Funkhaus Munich

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Funkhaus Munich
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Data
place Munich-Maxvorstadt
architect Richard Riemerschmid
Client German hour in Bavaria
Architectural style New Objectivity
Construction year 1928-1929
Coordinates 48 ° 8 '38.5 "  N , 11 ° 33' 16.8"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 8 '38.5 "  N , 11 ° 33' 16.8"  E
particularities
First radio building in Germany

The Funkhaus München (also: Riemerschmid-Bau ) is the first building in Germany to be built exclusively for radio. It was built in 1928–1929 by the architect Richard Riemerschmid . Today the building, which was redesigned after being partially destroyed in World War II , is still used by the Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation for broadcasting purposes. The current address is Rundfunkplatz 1.

history

In 1927 Richard Riemerschmid won a limited architecture competition for a broadcasting house in Munich.

There, the German hour in Bavaria worked provisionally from 1924 in the premises of the Ministry of Transport not far from the radio house of Riemerschmid, which was later built. In 1929 the transmitter moved to the Riemerschmid building, which is still used by Bayerischer Rundfunk today. However, the building has been heavily changed due to war damage and the associated post-war renovations. The original broadcasting rooms and recording rooms have not been preserved.

Before the destruction, the broadcasting house in Munich was a three-story building on the corner of Marsstrasse and Hopfenstrasse. The front part was intended for administration and rehearsal rooms. Connected to this was the transmitter building, which was built away from the street behind the administration wing in the courtyard. The three main broadcasting rooms were located here. The southern of the two courtyards was also used for outdoor shots, as it was better insulated from street noise. The three halls were structured as follows: a large one for music recordings and “speaking scenes” with a large number of people, a middle one for chamber music and a smaller one for “speaking lectures”. The ceiling in the largest room could be adjusted to be sound-insulating or sound-absorbing , as required. Curtains could also cause a slight change in sound absorption by opening or closing them. Even the largest broadcasting hall was not approved for the public, so there was no sound absorption through the fabrics of the audience's clothing. Sensitive recording equipment, as well as the fact that not only music but also speech should be recorded in this room, meant that the reverberation was limited more clearly than was normally the case in a room of this size for music. The acoustic calculations in Munich were carried out by the engineer H. Reiher. Among other things, he carried out tests on cross-sectional models.

The building was rebuilt and restored for the first time in 1945/46. From May 31, 1945, the building could be provisionally used again for radio operations. It is now a listed building (D-1-62-000-6027). 1977–1979 the building was rebuilt and increased.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Antonia Gruhn: Architecture . In: Winfried Nerdinger (Ed.): Richard Riemerschmid. From Art Nouveau to the Werkbund: Works and Documents . Munich 1982, p. 446 .
  2. ↑ Heinrich Habel u. a .: State capital Munich, center 3. The districts of Altstadt and Lehel, Maxvorstadt and the English Garden (= monument topography Federal Republic of Germany, independent cities) . Munich 2009, p. 958 .
  3. ↑ a b c d H. Reiher: New building of the Munich broadcasting house "German Hour in Bavaria". Acoustic measures for the new building of the "German Hour in Bavaria" . In: Bauwelt . tape 43 , supplement, 1929, p. 1 .
  4. ^ H. Reiher: New building of the Munich broadcasting house "German hour in Bavaria". Acoustic measures for the new building of the "German Hour in Bavaria" . In: Bauwelt . tape 43 , supplement, 1929, p. 3 .
  5. ↑ Bettina Hasselbring: "This is Radio Munich ..." It started broadcasting 75 years ago. In: br.de. Retrieved July 22, 2020 .
  6. ^ Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments: Upper Bavaria administrative region. State capital Munich. Architectural monuments. 2020, p. 705 , accessed on July 21, 2020 .