Günter Hönow
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The discount bank and today's Deutsche Bank with its strongly plastic-horizontally structured facade on Otto-Suhr-Allee seen from Ernst-Reuter-Platz
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Night view of the Deutsche Bank: In addition to the external plasticity, light adds the depth of the spatiality of the building in its layering
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Günter Hönow (born October 21, 1923 in Stahnsdorf near Berlin ; † January 25, 2001 in Berlin-Zehlendorf ) was a German architect of post-war modernism .
Career
After military service in World War II and being a prisoner of war, the son of a farmer and trained carpenter studied at the Berlin Art College from 1949 to 1951 and 1953 to 1955, where he was both inspired by international modernism and shaped by such important architects as Max Taut , who had already re-accentuated the architectural image of major (west) German cities in the 1920s and then during the reconstruction.
activity
From 1960 he worked as a design lecturer at the Staatliche Werkkunstschule Berlin and won the “Junge Generation” (Berlin Art Prize) in 1961 and the Cologne Architecture Prize in 1967. From 1971 to 1986 he taught as a professor for design, building and interior planning at the University of the Arts (today Berlin University of the Arts ) and was a member of the German Werkbund (1976 inclusion in the Werkbund-Dok.). In 1978 he received the internationally renowned Habitation Space Prize.
His grave is in the old Wannsee cemetery .
Work (selection)
In addition to late modern single-family houses in Berlin-Lichterfelde and Berlin-Wannsee, such as his own house in Otto-Erich-Straße 20 and the Günther house in Glienicker Straße 19A from 1965, his projects include apartment blocks in Cologne's New City and Berlin's Gropiusstadt the 1968 built administration tower of the Diskontbank and later Deutsche Bank on Berlin's Ernst-Reuter-Platz , which was rebuilt in 1998. For the international building exhibition Interbau in 1957 he built the flat residential building at Handelallee 63 in Berlin's Hansaviertel , with which he won the competition for young talent. The former Prussian Supreme Court in Kreuzberger Lindenstrasse , which was rebuilt from 1963 to 1969 under his management as the Berlin Museum, was rebuilt by Daniel Libeskind from 1993 to 1999 and supplemented by a prominent extension to the Jewish Museum. In 1971 he built the new station building at Berlin-Charlottenburg train station .
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.stadtrand-nachrichten.de/konsequent-spaetmodern-hoenow-haus-in-wannsee-ist-denkmal-des-monats-mai/
Web links
- Günter Hönow. In: arch INFORM . (architectural background information on his most important works)
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| SURNAME | Hönow, Günter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German architect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 21, 1923 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stahnsdorf near Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 25, 2001 |
| Place of death | Berlin-Zehlendorf |