Johannes Busmann (born 20 May 1961) is a German university lecturer and publisher.

Life and work

Academic career

Born in

Wuppertal Wuppertal (; "''Wupper Dale''") is, with a population of approximately 355,000, the seventh-largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia as well as the 17th-largest city of Germany. It was founded in 1929 by the merger of the cities and to ...

, Busmann passed his

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at today's in Wuppertal, then studied art, music and philosophy at the

University of Wuppertal The University of Wuppertal (''Universität Wuppertal'') is a German scientific institution, located in Wuppertal, in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The university's official name in German is ''Bergische Universität Wuppertal'' ...

. He then worked as a

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and in 1993 obtained his

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with the topic ''The Architect 1909–1975. The Revised Modernism''. He was appointed as professor for media design and its didactics at the Wuppertal University in 2005.

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. In the same year, he founded the publishing house Müller + Busmann GmbH & Co. KG. Busmann founded the agency logos "Kommunikation und Gestaltung" in 1994. Then, in 2001, he founded the architecture magazine "build Das Architekten-Magazin", which was published bimonthly until 2014 and for which he served as publisher and editor-in-chief. Busmann was publishing director of the architecture publishing house in the Rudolf Müller publishing group in Cologne from 2000 to 2001.

Other activities

In 2002 Busmann became an appointed member of the (DASL)/NRW and in 2004 member and head of the Forum Marketing in the / Ludwigsburg. He has been a member of the Board of Trustees of the since 2005. In the same year, he was appointed chairman of the supervisory board of HHS Hegger Hegger Schleif Architekten AG. 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 inner city. He was reappointed in a similar capacity by the city of Wuppertal in February 2014.

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