Funkhaus Grünau
| Funkhaus Grünau | |
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 Funkhaus Grünau in February 2010 |
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| Data | |
| place | Berlin |
| architect | Otto Zbrzezny |
| Client | Michelhausgesellschaft, Danatbank |
| Architectural style | Brick expressionism |
| Construction year | 1929-1930 |
| Coordinates | 52 ° 24 '38 " N , 13 ° 35' 57.6" E |
The Funkhaus Grünau is a listed building complex in the Berlin district of Grünau in the Treptow-Köpenick district . From 1947 to 1956 the property was used as a broadcasting house by the state radio of the Soviet occupation zone and later GDR .
architecture
The building in the style of brick expressionism was built in the years 1929/1930 as a sports store of the Danatbank in what was then Neue Regattastrasse 13-15 . The architect of the four- story , seven-axis brick building with a flat roof was Otto Zbrzezny . The builders were Michelhausgesellschaft and Danatbank. After renaming and renumbering the street, the property has the address Regattastraße 277 .
The villa, equipped with a structured clinker facade , is clad with wood on the top floor and is surrounded by a gallery. The boat shed was originally located on the ground floor, the first floor housed a hall and a gymnasium was housed on the third floor.
history
The building changed hands for the first time in 1934. The owner became the Dresdner Bank , which used the property as a sports and recreation home.
During the Second World War , the building was confiscated by the Wehrmacht in 1940 and used as a reserve hospital . Towards the end of the war it was damaged by the effects of the war.
1946 to 1956
On the orders of the Soviet Military Administration (SMAD), the boathouses of Dresdner Bank (Regattastraße 277) and Allianz (neighboring property, Regattastraße 267) were confiscated by the Central Administration for Post and Telecommunications in the Soviet Zone of Occupation . A wire radio transmission system was to be set up here . In September 1946 the SMAD founded an editorial of the Berlin Rundfunk the SMAD to the Berliner Rundfunk , who was from the House of Broadcasting in the Masurenallee sent, supplied with contributions from Grunau out to. The conversion of the two boathouses for use as a radio studio in East Berlin was completed on May 1, 1947. In addition to contributions for the Berlin radio, contributions for the broadcasters Leipzig , Dresden , Schwerin , Magdeburg and Weimar were also produced here, which themselves did not yet have sufficient opportunities to do so. Radio plays such as B. Beacon by Robert Ardrey , were produced here, although the soundproofing of the rooms from the surroundings was insufficient and the recordings had to be interrupted when the trams passed.
The Soviet-controlled Berlin radio broadcasting from Masurenallee in West Berlin was soon severely hampered by the Western Allies and later blocked. In this aggravated situation, the Rundfunkstudio Grünau was handed over by the SMAD to the German Administration for National Education on May 17, 1948 . The General Director of the Democratic Broadcasting , which was formally subordinate to her, took over the area and named it from then on Funkhaus Grünau .
The Funkhaus Grünau now assumed an important function as an alternate broadcasting house in order to be able to counter the increasing disruption of operations in Masurenallee. Until the completion of the broadcasting studios in the new Nalepastraße broadcasting center in 1952 and the associated complete move from Masurenallee to East Berlin, the Grünau broadcasting center was used as a temporary broadcasting center for special political and cultural events. After 1952 only a few editorial offices remained in Grünau. They moved to Nalepastraße after the music and radio play complex was completed in 1956.
German freedom broadcaster 904
The Funkhaus Grünau played a special role in connection with the German freedom broadcaster 904. The conspiratorial broadcaster, which was formed at the instigation of the SED leadership at the same time as the KPD was banned in August 1956, began its activity initially in a screened area of the Funkhaus Nalepastraße. In order to be able to guarantee the secrecy of the station, however, a location had to be found far away from the headquarters of the GDR radio. That is why the DFS 904 first moved to the Funkhaus Grünau in September 1956, stayed here until 1959 and then moved into a building in Friedrichshagen. From there, the station finally moved to its domicile in Bestensee near Königs Wusterhausen, which existed until 1971 .
German soldier transmitter 935
At the end of the 1950s, the rowing section of the ASK Army Sports Club moved into the neighboring property, Regattastraße 267, which was previously used as an administration building and canteen . This was an excellent camouflage for another " secret transmitter ", the German soldier transmitter 935, which started operations here on October 1, 1960 by decision of the Central Committee of the SED . The transmitter served the ideological influence of the Bundeswehr soldiers and broadcast alternately with the DFS 904 on medium wave via the transmitter Burg near Magdeburg . Administratively, the station was an independent department of the Political Headquarters of the Ministry of National Defense (PHV). The station's story ended on June 30, 1972.
Educational institution
Until the beginning of the 1990s, the Funkhaus Grünau also made a name for itself as an educational institution. In 1950 a radio school for prospective journalists was founded, which existed until 1963. In September 1959, the central training center for studio technology broadcasting was established here , a division of Deutsche Post . Every year more than 20 apprentices were trained to become technical employees, so-called studio assistants or later skilled workers for communications technology , for broadcasting and production operations for radio. Adult qualifications and further training rounded off the profile of this broadcasting school. One of the teachers was the former cyclist Detlef Zabel , father of Erik Zabel . Special courses in dramaturgical instruction for practice in the radio play and word recording studio were given for many years by the audio play dramaturge Wolfgang Beck . The training center existed until the end of 1991.
Entertainment desk and television ballet
Mid-1960s drew the entertainment editors of German Television to Hans-Georg Ponesky and Heinz Quermann into the upper floors of the radio building Grunau. The former broadcasting hall on the upper floor served the German TV Ballet as a rehearsal room. This use also came to an end with the dissolution of the German television network in 1991.
Change of ownership
Funkhaus Grünau hit the headlines again for the first time in 2008. After the last owner, the Neuköllner Bildungswerk , filed for bankruptcy in September 2007 , the building steeped in history on the attractive waterfront property fell into disrepair. Now, in March 2008, the entire area should come under the hammer.
On March 28, 2008, the Funkhaus Grünau, including the approximately 7500 m² property on the Dahme, was acquired by a Hamburg asset management company at an auction by Deutsche Grundstücksauktionen AG in the Schöneberg town hall for 655,000 euros .
Since spring 2012, the area has been used by young people to give artists and creative groups space for ideas and projects to be realized, whereby the projects and actions were mainly in the context of recycling and upcycling, i.e. the recycling and upgrading of discarded items. The joint project was ended in 2014.
Since then, the building has been empty again, as it is obviously not possible to convert it into lucrative residential or office space: "The broadcasting house is located on that section of Regattastrasse on which the Treptow-Köpenick district mandates water sports use."
See also
literature
- Wolfhard Besser: From the boathouse to the broadcasting house . In: Kunstfabrik Köpenick GmbH (ed.): Treptow-Köpenick, A year and reading book . tape 2007 . Self-published, Berlin-Köpenick July 31, 2006, p. 133-137 .
- Otto Riedrich: The Danatbank sports store in Grünau . In: Deutsche Bauzeitung . tape 64 , no. 52 . Deutsche Bauzeitung, Berlin 1930, p. 401-408 .
- Architects and Engineers Association of Berlin (ed.): Berlin and its buildings , part 7, volume C, Verlag Ernst & Sohn, Berlin 1997, p. 210, ISBN 3-433-02204-6 .
Web links
- Entry in the Berlin State Monument List with further information
- Extract from the broadcasting house. German Broadcasting Archive , accessed on March 1, 2010 .
- 2. Berlin Radio Festival, the background. (Word document; 58 kB) OhrRing e. V., accessed on March 1, 2010 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ boathouse Danathbank. Senate Department for Urban Development, Berlin, March 25, 2008, accessed on September 14, 2017 .
- ^ A b Jürgen Wilke: Radio on a secret mission . In: Christoph Classen (Ed.): Between Pop and Propaganda: Radio in the GDR . 1st edition. Christoph Links Verlag, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-86153-343-X , p. 250-253 ( Funkhaus Grünau, Regattastraße 277 [accessed on March 2, 2010]).
- ↑ Christian Senne: Der Deutsche Freiheitssender 904. (PDF; 679 kB) May 2003, accessed on February 26, 2010 .
- ^ Karin Schmidl: History under the hammer . In: Berliner Zeitung , March 27, 2008
- ↑ Karin Schmidl: Wall parts bought at auction . In: Berliner Zeitung , March 29, 2008
- ^ Website of the Funkhaus Grünau ( memento of February 24, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), May 17, 2013
- ↑ Soon there will be silence in Grünau. In: Der Tagesspiegel , October 27, 2013.