Bertolt-Brecht-Platz
| Bertolt-Brecht-Platz | |
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 View of the square with the Berliner Ensemble and the Brecht monument |
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| Basic data | |
| place | Berlin |
| District | center |
| Created | 20th century |
| Confluent streets |
Schiffbauerdamm (south) , Am Zirkus (east) , nameless footpath (north) , access road to Bertolt-Brecht-Platz (west) |
| Buildings | Berlin Ensemble |
| use | |
| User groups | pedestrian |
| Space design | 1988, after 1990 |
| Technical specifications | |
| Square area | 3000 m² |
The Bertolt-Brecht-Platz is a 3,500 square meter square in Berlin district center of the district of the same within the historic district of Friedrich-Wilhelm-Stadt . He has been called Bertolt Brechts since 1963.
location
Bertolt-Brecht-Platz is bounded to the west by the Berliner Ensemble , to the north by the apartment house Am Zirkus 1, to the east by the street Am Zirkus, and to the south by Schiffbauerdamm .
Explanation of the name
On February 10, 1963, the square was solemnly named after the poet Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956). Brecht worked in the adjacent Berliner Ensemble from 1954 until his death.
history
The present square was built on until the end of the Second World War. The street Am Zirkus ran roughly in the middle to its confluence with Schiffbauerdamm. The Neue Theater , Schiffbauerdamm 4a, built in 1892 according to plans by Heinrich Seeling , can be reached via a driveway between the house at Schiffbauerdamm No. 5. and No. 3, the Hotel Hermes. The corner buildings had house numbers 2/3, 4a / 5, 6/7 and 8/9.
After the ruins had been cleared, they were not built on again and when the theater building was converted into the Berliner Ensemble (BE) in 1954, the forecourt of the theater was expanded, the street Am Zirkus was re-routed, a lawn was created and some trees were planted. Bertolt Brecht, writer and director at the BE for many years, was honored by a decision of the East Berlin magistrate a few years after his death with the assignment of his name to the place in front of his place of work.
At that time there was still the Friedrichstadtpalast on the north side of the square , originally a market hall built by Hitzig in 1868 , which was converted into a circus building with 5,000 seats in 1873, became the Great Playhouse from 1919 under the director Max Reinhardt , and was named Theater des Volkes in 1934 received and served for operetta performances . From 1947 it was the revue theater Friedrichstadtpalast until it was closed in 1980 due to building damage. The demolition took place in 1985.
In 1988 the monument for Bertolt Brecht was inaugurated on the occasion of Brecht's 90th birthday based on a design by Peter Flierl on the rear part of the square. The bronze monument was created by the sculptor Fritz Cremer , the steles by the stonemason Carl Wloch. A small triangular lawn and trees planted on three sides form the green areas of the square. The Südpanke runs under the area between the Brecht monument and the theater and flows into the Spree at Schiffbauerdamm .
In place of the Friedrichstadtpalast, the ten-storey Yoo Berlin apartment building was built in 2011 according to plans by BRT architects Bothe Richter. The Ganymed restaurant, founded in 1931, is located on the western corner of the square, at Schiffbauerdamm 5 . In total, more than nine companies had settled at Bertolt-Brecht-Platz by 2016.
Web links
- Bertolt-Brecht-Platz. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near Kaupert )
- Lothar Heinke : One square meter on the Spree for 25,000 euros. In: Der Tagesspiegel , December 5, 2014.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bertolt-Brecht-Platz. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near Kaupert )
- ↑ Berlin honors Bertolt Brecht . In: Berliner Zeitung , February 11, 1963, p. 1
- ↑ BE website , accessed on October 1, 2019
- ↑ The street situation and development overview at the location of the later Bertolt-Brecht-Platz in the Straube plan from 1910. accessed on July 13, 2016.
- ↑ Schiffbauerdamm . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1911, III, p. 749.
- ↑ Berlin city map 1954 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. with a visible green area between the theater on Schiffbauerdamm (= Th. in the district) and the old Friedrichstadtpalast .
- ↑ accessed October 1, 2019
- ↑ Dorothee Dubrau: Architekturführer Berlin-Mitte , Volume 2, Berlin 2009, ( ISBN 978-3-938666-07-4 ), p. 702
Coordinates: 52 ° 31 '19.8 " N , 13 ° 23' 11.9" E