Grimmwelt Kassel
The Grimmwelt Kassel (proper spelling: GRIMMWELT Kassel) is an exhibition house on the works, work and life of the Brothers Grimm . The exhibition house offers interactive presentations on the German dictionary , children's and house fairy tales and the life of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm . It is divided into 25 areas, which are named with words from the German dictionary. In addition, the Grimmwelt shows changing special exhibitions.
history
Palais Bellevue
The old Brothers Grimm Museum was located in the Palais Bellevue in Kassel until October 31, 2014 . In administrative terms, the palace was not defined as a museum building. In order to make the exhibits stored at different locations accessible to the public, a fundamental renovation and expansion of the palace would have been necessary. This would have required the prior definition of the purpose of use as a museum. A variety of requirements would have been the result, for example the installation or extension of a second staircase with a lift and handicapped access as well as further interventions in the historical structure of the only former city palace of the landgrave / electoral house of Hessen-Kassel, which is still largely preserved inside . For these reasons, the city of Kassel decided to build a new building on the upper vineyard , near the Hessian State Museum and the Museum for Sepulchral Culture .
Pre-planning
In 2011, the city of Kassel announced an architectural competition, which was won by the Aachen architects Kadawittfeldarchitektur. Thus, in January 2012, the building design of the new building was determined and the building permit process initiated. The first groundbreaking took place on August 21, 2013. Construction work began on September 3, 2013.
Naming
Shortly afterwards, Kassel's Lord Mayor Bertram Hilgen called on the city's citizens to suggest names for the new Grimm Museum. 270 proposals were submitted and voted on in October 2013. The jury announced on October 22nd that the new building would be called "Grimm World Kassel", whereupon the logo design of the Frankfurt office Heine / Lenz / Zizka with the inscription: GRIMM WELT KASSEL was presented to the public on February 26th, 2014 .
Archaeological finds
Archaeological finds were made in the spring of 2014 during the ongoing construction work . 450 individual parts were excavated and assembled into a total of around 180 exhibits. Among the finds were, for example, poultry shears, bowls and gilded glasses. After an investigation it turned out that the pieces belonged to the Henschel family . The household utensils date from around 1945 from the small Henschel villa on the vineyard, which was destroyed in the Second World War.
completion
At the topping-out ceremony in June 2014, the Grimmwelt took part in the Kassel Museum Night as a construction site.
During the external construction work on the building in 2014, the company Holzer Kobler Architekturen designed the museum rooms according to the exhibition concept of the Swiss office hürlimann + lepp exhibitions. The Grimmwelt, estimated at 20 million euros in construction costs and also realized with this sum, was opened on September 4, 2015 after two years of construction. The museum manager from Dresden , Susanne Völker, became the managing director and was instrumental in the entire development and construction phase.
Visitors
On the opening weekend (Friday 4th to Sunday 6th September 2015) 15,000 people visited the Grimmwelt exhibition center. With this, a good fifth of the number of visitors had already been reached, which had been targeted by Mayor Bertram Hilgen with 80,000 visitors per year. Around a year after it opened, over 150,000 people had already visited the Grimmwelt. Around half of the guests came from Kassel and the region, around a quarter from the rest of Germany and a further quarter from abroad. In 2017, the Grimmwelt was one of the venues for documenta 14 .
Exhibition house
The building, which is expressly not referred to as a museum but as an exhibition building, has a total floor space of around 4,000 m², which is spread over five floors. The exhibition area covers 1,600 m². 250 m² are available for the foyer, shop and service area and 65 m² for exhibition pedagogy. The freely accessible roof has an area of 2,000 m². Attached to the foyer and also freely accessible is the Falada café-restaurant, which is named after a character from Grimm's fairy tale The Goose Girl, on 175 m² . The Grimmwelt exhibition areas are located on the two basement floors. The foyer, shop, restaurant and function rooms are on the ground floor and the special exhibition with changing themes is on the upper floor. The roof terrace can be reached via two flight of stairs on the front and rear of the building or with an elevator from the foyer.
Adventure space Grimmwelt
Through the Grimmwelt adventure space, visitors are guided from themed corridors to themed rooms that are marked with large illuminated letters, whereby the routes through the exhibition are by no means strictly specified. So you can get from Ä (like little ass) to Z (like slip of paper), sometimes in a detour, and cross the following areas:
The world of language and words
- FROTEUFEL: The history of the German dictionary
- WORD WORK: The infinite combinatorics of language
- SPRACHBAUWERK: The whole variety of the German dictionary
The German dictionary of the Brothers Grimm and the German language are the focus of this section on 330 m². It is connected to the adjacent departments Kosmos and Labor through a module with a staging of the German dictionary. For this purpose, a differentiated range of games, knowledge and experiment stations is offered, whereby the visitors themselves should take action to find out which techniques the Brothers Grimm used to master the verbosity of the German language.
Cosmos and laboratory
Here the Brothers Grimm are presented as scholars of language and literature, law and politics, and their impact to this day is also conveyed to the visitor.
The world of imagination and images - fairy tale world
Here four fairy tale rooms, each 125 m² in size, designed by artists and designers, are staged. This includes a multi-vision cinema in which excerpts from film adaptations of Grimm's fairy tales are shown in an endless loop on two projection surfaces.
- THORN HEDGE: Through the thorn hedge into the world of fairy tales
- LISTEN TO THE TELL: The sound of Grimm's fairy tales around the world
- WOOD ROOT: The roots of the artist Ai Weiwei
The world of the Brothers Grimm
- LIFE RUNNER: The biography of the Brothers Grimm in their own words
- NACHLASZ: Some of Grimm's household goods, furniture, dishes and other things
- QUITTE: The traditional cuisine of the Brothers Grimm in words and pictures
Treasury
In the foreground of this department is the UNESCO World Document Heritage - the hand copies of children's and household tales - as well as the complete collection of all foreign language publications in book form.
Awards
There were several awards for the architecture of the building:
- Construction of the year 2015 by the architecture magazine German Architects
- polis Award 2016 for urban and real estate development by the specialist magazine polis. Winner in the category "Livable open space"
reception
- The British newspaper The Guardian put the Grimmwelt Kassel on its list of the ten best new museums worldwide in 2015
- Winner Marketing Prize 2016 "german brand award" in the category culture and NGO (non-governmental organizations)
- Commendation for Weinberg Areal with GRIMMWELT at the German Urban Development Award 2016
literature
Die Grimmwelt: From little asses to notes , ed. from the city of Kassel, in collaboration with Annemarie Hürlimann and Nicole Lepp, Sieveking, Munich / Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-944874-23-4 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Archive link ( memento of the original from January 9, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Archive link ( memento of the original from January 9, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://www.stadt-kassel.de/imperia/md/content/cms01/projekte/grimmwelt/pm_grimmwelt_kadawittfeldarchitektur.pdf
- ↑ From HNA.de of October 22, 2013: Grimm Museum on Kassel vineyard: House should be called "Grimm World"
- ↑ From HNA.de of February 26, 2014: Grimmwelt has a new design
- ↑ http://www.hna.de/lokales/kassel/funde-grimmwelt-bauarbeiten-schale-liefert-hinweise-bombenangriff-3423972.html From HNA.de of March 19, 2014: Finds at Grimmwelt construction work: Shell delivers Evidence of bomb attack
- ↑ http://www.stadt-kassel.de/imperia/md/content/cms01/projekte/grimmwelt/150907_hka_pm_grimmwelt_de__2_.pdf
- ↑ http://www.stadt-kassel.de/projekte/grimm-welt/
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from October 18, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Hessischer Rundfunk online October 22, 2015
- ↑ Grimmwelt Kassel and Weinberg-Terrassen . ( documenta14.de [accessed on May 10, 2018]).
- ↑ http://www.stadt-kassel.de/projekte/grimm-welt/ City of Kassel Projects
- ↑ Archive link ( memento of the original from January 9, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Bistro Falada
- ↑ Brothers Grimm overall concept
- ↑ From HNA.de of February 3, 2016: Grimmwelt in Kassel is "Building of the Year 2015"
- ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2015/dec/21/10-best-new-museums-new-york-venice-germany
Coordinates: 51 ° 18 ′ 33.1 ″ N , 9 ° 29 ′ 21.4 ″ E