Christian Enzmann
Christian Enzmann (born July 20, 1951 in Leipzig ) is a German architect .
After completing his military service with the NVA, Enzmann studied architecture from 1971 to 1975 at the University of Architecture and Construction in Weimar . He then worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Urban Development and Architecture at the German Building Academy until 1984 .
In 1980, together with Bernd Ettel, he submitted a draft for the design of Friedrichstrasse in East Berlin , which won second place. A few years later, the official reception of the two architects changed due to their participation in several architecture competitions with productions that described the GDR as a surveillance state . For example, in 1984 Enzmann and Ettel submitted a draft for the redesign of East Berlin's Bersarinplatz , which provided a central stage for a staging of the Icarus flight . Volunteers should buckle their Icarus wings and dare the "flight into freedom" from a tower. Before reaching the destination, the aviators would meet the "state violence, symbolized by the laser cannons". while they would shoot them. Enzmann and Ettel were arrested after submitting the Bersarinplatz "draft" and sentenced to two and three years' imprisonment in 1985 for "publicly degrading" the GDR.
After his release from prison in 1986, Enzmann was unemployed. He was able to travel to the Federal Republic of Germany at the end of 1988. Since 1991 he has been running a planning office in Berlin-Kreuzberg with Bernd Ettel .
literature
- City of Architecture, Berlin 1900–2000, Nicolai-Verlag, ISBN 3-87584-017-8
- Arch + 103, April 1990, "Drafts hostile to the state", author Wolfgang Kil
- Traditions and Visions, Edition Arcum Cologne, ISBN 3-930912-06-6
- Short biography for: Enzmann, Christian . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
Web links
- ENZMANN / ETTEL Freie Architekten (Official website of the Enzmann planning office)
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Florian Urban: Neo-historical East Berlin: architecture and urban design in the German Democratic Republic 1970-1990 . Ashgate Publishing, Farnham 2009, ISBN 0754676161 , p. 179.
- ^ Ikarusflug, competition, Bersarinplatz, Berlin 1984 . on the ENZMANN / ETTEL website. (Retrieved June 15, 2010.)
- ^ Helmut Müller-Enbergs, Jan Wielgohs, Dieter Hoffmann: Who was who in the GDR? , 2nd Edition. Ch.links , Berlin 2000, ISBN 3861532018 , p. 190.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Enzmann, Christian |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German architect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 20, 1951 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leipzig |