Memorial to the founding fathers of the Friedrichstadt-Palast
The memorials for the founding fathers of the Frederick City Palace is a 2015 unveiled monument and is at Friedrichstrasse 107 in Berlin district of Mitte . The sculpture is reminiscent of the three founders of the Friedrichstadt-Palast : Max Reinhardt , Hans Poelzig and Erik Charell .
Origin and meaning of the symbol
The sculpture, entitled CAST , was officially unveiled on November 18, 2015 by the State Secretary for Cultural Affairs of the State of Berlin, Tim Renner , and the artistic director Berndt Schmidt .
The simply designed block made of cast concrete is the result of an artist competition won by the Berlin duo stoebo - Oliver Störmer & Cisca Bogman. As a conspicuous feature, the memorial block shows a symbolic incised headlight cone on two sides. The imaginary light projection is continued on the street in an oval area that has glitter effects. The memorial symbol thus symbolizes the imaginary beam of light from a theater spotlight and refers to the lack of honorees. Next to the cuboid there is an information board with information about the three founding fathers. Christoph Stölzl (President of the University of Music Franz Liszt Weimar ), the two artists Oliver Störmer and Cisca Bogman (stoebo) and Peter A. Poelzig, grandson of the honored expressionist architect, were present at the inauguration .
State Secretary for Culture Tim Renner says about the meaning of the memorial:
"It reminds us to think of the people who were expelled back then and had to find a new home, just as we are again today in the refugee situation."
For artistic director Berndt Schmidt , at whose instigation the memorial was created, the motives lie in the importance of the past on our actions today:
“Against the background of two dictatorships that have been overcome in our stage history, the palace under my directorship consciously stands for freedom, diversity and tolerance. In order to honor our founders, who set the style for the house and who later all three suffered from the National Socialists, the Friedrichstadt-Palast dedicates the prominent memorial on Friedrichstrasse to them. "
The founders of the Friedrichstadt-Palast
The stage history of the Friedrichstadt-Palast Berlin began on November 28, 1919 with the opening of the Great Theater . The three artists Max Reinhardt , Hans Poelzig and Erik Charell established the world fame of this Berlin entertainment stage .
Reinhardt was the most visionary theater maker and theater entrepreneur of his time. Poelzig was a formative architect, in Berlin a. a. also of the House of Broadcasting . Charell shaped the great revues of the “ Roaring Twenties ” in Berlin, discovered Marlene Dietrich and the Comedian Harmonists and created the world hit operetta in the White Horse Inn . From 1933 onwards, all three of them lost their ability to work in Germany due to the National Socialists . Reinhardt and Charell went into exile because of their Jewish origins , Charell was also at risk as a homosexual . Poelzig was exposed to increasing reprisals because of its expressionist ("degenerate") architecture.
On January 18, 1934, the house was continued as a National Socialist propaganda theater under the name " Theater of the People ". On November 1, 1947, it was given the current name Friedrichstadt-Palast.
In his opening speech, Christoph Stölzl made a cultural-political arc:
"The founding fathers stand for the invention of a mass culture that did not exist before - a new democratic entertainment."
Web links
- palast.berlin - Official website of the Friedrichstadt-Palast
- palast.berlin - Denkzeichen
- Berliner Morgenpost : A "memorial" at Friedrichstadt-Palast , November 20, 2015
- Berlin Week : The Friedrichstadt-Palast honors its founding fathers
- BZ : memorial at the Friedrichstadtpalast
Individual evidence
- ↑ bbk-kulturwerk.de: Friedrichstadt-Palast: Denkzeichen für Max Reinhardt, Hans Poelzig and Erik Charell , accessed on April 4, 2016
- ^ Berlin television: memorial at Friedrichstadt-Palast - inauguration , accessed on April 4, 2016
- ↑ a b A "memorial" at the Friedrichstadt-Palast . In: Berliner Morgenpost , November 20, 2015, accessed on April 4, 2016
- ↑ a b c d palast.berlin: memorials , accessed on April 4, 2016