Bonjour Tristesse (building)

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Residential house "Bonjour Tristesse" in Berlin-Kreuzberg

The Schlesisches Tor residential building , known as Bonjour Tristesse , is a Berlin building around a hundred meters south-east of the Schlesisches Tor subway station at 7 Schlesische Strasse at the corner of Falckensteinstrasse 4 in the Kreuzberg district .

The house designed by Álvaro Siza Vieira was realized as part of the 1987 International Building Exhibition in Berlin . The multi-family house is one of the main works of the IBA 87 and was Siza Vieira's first foreign project.

Conception and creation

The Schlesisches Tor residential building was built in 1982/1983 and closes a war gap in the old buildings on the street. The owner was initially Kleistpark Hausverwaltung GmbH, which was founded in 1979 and went bankrupt in 1986 .

The Siza Vieiras design provided for four large apartments per floor, which should be accessible via four stairwells , and various social facilities were to be integrated into the ground floor . For cost reasons, however, the plan was modified, windows and ceiling heights were reduced in order to create more space for apartments. There are currently two stairwells through which 46 apartments on six floors can be reached.

There is no recognizably detached base zone or a roof termination, as was customary in the surrounding architecture 90 years older. The only variation is a slightly curved design and a high, provided with an eye-shaped opening attic achieved.

The house was named Bonjour Tristesse not from the architect, but from strangers who painted these words on the clearly visible gable of the corner house in 1984 before the scaffolding was removed. The name painted on the wall is reminiscent of the novel Bonjour tristesse (1954) and its film adaptation of the same name from 1958. The graffito is possibly to be understood as a criticism of the gray facade and the monotonous window designs with constant intervals within the varied street scene. In addition, when the house was being built in West Berlin, it was around 100 meters from the Berlin Wall , which contributed to the sadness of the surrounding district.

Since 2012, the red lettering "BITTE LƎBN" (with an anarchy A attached ) can be seen on the house .

Inspired by the name, the song Bonjour Tristesse of the same name by the music band BAARK was created in this house in 2014 .

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Consciously unadorned. In: Berliner Zeitung , February 19, 2005
  2. ↑ Hans-Jürgen Mende, Kurt Wernicke (Ed.): Berlin District Lexicon Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg; Keyword: Bonjour Tristesse house . Haude & Spencer, Berlin 2003, pp. 402 f., ISBN 3-7759-0474-3 .
  3. ↑ The Wrangelkiez. ( Memento of the original from May 30, 2013 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. In: Zitty , June 1, 2011  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.zitty.de
  4. ↑ Please Lebn. In: taz , May 12, 2012
  5. ↑ Bonjour Tristesse. YouTube , accessed November 23, 2019 .

Coordinates: 52 ° 29 ′ 59.8 "  N , 13 ° 26 ′ 36.6"  E