Dieter Oesterlen

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Portrait relief on the grave slab

Dieter Oesterlen (born April 5, 1911 in Heidenheim an der Brenz , † April 6, 1994 in Hanover ) was a German architect and university professor .

Life

Grave site at the Engesohde city cemetery

Dieter Oesterlen was born in Swabia as the son of the engineer Fritz Oesterlen . His father became professor for water turbine technology at the Technical University of Hanover in 1917 and later became its rector. Dieter Oesterlen grew up in Hanover, where he graduated from the Goethe Gymnasium in 1930 . After studying architecture in Stuttgart (with Paul Schmitthenner ) and in Berlin (here with Heinrich Tessenow and Hans Poelzig ) in 1939 he became an independent architect. In this function he was involved in the construction of war-important factories in Berlin from 1939 to 1945.

In 1945 he returned to Hanover and received the first order there in 1946: first to secure the ruins of the Hanoverian market church and then to rebuild it. His first new building was the Kröpcke café in the center of Hanover. This marked the start of Oesterlen's career, which included a very wide range of buildings, especially during the 1950s to 1980s. Dieter Oesterlen was "one of the most influential and most busy architects in Hanover after 1945". He was responsible for the reconstruction and redesign of numerous buildings in the Lower Saxony state capital after the Second World War. He was friends with Hanover's city planning officer, Rudolf Hillebrecht . It was not until he was eighty that Dieter Osterlen completed his last commission, the Neue Wasserkunst in Hanover. From 1953 to 1976 he also taught as a professor for building theory and design at the Technical University of Braunschweig . With his colleagues there, Friedrich Wilhelm Kraemer and Walter Henn , he shaped the so-called " Braunschweiger Schule " and thus a pioneering understanding of the architecture of the early Federal Republic. He has received numerous prizes, including the Fritz Schumacher Prize for Architecture in 1979 and the Heinrich Tessenow Medal in 1980 and the Lower Saxony Prize for Culture in 1981. Since 1966, Oesterlen was a member of the Berlin Academy of the Arts .

Two of Dieter Oesterlen's works in Hanover were to be demolished in the meantime. Since the money for the preservation of monuments was missing, the decision was made to replace both the plenary hall of the Lower Saxony state parliament and the IBM building on Hamburger Allee with new buildings. The administration building of the computer company was completed in 1969 by Oesterlen, and the architecture of the post-war period could already be seen on the facade.

The demolition of the plenary hall was not carried out after a closer examination revealed considerable additional costs for the new building compared to renovation and conversion.

Dieter Oesterlen's grave is in the Engesohde city cemetery (Department 1) in Hanover. A path in the Kirchrode district is named after him.

Oesterlen was married to the architect Eva Freise for the first time and had three children with her. In his second marriage, he was married to Eva-Maria Stroedel (1920–2011), who brought a son into the marriage. After his death, his widow was committed to preserving his work.

Buildings (selection)

(mostly based on: Dieter Oesterlen: Buildings and Texts 1946–1991. Tübingen 1992.)

Twelve Apostles Church in Hildesheim
German military cemetery Futapass
Historical Museum Hannover , street front on Burgstrasse
IBM house in Hanover, Hamburger Allee (not preserved)

Reconstruction of structures

Church buildings

Cemetery buildings

The impressive work, sometimes described as landscape art, is considered by experts to be one of the most remarkable examples of modern landscape architecture .
  • 1968: German military cemetery in Tunis

Hall buildings, meeting places, cinemas

Museum buildings

School buildings

  • 1956–1958: Wilhelm Busch School in Hanover-Ricklingen
  • 1957–1959: Chemistry lecture hall at the Technical University of Braunschweig
  • 1960: Arndtstrasse elementary school in Bochum
  • 1960–1962: Andreanum grammar school in Hildesheim

Administrative buildings

  • 1949–1955: Broadcasting house of the NWDR / NDR on the Maschsee in Hanover (with Friedrich Wilhelm Kraemer and Gerd Lichtenhahn)

Traffic structures

  • 1953: Autobahn filling station "Am Blauen See" near Garbsen (on the A 2 )

Residential buildings and other construction tasks

  • 1954: House with notary's office of the Wöckener family in Elze near Hildesheim
  • 1955–1956: Tropical house in Hanover Zoo
  • 1958–1960: Nurse house of the children's hospital in Hanover, Ellernstrasse
  • 1959: House K. in Horn (Lippe)
  • 1959–1960: Oesterlen summer house in Isernhagen near Hanover
  • 1962: Hotel Rose on the market square in Hildesheim. Demolished in the mid-1980s for the reconstruction of the bone carver office.
  • 1963–1964: High-rise residential buildings in Wolfsburg- Detmerode
  • 1974–1975: "Bischof Stählin" retirement center in Oldenburg
  • 1989: Fountain on the Concordia Insurance building in Hanover, Karl-Wiechert-Allee
  • 1989–1991: New water art on Friederikenplatz in Hanover

Quotes

“I accept the tendency of“ displacement ”contained in Günter Grass's speech on assessing the post-war period, but not all of the details related to it. One of them is the statement by Grass of a "repression", which is valid in many respects, but must not be applied to the turning of visual artists to abstract art, to which Grass apparently has no access - or should it be because too early a political assessment of a time phenomenon led to this false conclusion? "

"In the first post-war period, this turn to non-representationalism in the visual arts was not a repression, but a liberation from the previously prescribed, vague realism of the National Socialist era."

"The same thing happened in architecture, in which we were happy about the same liberation from the realistic blood and soil rubbish or from the state-representative 34th infusion of a threadbare classicism and worked in - let's call it - abstract cubism."

“Throughout my life I have repeatedly encountered confronting historical buildings with new ones. Whether it was the work of restoring or completing it, I have always found it to be a force-measuring dialogue between the times and the architects, in which I hope I have never forgotten the respect for the builder who worked before me. "

Media reports

  • Anne Schmedding: Architekten Leben / Dieter Oesterlen and his work between tradition and modernity / The balcony facade of the hotel on Thielenplatz, the German embassy in Buenos Aires or the reconstruction of the Marktkirche: Dieter Oesterlen designed more than just the state parliament. Art historian Anne Schmedding on the architect. In: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung of April 3, 2010; last accessed online on July 3, 2014

literature

  • Alexander Koch: Dieter Oesterlen. Buildings and planning 1946–1963. Koch, Stuttgart 1964. (= Buildings and Planning , Volume 2; ISSN  0522-5051 )
  • Dieter Oesterlen: Buildings and Texts. 1946-1991. Wasmuth, Tübingen 1992, ISBN 3-8030-0153-6 .
  • Udo Weilacher : An architectural landscape sculpture . Military cemetery at Paso la Futa, Italy. In: Udo Weilacher: Visionary Gardens. The modern landscapes by Ernst Cramer. Birkhäuser, Basel 2001, ISBN 3-7643-6568-4 .
  • Helmut Knocke : Dieter Oesterlen. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen : Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , pp. 273-274.
  • Frank Dengler: Building in a historical setting. The architects Dieter Oesterlen, Gottfried Böhm and Karljosef Schattner. (= Studies on Art History. Volume 151.) Olms, Hildesheim 2003, ISBN 3-487-11882-3 , pp. 43–254 (about Oesterlen's reconstruction projects, Marktkirche Hannover, Lower Saxony State Parliament and Historical Museum Hannover and the Daniel-Pöppelmann-Haus in Herford)
  • Anne Schmedding: Dieter Oesterlen (1911–1994). Tradition and contemporary space. (= Research on post-war modernism), Ernst Wasmuth Verlag, Tübingen 2011, ISBN 978-3-8030-0744-5
  • Michael F. Feldkamp : The Lower Saxony State Parliament as a symbol for democratic building? In: Julia Schwanholz / Patrick Theiner (eds.), The political architecture of German parliaments, Of houses, castles and palaces, Wiesbaden 2020, ISBN 978-3-658-29330-7 , pp. 229–242.

See also

Web links

Commons : Dieter Oesterlen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ H. Knocke, p. 272.
  2. ↑ Article , accessed August 24, 2011
  3. ↑ Article overview , accessed on September 19, 2013
  4. ↑ Simon Benne: The fighter. In: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung of February 23, 2011, p. 15.
  5. ↑ Bauen + Wohnen , Issue 2/1964 ( digitized version )
  6. ↑ Bauen + Wohnen , Issue 11/1958 ( digitized version )
  7. ↑ Bauen + Wohnen , Issue 12/1961 ( digitized version )
  8. ↑ History Stephanus community on holsterhausen.org
  9. ^ F. Dové: Futa-Pass military cemetery . In: Anthos - Zeitschrift für Landschaftsarchitektur , Issue 6/1967 ( digitized version )
  10. ↑ Bauen + Wohnen , Issue 2/1959 ( digitized version )
  11. ↑ Bauen + Wohnen , Issue 4/1966 ( digitized version )
  12. ↑ Bauen + Wohnen , Issue 11/1963 ( digitized version )
  13. ↑ Bauen + Wohnen , Issue 6/1952 ( digitized version )
  14. ↑ volkswagenstiftung.de / imprint
  15. ↑ Concrete slab next to the main entrance of the building
  16. ↑ Bauen + Wohnen , Issue 1/1972 ( digitized version )
  17. ↑ Greven Town Hall. In: arch INFORM ; accessed on March 15, 2018.
  18. ↑ Bauen + Wohnen , Issue 7/1953 ( digitized version )
  19. ↑ Glasforum , 6/1959
  20. ↑ Bauen + Wohnen , Issue 3/1963 ( digitized version )
  21. ^ Nicole Froberg, Ulrich Knufinke, Susanne Kreykenboom: Wolfsburg. The architecture guide. Braun Publishing, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-03768-055-1 , p. 108.
  22. ↑ Dieter Oesterlen: On a speech by Günter Grass. Contribution to the discussion in the Berlin Academy of the Arts on May 8, 1985. In: Oesterlen: Buildings and Texts. P. 250.
  23. ↑ Dieter Oesterlen: Interview with Mr. Stöckmann. Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung and “Kulturspiegel” of the NDR, December 1, 1990. In: Oesterlen: Buildings and texts. P. 257.
personal data
SURNAME Oesterlen, Dieter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH April 5, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Heidenheim an der Brenz
DATE OF DEATH April 6, 1994
Place of death Hanover