until 1994 studied architecture at the TU Braunschweig and the University of Stuttgart
1992/93 MSc Light and Lighting Course, The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London
1994 Bartenbach LightLab, Innsbruck
1995 Office management Bartenbach LichtLabor, Berlin
1997 Kardorff Engineers Lighting Design
since 2011 Honorary professor at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam, Lighting Design Department
Awards
2023
Lighting Designer of the Year
2020
Lighting Designer of the Year
2013
German Lighting Design Award: Lighting Designer of the Year
2011
German Lighting Design Award; category: public areas, street lighting for the project: Marketplace Neubrandenburg
Finalist German Lighting Design Award, Category: Museum, Project: Neues Museum Berlin
Finalist Lighting Design Awards, Category: International Project, Neues Museum, Berlin
2010
State Building Award Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Lighting Design Market Square Neubrandenburg
Lectures and exhibitions
2025: Opening lecture at LICHT 25, Oldenburg on ‘Light is design x technology’
2024: Lecture at Staatsbibliothek Unter den Linden, Berlin on ‘Light in the city’
02/2011 ETP Anniversary Congress Street Lighting 2011, "So leuchtet Berlin in Zukunft! Entwicklung einer Ausführungsvorschrift." Lecture Schréder, Liège, "LED als Herausforderung aus Sicht des Lichtplaners".
11/2010 Plan Lumière symposium, Winterthur, "Licht in der Stadt".
09/2010 LUCI Annual General Meeting in Chartres on "LUCI Charter for Urban Lighting"
06/2010 6th Euroforum Street Lighting Conference
09/2009 Dubai Symposium, "Smart lighting concepts and LED technology and Design".
04/2009 Bienal de Canarias, Seminar Light Landscapes, Presentation
Skip to main content
Skip to main navigation
Skip to footer