Michael Erlhoff

Michael Erlhoff is a German design expert, art theoretician and author. In 1991, he was appointed Founding Dean of the Koeln International School of Design in Cologne where he taught design history and design theory until 2013. Since 2016, he has been an Honorary Professor at the Braunschweig University of Art/HBK Braunschweig. Together with Uta Brandes, he is the co-founder and director of be design, a design consultancy office, based in Cologne, Germany. Michael Erlhoff studied at the University of Hanover (Germany), where he completed his PhD in German Literature and Sociology. During his studies he also worked as assistant producer at the Staatstheater Hannover. He worked for several years as research assistant at the University of Hanover, together with Uta Brandes he published the magazine ‘zweitschrift’; he was editor-in-chief of the art magazine K; he published, among other things, an annual Kurt Schwitters Almanach for more than ten years and he was a member of the advisory committee for documenta 8 (1985-1987).