Dieter Rühle

Dieter Rühle (* 1940 in Berlin ) is a German architect and designer. His best-known work is the large Fennpfuhl housing estate in Berlin's Lichtenberg district .

Life

Dieter Rühle's father was already an architect working in Stuttgart and Berlin . So it was inevitable that the son also sought appropriate training. He studied at the Art Academy Berlin-Weissensee architecture and acquired the title of graduate engineer in 1966. Then participated Rühle to 1976 to design and detailed planning for the East Berlin city center by Rathauspassagen . After the work was completed, the city council awarded the employees of the participating collectives the Medal Builder of the City Center . Then there were urban planning tasks in the area of housing and social construction. Within this complex task, Dieter Rühle was appointed project manager for the Lichtenberg Nordost residential area in 1971 under the leadership of Heinz Graffunder , the chief architect in East Berlin. The new residential area, later officially renamed Berlin-Fennpfuhl , was to create living space for almost 50,000 people through a dense development. A first design by Bauhaus architect Ernst May from 1956 was not implemented for various reasons. From 1971 new planning began for the “first coherent large housing estate in the GDR”. After the first buildings were finished in 1972, the planning continued and the then East Berlin Mayor Erhard Krack appointed Dieter Rühle as a complex architect . In addition to the construction plans for the residential buildings, his team also came up with ideas for creating a pedestrian-friendly residential area with reduced traffic. In addition to the center around Anton-Saefkow-Platz with a swimming pool, sports hall, library, department store, sports field, a public park ( Fennpfuhlpark ) and two pedestrian crossings over Weißenseer Weg and the then Leninallee, there were also some attractions such as a kind of Nessie in Fennpfuhl. For the latter, a set designer from the Komische Oper had drawn a draft in the 1980s that was approved by the building commission. Rühle had the order to procure the required material, a water-repellent polyester resin . However, the idea was no longer used because, as a result of the reunification, all previous plans became obsolete or simply forgotten. In 1986 the mayor appointed Dieter Rühle to the advisory board for urban design . The works created here received the Berlin Architecture Prize in 1987 .

The Berlin Chamber of Architects elected Rühle to the representative assembly in 1992. Finally, he was appointed to the building council in 2009 and is a building owner adviser for the Bauherren-Schutzbund e. V. active.

Works (selection)

In Fennpfuhlpark , a pergola with a round bench has adorned the spacious park in its eastern area since 1987 . A semicircular bench made of artificial stone is framed by a wrought-iron semicircular construction, Dieter Rühle provided the designs. Roses entwine themselves on the artistically designed metal frame. In order to be prepared against the wild graffiti smearings that were constantly carried out after 1990 , after a thorough cleaning at the beginning of the 21st century, the bank was provided with large-scale light blue / green / yellow and light red decorated patterns.

A completely different task was the design for the memorial to commemorate the book burning under Bebelplatz, submitted to the magistrate in 1988 together with the artist Siegfried Krepp . However, the idea of the Israeli artist Micha Ullman was realized after the fall of the Wall .

Around 1991 Dieter Rühle, who lives in Berlin-Pankow , opened his own architecture office at Berliner Straße 13.

In the subsequent first overall Berlin architectural competition (June to December 1992), the design by Dieter Rühles office for the specified area of Friedrichstadt received the second prize. The office later planned and built residential buildings in Altglienicke and carried out renovations of old buildings and monuments in Berlin, Frankfurt (Oder) and Bad Doberan . A sports high school and single and multi-family houses in Berlin were also renovated by Rühle's office.

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Homepage of Dieter Rühle
↑ No petty bourgeois cottage idyll (online text) or the waiting list is long (print text). In: Berliner Woche , Lichtenberg edition, December 2, 2015, p. 4.
↑ Note on the pergola: according to a brass plate attached to the narrow side; seen in February 2016.
↑ Reference to the Dieter Rühle architectural office on branchenbuch.meinestadt.de ; accessed on December 2, 2015.
^ District Mitte as an area of exceptional urban political importance. The House of Representatives wants to decide. The decision of the Senate of February 13, 2001 on the determination of the area between Friedrichstrasse, Mittelstrasse, Unter den Linden and the eastern boundary of parcel 98 to the neighboring properties Unter den Linden 12 / Mittelstrasse 64 in the Mitte district as an area of exceptional urban political importance ; accessed on December 1, 2015.

personal data
SURNAME	Rühle, Dieter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German architect
DATE OF BIRTH	1940
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berlin

[bsb-1] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Homepage of Dieter Rühle

[Berl_Woche-2] No petty bourgeois cottage idyll (online text) or the waiting list is long (print text). In: Berliner Woche , Lichtenberg edition, December 2, 2015, p. 4.

[3] Note on the pergola: according to a brass plate attached to the narrow side; seen in February 2016.

[4] Reference to the Dieter Rühle architectural office on branchenbuch.meinestadt.de ; accessed on December 2, 2015.

[5] District Mitte as an area of exceptional urban political importance. The House of Representatives wants to decide. The decision of the Senate of February 13, 2001 on the determination of the area between Friedrichstrasse, Mittelstrasse, Unter den Linden and the eastern boundary of parcel 98 to the neighboring properties Unter den Linden 12 / Mittelstrasse 64 in the Mitte district as an area of exceptional urban political importance ; accessed on December 1, 2015.