This study is an attempt to explore the multifarious aspects of Karl Friedrich Schinkel

In this thesis I consider Karl Friedrich Schinkel's The Hall of Stars in the Palace of the Queen of the Night (1813), a set design of Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute), in relation to female audiences during a time of Germanic nationalism. Although Schinkel is customarily known as the great modern architect of Germany, his work as a set designer is exceedingly telling of his feelings toward the political and geographical unification of the Germanic regions. Through his set designs, Schinkel successfully used the influential space of the theatre to articulate not only nationalism, but positive female empowerment in his allegorical depiction of woman. However, the popularity of the theatre as an educational tool for women during the early nineteenth-century has remained largely overlooked. Additionally, the evil nature of the Queen of the Night in Emanuel Schikaneder's libretto has made the differentiation of Schinkel's positive figural interpretation essentially unnoticed. Though scholars have addressed Schinkel's aesthetic in terms of nationalism, the incorporation of allegorical women into his work and their responsibilities within this movement remains understudied. This thesis discusses the vision of nationalism as not necessarily an ideology of politics, but rather an ideology of religion and a unified culture. Through the German Romantic notion of the Eternal Feminine and the expanding study of maternal feminism, this thesis discusses the acknowledgement of the encouraging roles of women morally, spiritually, and nationalistically during a significant political time in Germany's history. Additionally, discussion of the theatre as a popular nationalistic institution for education allowed Schinkel's design for Die Zauberflöte to specifically engage and connect female viewers with nationalism. I attempt to show how all of these contextual ideologies were expressed through the allegorical female. Furthermore, in recognition of female viewers through allegory, Schinkel's The Hall of Stars expressed an empowerment of the feminine role within the drive for national unification.

In wissenschaftsgeschichtlicher Hinsicht ist die Zeit um 1800 durch eine grundlegende Modifikation der fachbezogenen Diskurse ausgewiesen. Dies gilt auch für die Auseinandersetzung mit Architektur, die zu dieser Zeit von einer Ablösung von älteren Wissenschaftsmodellen und von einem erheblichen Wissenszuwachs geprägt war. Die ersten Jahrzehnte des 19. Jahrhunderts erscheinen als Zeitraum des Umbruchs für eine Einschätzung der Diskurskultur um so gewichtiger, als auch Lehrkonzeptionen der Architektenausbildung entwickelt wurden, Zeitschriften neuartige Formen der Kommunikation und Entwicklungen im Buchdruck eine Vielzahl von Publikationen ermöglichten. Als exemplarische Untersuchung behandelt die vorliegende Arbeit Kenntnisse und Methoden im Architekturdiskurs des frühen 19. Jahrhunderts am Beispiel des Architekten Karl Friedrich Schinkel. Das Lehrkonzept der später als Bauakademie bezeichneten Ausbildungsinstitution in Berlin und die Publikationen ihrer Lehrenden werden dabei als eine mögliche Form der Zusammenstellung und Aufbereitung von Wissen untersucht. Sie erlauben zugleich, die um 1800 für die Architektenausbildung als maßgeblich angesehenen Publikationen über Architektur zu erschließen. Bis in Einzelheiten lassen sich am Werk Karl Friedrich Schinkels die Folgen dieser Lehre nachvollziehen; Ordnungssysteme und Visualisierungsverfahren erweisen sich dabei als besonders relevant. Die Diskurse wurden aufgrund der Ausprägung der historisch-kritischen Architekturgeschichtsschreibung seit dem mittleren 19. Jahrhundert überlagert. Nach einer Einleitung zu Begriffen, Methoden und Konventionen im Architekturdiskurs des frühen 19. Jahrhunderts gehen die beiden Hauptkapitel der Arbeit darum von Publikationen in Berlin tätiger Kunsthistoriker des mittleren 19. Jahrhunderts aus, die die Architekturgeschichtsschreibung und die Rezeption des Werkes Schinkels geprägt haben. Vor diesem Hintergrund werden die zuvor maßgeblichen Diskurse exemplarisch erläutert. / In a historical scientific context, the period around 1800 is distinguished by a fundamental change in scientific discourses. This also applies to the controversies within architecture, which at this time were marked by a detachment from the the older scientific models and by a significant growth in scientific knowledge. The first decades of the 19th century seem that much more important as a period of upheaval for an assessment of the culture of discourse, because at the same time teaching concepts for architectural training were being developed, periodicals were enabling new forms of communication and developments in book printing were facilitating a multiplicity of publications. As a generic investigation, the present work deals with the knowledge and methods in the architectural discourse of the early 19th century using as an example the architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel. The teaching concept of the training institute in Berlin, which was later called Berlin Building Academy (Bauakademie), and the publication of its lecturers, are examined as a possible embodiment of the compilation and assembly of scientific knowledge. They can also be used to find out, which publications about architecture were regarded as the definitive works around 1800 for architectural training. The consequences of this teaching can be traced in detail from the work of Karl Friedrich Schinkel; classification systems and visualisation processes prove to be particularly relevant in this regard. The discourses were overlaid with the characteristics of architectural historiography since the mid 19th century. After an introduction to the concepts, methods and conventions in architectural discourse in the early 19th century, the two main chapters of the work are based on publications of in Berlin active art historians of the mid 19th century, who defined architectural historiography and the perception of the work of Schinkel. The definitive discourses are exemplified against this background.