Women's coat factory RM Maaßen

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The former Maaßen department store on the corner of Oranienplatz and Oranienstrasse (right)

The former RM Maassen or Maassen women's coat factory , the Oranienplatz 2 building in Berlin-Kreuzberg , is a former department store. It was built in 1904 and is a listed building. From 2011 to 2019, the ground floor was the Denkerei , a cultural institution with the subtitle Office for working on unsolvable problems and measures of the high hand .

history

The textile department store at Oranienplatz 2 / Oranienstraße 164 was built between 1903 and 1904 by the architects Alfred Breslauer and Paul Salinger . The client was the Berlin businessman Christfried Reinhard-Moritz Maaßen (1859–1907). The R. M. Maaßen department store was for a time Germany's largest specialist store for women's clothing. It remained in the possession of the family company Maaßen until it was sold to the consumer cooperative in Berlin and the surrounding area in 1927. In 1938 a renovation took place. The house was almost completely destroyed in the Second World War . In the 1950s it was completely rebuilt and lost its original shape. The architects Thomas Müller and Ivan Reimann rebuilt the house between 2002 and 2004, orienting themselves towards the original appearance.

Thinking

From December 2011 to April 2019 the “Thinking, Office for Work on Insoluble Problems and Measures of the High Hand” was located on the first floor of the house at Oranienplatz 2. This cultural facility opened on December 3, 2011. Bazon Brock , Peter Sloterdijk , Peter Weibel , Karl Schlögel and other scientists were responsible for thinking . From November 2011 the “Office for Work on Insoluble Problems” cooperated with the Leuphana University of Lüneburg . In thinking, the social discussion of complex problems (such as the euro crisis or the nuclear waste disposal facility) should be taken up and a dialogue should be conducted with politics, business and civil society. For this purpose, those responsible made use of different art and communication formats. In April 2019, the think tank had to leave the premises because the lease expired. With the lecture Thinking is Applied Heroism , Bazon Brock said goodbye to Berlin's Oranienplatz; with the hint that in the next few years the Denkerei will be visiting other cities.

Quote

“If people will have anything in common in the future, it will not be illusions of cultural identity - such as common language, religions, table manners; but the confrontation of everyone with unsolvable problems. "

- Bazon Brock.

Areas of work and specialist boards

Criticism of evidence / rubbish cults (Bazon Brock), psychopolitics (Peter Sloterdijk), technotheology ( Peter Weibel ), western epistemology ( Arno Bammé ), stoic dietetics ( Ulrich Heinen ), consumer research ( Wolfgang Ullrich ), molecular biology ( Roland Brock ) and transformation rules of law ( Fabian Steinhauer ).

layout

The interior of the Denkerei was designed by communication designers Florian Adler and Hans-Peter Schmidt from Adler & Schmidt Berlin.

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Schächen (Ed.): A house on Oranienplatz in Berlin. On the history and architecture of the former Maassen department store. With photographs by Ivan Nemec. Jovis, Berlin 2004; Book Description.
  3. ↑ For a new way of dealing with complex problems. Cultural scientist founded the “Denkerei” in Berlin. Bazon Brock in conversation with Stephan Karkowsky. Deutschlandradio Kultur, December 7, 2011, accessed December 9, 2011
  4. ↑ Gentrification: Bazon Brock has to clear his thinking in Kreuzberg Tagesspiegel, Hannes Soltau, April 11, 2019, accessed on April 11, 2019
  5. ^ Willi Winkler: Addio and Goldmund. Retrieved May 27, 2020 .
  6. ↑ bazonbrock.de