Dorothea Tscheschner

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Joachim Näther , Peter Schweizer , Dorothea Tscheschner, Dieter Schulze and Wernerstrasse Meier
double high-rise type SK 65 , is part of the complex Leipziger Strasse

Dorothea Tscheschner (born December 27, 1928 in Brieg , Brieg district , Lower Silesia province ) is a German author , architect and urban planner who is closely associated with the redesign of East Berlin's city ​​center.

Life and education

She was born as the daughter of the architect Walter Tscheschner (1883–1974), who was the city planner in Brzeg until 1933. Her brother was Walter Joachim Veit Tscheschner (1927-2004, professor of information technology and communication in Dresden ). From 1935 to 1938 she attended elementary school there and then from 1938 to 1944 the Brieg high school .

In 1944 and 1945 it was used to build an anti-tank ditch for the Wehrmacht . After that, she got into Polish and Soviet forced labor camps from 1946 to 1947 and fled with her parents to Chemnitz . afterwards she lived in the Hoyerswerda and Chemnitz refugee camps until 1948 .

From 1948 to 1949 she trained as a cabinet maker and cabinet maker, which enabled her to study at the Chemnitz Technical Academy from 1949 to 1952 (today Chemnitz University of Technology ) and at the newly founded Görlitz Building School , where she became the first woman to study Architect was an engineer.

The degree enabled him to be accepted at the Weimar University of Architecture and Construction (HAB, today Bauhaus University Weimar ). She completed her studies from 1952 to 1956 as a Dipl.-Ing. for architecture .

Create

After completing his studies, Tscheschner made his first experiences in urban planning in 1956 as an architect in the design office for building construction in the city of Gera with planning for the destroyed center. From 1957 to 1959 she was a research assistant at Georg Funk at the chair for urban planning at the TU Dresden . Here she won first prize in the competition for the reconstruction of Magdeburg-Nord in 1958 (in the Georg Funk collective).

At various competitions she got to know the deputy chief architect of Berlin Erhardt Gißke , who brought her to East Berlin in 1958. From 1959 to 1974 she worked for the urban development collective in the urban development and architecture department of the Berlin City Administration, under the direction of Erhardt Gißke. Here, under the direction of Joachim Näther, together with Peter Schweizer, she was involved in drafts for the redesign of the East Berlin city center in the urban development framework plan of the city building authority in several projects:

In addition to her work in the city building department, she also took part in various competitions:

  • 1958 Competition Magdeburg-Nord, in the Georg Funk collective, 1st prize
  • 1962 Competition Thälmann-Platz Halle (Saale) , with Peter Schweizer
  • 1963 Competition City Center Sofia , in the collective Peter Schweizer
  • 1964 challenge competition Alexanderplatz, 1st prize
  • 1967 Challenge competition on Leninplatz , (directed by Hermann Henselmann ), 1st prize

In 1971 she received her doctorate in engineering from the HAB Weimar with the work Development tendencies of the center structure within the emergence of a socialist city shape: illustrated using the example of Berlin, the capital of the German Democratic Republic .

From 1974 to 1990 she was an employee at the Berlin district building authority with a focus on the development of type buildings for residential areas. After her retirement in 1990, she worked as a building appraiser for the fire society Berlin and prepared appraisals for building appraisals for the Berlin Cathedral , the Brandenburg Gate and the Charité clinics . She also worked as a freelance architectural historian and publicist on the subject of architecture.

From 1961 to 1990 she was a corresponding member of the GDR Building Academy .

Awards

Publications

  • The congress hall in Bad Orb / Spessart. In: Dt. Architecture (1956)
  • Dorothe Tscheschner: Capital Berlin; International urban development competition 1957/58; Berlin 1989
  • The reconstruction of the historical center in East Berlin. In: Berlinische Galerie . (Ed.) Capital Berlin, International Urban Development Competition 1957/58 ; Berlin 1990, pp. 217-248
  • Helmut Engel / Wolfgang Ribbe (eds.): Capital Berlin - where to go with the center? Historical, urban planning and architectural roots of the city center. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1993, ISBN 978-3-05-002403-5 , The ideas competition for the socialist transformation of the center of the GDR. (Publications of the Historical Commission in Berlin ).
  • Dorothea Tscheschner: The demolished Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the GDR in Berlin-Mitte . Planning and construction history. Ed .: DSK Deutsche Stadt- und Grundstücksentwicklungsgesellschaft mbH as development agency and trustee of the State of Berlin, Berlin office. On behalf of the Senate Department for Building, Housing and Transport, Capital Department. Kulturbuch, Berlin 2000, ISBN 978-3-88961-027-0 .
  • Thorsten Scheer, Josef P. Kleihues , Paul Kahlfeldt : Berlin - City of Architecture . City architecture. Berlin 1900 - 2000. Nicolai, Berlin 2000, ISBN 978-3-87584-017-9 , The sixteen foundations of urban planning .
  • The town house - repairs, alterations, etc. Conversion 1945 - 90. In: Schächen, W .: Das Stadthaus. Berlin 2001.
  • Dorothea Tscheschner: A Silesian pearl. Brieg buildings tell. D. Tscheschner, Berlin 2004, ISBN 978-3-928905-40-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ German Photo Library. In: deutschefotothek.de. Retrieved January 13, 2020 .
  2. ^ Catalogus professorum dresdensis. In: ua.tu-dresden.de. Retrieved January 13, 2020 .
  3. ^ Dorothea Tscheschner architect, urban planner, writer, speaker? In: verlag-vwm.de. Retrieved January 13, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Arnold Bartetzky, Marina Dmitrieva, Alfrun Kliems, Christian Dietz, Thomas Fichtner (eds.): Imaginations des Urbanen . Conception, reflection and fiction of the city in Central and Eastern Europe. Lukas Verlag, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-86732-022-1 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  5. ↑ Frank Simon-Ritz (Ed.): 50 years of dissertations at the University of Architecture and Building and the Bauhaus University Weimar . Bauhaus-Universität Weimar / Verlag der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, 2005, ISBN 3-86068-275-X , p. 56 ( uni-weimar.de [PDF; 698 kB ; accessed on January 21, 2020]).
personal data
SURNAME Tscheschner, Dorothea
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect (GDR)
DATE OF BIRTH December 27, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Brzeg , District of Brzeg , Province of Lower Silesia