Beatrice Branch Street
| Beatrice Branch Street | |
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| Ruthild Hahne's studio house , house number 1 | |
| Basic data | |
| place | Berlin |
| District | Niederschönhausen |
| Created | Late 1940s |
| Hist. Names | Street 201 |
| Connecting roads | no |
| Cross streets | Heinrich-Mann-Strasse (southwest), Homeyerstrasse (northeast) |
| use | |
| User groups | Pedestrian traffic , bicycle traffic , car traffic |
| Technical specifications | |
| Street length | 210 meters |
Beatrice-Zweig-Straße is a street in the district of Niederschönhausen in the Berlin district of Pankow . It was called Street 201 until October 15, 2014 . The 210-meter-long street connects Heinrich-Mann-Straße with Homeyerstraße and runs in a south-west-north-east direction.
history
The street was built until 1950 on a former sandpit near the Schönholzer Heide by order of the GDR government. With the 23 relatively simple houses built there, mostly of a uniform type, which had been designed by Hanns Hopp , artists living in West Germany and Berlin in particular should be won over to a life in the GDR. In addition, the street was only about 500 meters from Mayakowskiring , the former residential area of the GDR leadership. In East Berlin, two other similar settlements of the same type were created in Niederschönhausen in Waldstrasse and in Grünau an der Dahme . Even outside of Berlin, in Kleinmachnow , other artists, academics and representatives of the intellectual elite of the young GDR were able to become tenants.
In 1951, the families of the writers Erich Weinert , Willi Bredel and the graphic artist and publicist Herbert Sandberg were the first residents to move to the access road named after the development plan at 201 Street . This was later followed by the painter Max Lingner , the poet Kurt Barthel (KuBa) , the writer Kurt Stern , the lawyer Walther Neye , the historian Eduard Winter and the sculptor Ruthild Hahne , who worked here from 1953 to 1965 on a model for one of the East German A monumental monument for Ernst Thälmann commissioned by the tour , but it was never realized. Parts of the memorial model on a scale of 1:10 and 1: 2 can be viewed with other works in the Atelier-Museum.
After Erich Weinert's death in 1953, the area around Street 201 was officially named Erich-Weinert-Siedlung . It is bounded by Heinrich-Mann-, Hermann-Hesse-, Homeyer- and Leonhard-Frank-Straße. At the corner of Heinrich-Mann- and Hermann-Hesse-Straße, a memorial wall for Erich Weinert was erected in the 1960s. The singer Ernst Busch , the composer Hanns Eisler , the sculptor Theo Balden and the writer Arnold Zweig also lived here or in the immediate vicinity . In the late 1990s, the Berlin Senate placed the entire estate under a preservation order .
The district office of Pankow , responsible for the district of Niederschönhausen, decided in the 2010s to name this street after the painter Beatrice Zweig (1892–1971), the wife of Arnold Zweig. The designation project was endorsed by the Office for Further Education and Culture, Department of Museum and District History, and the biography was confirmed. After completing and implementing the implementation regulations for Section 5 of the Berlin Roads Act (AV designation), the naming ceremony took place on October 15, 2014.
Ruthild Hahne's studio in house no. 1 can be visited by prior arrangement.
Web links
- Beatrice Branch Street. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near Kaupert )
- Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
- Site plan and residents of street 201 and the adjacent streets in the 1950s. Max Lingner Foundation
Individual evidence
- ↑ Press release of the BA Pankow on the naming of the street 201. In: Berliner Zeitung , October 10, 2014, p. 19.
- ↑ Illustration of the memorial plaque for Erich Weinert
- ↑ Architectural monument complex at 201, house 1–12, Heinrich-Mann-Strasse 42, Hermann-Hesse-Strasse 77–87 (odd), Homeyerstrasse 31, 37 and 39
- ↑ Printed matter - VII-0638 (intention to name the public road 201 in the Niederschönhausen district in "Beatrice-Zweig-Strasse"): "Beatrice Zweig was born on May 27, 1892 in Berlin. At the age of 16 she met Arnold Zweig, and they married in Munich during the war in 1916. In 1920 son Michael was born and in 1924 son Adam. In the early 1930s she attended an art school and had a long study visit to Paris. In 1933 the Zweig family, politically and racially persecuted, had to flee Germany and found a home in Palestine for 15 years . The sunny land became one of the painter's most important motifs during this time, when landscape painting, watercolors and oil paintings were created in bright colors. In 1948 she went to East Germany with her husband . In May 1950 the family moved to Pankow at Homeyerstraße 13. This is where Beatrice Zweig found the necessary peace and quiet to paint. In 1950 she had a first exhibition of her landscape and portrait paintings. Another three followed by 1971. Beatrice Zweig died on October 14, 1971. "
- ↑ Beatrice Zweig (1892–1971) . In: Friday , October 17, 2014
Coordinates: 52 ° 34 ′ 27 ″ N , 13 ° 23 ′ 32 ″ E