--- title: "Midgard" url: "https://www.stylepark.com/en/manufacturer/midgard" language: "en" type: "manufacturer" description: "Individual designer items from Midgard ✓ Wide range of products & designs ➜ Get inspired now" published: "2018-03-06T15:17:00+01:00" modified: "2025-07-02T14:18:10+02:00" image: "https://www.stylepark.com/apple-touch-icon.png" --- # Midgard ![](https://www.stylepark.com/assets/articles/midgard_logo.png) Philosophy “We later envied the inventors of the Midgard lamp’s arm. Our lamps were adjustable too, but they simply weren’t as elegant.” Marianne Brandt, Bauhaus The man whose lamps lit both the metal workshop and the artists’ studios at the Bauhaus started his career as the owner of an engine works: Curt Fischer, today regarded as one of the greatest 20th-century inventors. In 1919, he not only took over the Industriewerk Auma based in Thuringia, adding “Ronneberger & Fischer” to the company’s name in commemoration of Konrad Ronneberger who had established the factory in 1912 and had been killed three years later in the war: he also founded the Midgard brand in 1919. With the end of WWI, industrialisation picked up pace again. People worked long hours until late in the evening. The then-typical lamps cast light from above only, with the effect that the shadow of the worker’s body and head would obscure the piece he was working on. For an inventor like Curt Fischer, who had transformed horse-drawn coaches into mobile radio stations during the war and who had participated in the development of the communication devices for the Zeppelin, this situation posed an intriguing challenge. It wouldn’t take him long to come up with a solution: in November 1919, his famous Scherenleuchte (Scissorarm Lamp) was born. Using the new Midgard brand name, this design was soon to be followed by other new types of lamps: the Lenklampen (Adjustable Lamps) with the model numbers 113 and 114, both of which would soon be found in the metal workshop of the Dessau Bauhaus, and the Maschinenleuchte (Machine Lamp). With the development of these adjustable lamps, Curt Fischer became the inventor of directional light. But that wasn’t all: in 1922, he created the first glare-free reflector (rotatable and asymmetrical) for perfectly directed light. Walter Gropius was a big fan of the Midgard lamps. He and Fischer exchanged letters between 1927 and 1931. Gropius’ successor at the Bauhaus in Dessau, Hannes Meyer, was just as thrilled and had the reading rooms of the General German Trade Union Confederation in Bernau near Berlin fitted with Midgard lamps. When Curt Fischer passed away in 1956, his son Wolfgang took over, heading the company until, after the founding of the GDR, Ronneberger & Fischer was taken under state control. The company was restructured and renamed: VEB Industrieleuchtenbau Auma became the production department of VEB Raumleuchte Zeulenroda. The publicly owned operation produced Curt Fischer’s Machine Lamp, albeit to an inferior standard of quality, and also another internationally successful lamp: the Spring-balanced Lamp which was produced for a Swedish furniture retailer. After German reunification, the company was reprivatised and given back to Wolfgang Fischer, who continued to operate the business under the name Midgard-Licht. In addition to the Spring-balanced Lamps, he also produced the Machine Lamp again, largely in keeping with his father’s original design. However, Wolfgang did not manage to run the company in a commercially successful way. It was his stepdaughter, Anja Specht, who, supported by her sister Susi Reifenstahl, restructured the business and headed the company from 2002 to 2008. But, after Anja left the business, the company went downhill again. In 2015, David Einsiedler and Joke Rasch, the founders of Hamburg-based furniture and lighting company PLY, acquired the rights to the Midgard brand, including all existing tools and lamp parts, as well as the large company archive. Their mission: to bring Curt Fischer’s inventions back onto the market and to give them the success they deserve. Since January 2017, the production of the lamps has restarted in Hamburg. Almost 100 years of history in lamp design and production are now being continued in the spirit of the great Curt Fischer. Features [ORGATEC 2024 – REVIEW Nervously in the flow 10/24/2024 How do we want to work in the future? What do we need for this? And which topics are crucial for the industry? Every two years, Orgatec, the leading international trade fair for modern working environments, provides an insight into the ideas and concerns that set the tone in the minds of creative professionals and entrepreneurs. Our review.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/orgatec-2024-koelnmesse-review-design-working-worlds-crisis-industry-stylepark-magazine) [IMM COLOGNE 2020 Take a bow 1/13/2020 The new kid on the block goes by the name of AYNO. Together with Stefan Diez and Lina Fischer of Diez Office Midgard is ushering in a new era. This luminaire family is the company’s first updated design since the 1950s.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/midgard-diez-office-imm-cologne-2020-ayno) [STYLEPARK RAFFLE Shine a light on it 2/7/2019 Directional light is turning 100. 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