Bulletin
Report ICOMOS EPWG Summer School 2025 "Olympiapark Munich: Conceptualising a Conservation Management Plan"
In September 2025, the Emerging Professionals Working Groups (EPWG) of ICOMOS Germany, Belgium, and Portugal organised a Summer School in Munich, dedicated to interdisciplinary exchange and collaboration within ICOMOS and among all involved participants. The workshop was supported by the ICOMOS University Forum, the international EPWG, and the Technical University of Munich.
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Appeal by ICOMOS Lebanon to protect the World Heritage site “Ouadi Qadisha and the Forest of the Cedars of God”
In response to the recent decision by the Lebanese Ministry of Culture to build a road through this protected cultural landscape, ICOMOS Lebanon is calling on the support of the international heritage community.
Read the statement here.
Report on ICOMOS EPWG Spring School "Learning from the Ahr Valley - Climate, Resilience and Cultural Heritage" (March 22-24, 2024)
The Emerging Professionals Working Group of ICOMOS Germany, in a spirit of collaboration and shared purpose, invited participants to a Spring School for the second time. Under the theme of 'Learning from Ahrtal - Climate, Resilience, and Heritage,' 15 students from various disciplines and countries gathered in Aachen from 22 March to 24, 2024. The workshop, a collective effort, focused on the impacts of the extreme rainfall events in the Ahr Valley in 2021.
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Position Paper on the Challenges of Monument Conservation in the Face of Climate Change
Between November 2022 and May 2023, ICOMOS Germany, the German Federal Environmental Foundation (DBU), the German Commission for UNESCO, the German National Committee for Monument Protection (DNK), the GERICS Climate Service Center Germany and the Association of Monument Offices in the Federal States (VDL) met to discuss the current challenges of heritage conservation in times of climate change. The result is a position paper on cultural heritage and climate change.
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ICOMOS Israel and ICOMOS Germany call for preservation of Red Banner Factory in St. Petersburg
ICOMOS Israel and ICOMOS Germany have joined forces to call for the complete preservation of the so-called Red Banner Factory in St. Petersburg, which is largely based on a design by Erich Mendelsohn and is currently threatened with partial demolition.
To this end, they have written a letter to the Foreign Minister and the Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation.
Read the letter here.
(Photo: S. Gorbatenko)
ICOMOS mourns Hannelore Puttinger
The German National Committee of ICOMOS e.V. mourns the passing away of its long-standing colleague Hannelore Puttinger (1939 - 2020) on 6 November.
Ms Puttinger, who grew up in Austria, worked for ICOMOS Germany from 1989, when the office moved from Mainz to Munich with the election of Michael Petzet as President. There she was mainly responsible for budget matters, membership administration and grant applications. Her responsibilities were considerably expanded when Michael Petzet was elected International President of ICOMOS in 1999, for which she benefited from her multilingualism. She retired at the end of 2004.
Members of ICOMOS Germany and worldwide appreciated not only her professional competence and reliability, but also her amiable, friendly and charming manner.
ICOMOS Germany will honour Hannelore Puttinger's memory.
(Photo: I. Cisek)
Brochure in Commemoration of Michael Petzet (1933 - 2019)
On 12 April 2020, Michael Petzet, who died on 29 May 2019, would have been 87 years old. ICOMOS Germany is taking this year's International Day of Monuments and Sites on 18 April as an opportunity to commemorate the long-standing president and honorary president of ICOMOS Germany and ICOMOS International and to make a collection of personal obituaries and memories of Michael Petzet compiled by Michael Jansen available online.
For decades, Michael Petzet and his life's work as a monument conservator and art historian followed the motto of the International Day of Monuments and Sites 2020: "Shared Cultures, Shared Heritage, Shared Responsibility".
Read the brochure here.
ICOMOS Germany mourns the death of Michael Petzet (1933-2019)
On Wednesday, 29 May 2019, the long-time President of the German National Committee of ICOMOS and former President of ICOMOS International, Prof. Dr. Michael Petzet, died unexpectedly.
Petzet was appointed Bavarian Conservator General in 1974, an office he held until 1999. From 1988 to 2012 he was President of the German National Committee of ICOMOS and from 1999 to 2008 International President of ICOMOS.
With his numerous writings and lectures, Petzet rendered outstanding services to the principles of contemporary monument conservation worldwide. As an internationally recognized expert on World Heritage issues, he was a sought-after UNESCO advisor and reviewer. He is regarded as a pioneer in the Preventive Monitoring of World Heritage sites to avoid monument conflicts and founded the ICOMOS series "Heritage at Risk".
In 2013, Petzet was awarded the Karl-Friedrich-Schinkel-Ring of the Deutsches Nationalkomitee für Denkmalschutz for his lifetime achievement.
ICOMOS Germany will always honour the memory of its honorary president.
29 October 2018, Strasbourg -- Dr. Jerzy Ilkosz receives German Prize for Monument Protection 2018
At the suggestion of the Federal Institute for Culture and History of the Germans in Eastern Europe (BKGE) and at the request of the German National Committee of ICOMOS, the "German Prize for Monument Protection 2018 – Karl-Friedrich-Schinkel-Ring" will be awarded to our ICOMOS colleague Dr. Jerzy Ilkosz (Wroclaw, Poland).
Read moreNewsletter of ICOMOS Germany 1/2017
The first Newsletter of 2017 (in German) discusses an points out a number of conferences, other events and news in the past and coming months. Please read more here.
July 2016 - ICOMOS Germany adopts Memorandum on Syria
On behalf of the Annual General Meeting of ICOMOS Germany held on 28 November 2015 the Board of the German National Committee of ICOMOS adopted a Memorandum on 22-23 July 2016 called "For the Safeguarding and Preservation of the Cultural Sites in Syria". The English version of the Memorandum can be found here.
