Robert Heinze began working with stage and event lighting as a teenager in the late 1990s. During his studies in electrical engineering, he co-founded an event management company and gained experience as a production manager. At the age of 24, he published a book based on this experience, which sold around 5,000 copies. As a student, he joined the VDE and the LiTG, where he is still an active member of the Leipzig-Halle district group.

After completing his degree, Heinze moved near Munich and joined the American stage lighting manufacturer ETC as a technical product manager for lighting consoles. Two years later, he returned to Leipzig and became self-employed as a lighting designer and project manager.

In 2008, he started working for the luminaire manufacturer TRILUX in Leipzig as a lighting planner. Two years later, he moved to the TRILUX headquarters in Arnsberg, North Rhine-Westphalia, as a process developer for lighting planning. In this international environment with around 120 lighting designers, he gained valuable insights into lighting processes. He also developed the company’s first internal software applications and became a founding lecturer at the TRILUX Academy, where he created seminar and examination content for the DIN-certified lighting technician program. During this time, he also began his work in standardization with DIN, CEN, ISO, and ZVEI. Later, Heinze became head of technical editing at TRILUX, where he was responsible for product data, while also publishing numerous articles and conference papers on lighting and BIM, and regularly speaking at professional events.

In 2019, Heinze joined Relux in Basel, Switzerland, as CTO, responsible for the development of all Relux products. Today, he lives with his wife and two children in a small German town directly on the Swiss border.

For more insights, see the interview with Robert Heinze about his book “BIM und Beleuchtung.” (German Version)

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