell on April 24, 2019. (Photo: Studienwerkstatt Fotografie)

The Weinbrenner Prize for the best thesis in the summer semester 2018 was awarded during the Master's farewell ceremony on October 24, 2018.

For the outstanding Master's thesis "Molus - Centro Culturale"(supervised by Prof. Meinrad Morger and Prof. Renzo Vallebuona), Edith Mandel was awarded the Weinbrenner Prize (endowed with 500 euros).

An acknowledgement (endowed with 250 Euro) goes toMarcella Härle for her master thesis "A botanical centre for the Ruhr area", which was supervised by Prof. Ludwig Wappner and Prof. Dr. Riklef Rambow.

The award winner Edith Mandel at the Friedrich Weinbrenner Award Ceremony during the Master's farewell ceremony of the summer semester 2018. (Photo: Studienwerkstatt Fotografie)

Prof. Dr. Georg Vrachliotis (left) and Marcella Härle (right) at the award ceremony as part of the Master's farewell on 24 October 2018. (Photo: Studienwerkstatt Fotografie)

As part of the master's farewell ceremony on April 26, 2018, the Weinbrenner Prize was awarded for the best thesis in the winter semester 2017/18.

The prize winner is Nadine Fechti.

She is awarded for the outstanding Master's thesis "Kontaktzone Bahnhof Konstanz" (supervised by Prof. Meinrad Morger and Prof. Markus Neppl).

Recognition goes to Alexander Forsch for his Master's thesis "Nhà Mày Tài Chê - Rethinking Material Flows and Urban Manufacturing in the Digital Age" (supervised by Prof. Dirk Hebel and Prof. Dr. Riklef Rambow).

Alexander Forsch (left) and Nadine Fechti (right) at the award ceremony during the Master's farewell on 25 April 2018. (Photo: Studienwerkstatt Fotografie)

The awardee of the winter semester 2016/17 is:

Valerio Calavetta
For his master's thesis "Living in the Wildpark" (supervised by Prof. Ludwig Wappner).

Acknowledgement is given to:

Matthias Fehrenbach
for his master thesis "You never walk alone" (supervised by Prof. Marc Frohn)