Peter Heck Greetings from South Africa

Peter Heck had already worked as a trained architect when he came to Ulm from South Africa. Actually, all "new Ulmers" without exception had to complete the standard basic course at the HfG - regardless of their previous education. However, Peter Heck managed to switch to the Information Department, the department that he expected to be the most innovative.Here are some excerpts from emails to the editors:

 

After completion of architecture at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, I came to the hfg grundlehre 1958, as an exchange student. But after a few months of frustration and disappointment, I joined the group Information. The lectures of Hanno Kesting were fascinating for a "refugee" from Apartheid South Africa.

Because of the very limited time at the hfg and follow-up, I regret that I can‘t write a contribution. I still remember inter-personal relations very well, and would send greetings to Fred Weidmann.

 

 

I remember that Gui Bonsiepe and I acted as interpreters for a lecturer from the UK (about the fashion of the royal king developing into massed-produced fashions for the modern consumers). We were the only ones at the hfg who talked a passable English.

I liked Ilse Grubrich with her high-heels in the pastoral setting of the hfg. I invited her to a meal in a restaurant at the Bahnhof. But as a guy from the African bush we didn‘t talk that much.