Johannes Busmann

Johannes Busmann (born 20 May 1961^[1]) is a German university lecturer and publisher.^[2]

Life and work

Academic career

Born in Wuppertal,^[1] Busmann passed his Abitur at today's Carl-Fuhlrott-Gymnasium [de] in Wuppertal, then studied art, music and philosophy at the University of Wuppertal.^[3] He then worked as a research assistant and in 1993 obtained his doctorate to Dr. phil. in art history with the topic The Architect Alfons Leitl [de] 1909–1975. The Revised Modernism.^[2][4] He was appointed as professor for media design and its didactics at the Wuppertal University in 2005.^[2]

Activities as editor, publisher and owner of an agency

In 1990, he founded the magazine Polis – Zeitschrift für Stadt und Baukultur, where he serves as publisher and editor-in-chief. The quarterly magazine has the current title Polis – Magazine for Urban Development and is distributed throughout Europe.^[5][6] In the same year, he founded the publishing house Müller + Busmann GmbH & Co. KG.^[2][7] Busmann founded the agency logos "Kommunikation und Gestaltung" in 1994.^[2] Then, in 2001, he founded the architecture magazine "build Das Architekten-Magazin", which was published bimonthly until 2014^[8] and for which he served as publisher and editor-in-chief.^[2][9]

Busmann was publishing director of the architecture publishing house in the Rudolf Müller publishing group in Cologne from 2000 to 2001.^[2]

Other activities

In 2002 Busmann became an appointed member of the German Academy for Urban and Regional Planning [de] (DASL)/NRW and in 2004 member and head of the Forum Marketing in the German Council of Shopping Centers [de]/ Ludwigsburg.^[2] He has been a member of the Board of Trustees of the Carl Richard Montag Förderstiftung [de] since 2005.^[2][10] In the same year, he was appointed chairman of the supervisory board of HHS Hegger Hegger Schleiff Architekten AG.^[2]

From January 2000 to May 2002, he worked as a project officer for the city of Wuppertal on the site development of the major urban development project of the Döppersberg [de] inner city.^[3][11] He was reappointed in a similar capacity by the city of Wuppertal in February 2014.^{[3][12][13][14]}