Mother Fourage

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Chausseestrasse 15 a, Berlin-Wannsee
Mother Fourage's house

The mother Fourage is a cultural site that was integrated into a formerly agricultural three-sided farm that was used as a horse feed trade . a. runs the Galerie Mutter Fourage and the Kulturscheune at Chausseestrasse 15a in Berlin-Wannsee . This cultural site is owned and operated by Wolfgang Immenhausen .

Mother Fourage

history

In 1900 Wilhelm Hönicke founded a flour and forage trade in Chausseestrasse 15 in Berlin-Wannsee on the Dreiseitenhof with a two-story residential building, one-story workshops and storage rooms , for which hay, straw and oats were chopped and loaded in the barn as horse fodder ( forage ) . The entire family was involved in the transport of the goods. In 1919 Otto Hönicke bought the Fouragehandel from his brother and since then has lived with his wife and their daughter on the property. During the Second World War , the court was an important distributor according to the delivery rules of the Reichsnährstand . Later potatoes and other animal feed were also traded there.

Mother Fourage's barn , which was rebuilt in 1924 after a fire in the old barn and has been a listed building since 2012, has a Zollinger roof , which was also the subject of an exhibition. For the 50th anniversary in 1950, the house was renovated. Otto Hönicke had expanded the business into a potato wholesaler and bequeathed it to his daughter, Wolfgang Immenhausen's mother, in 1957.

In 1977 the family business had to be closed due to the falling demand for Fourage. Following Mother Courage by Bertolt Brecht named Wolfgang Immenhausen the renovation court in the same year to participate in "Mother forage" and started on it together with the him from Grips Theater acclaimed author Stefan Reisner and the entrepreneur Lutz Peters a living and working community for the operation of an ecological feed and gardening store, the barn with the unusual roof construction became a culture barn in which they organized children's parties with clowns, Whitsun concerts and court parties for neighbors and friends from the city. As the mother of Fourage - Futtermittelhandels GmbH Wannsee , the original trade in feed was maintained in the name.

The pigeon tower erected in 1980 is now the landmark of the mother Fourage . The co-founders Reisner and Peters left in 1985, at the same time Immenhausen ended his involvement in the Grips Theater. From the mid-1980s onwards, Immenhausen and Sabine Schneider jointly expanded Mother Fourage's cultural program in the Kulturscheune , which was established as a venue for concerts (e.g. by the twelve cellists of the Berlin Philharmonic ), theater performances and readings, and hosted the former Car shed the gallery Mother Fourage .

Under the motto "Art and Ecology", heather sheep , horses , pigs and pigeons were kept on the farm until 2007 , but this had to be abandoned due to requirements of the veterinary office and one of the first natural food stores in Berlin opened in 1989 (today leased as a delicatessen ). In addition, premises are currently leased to the Hofcafé , a gardening shop and a picture frame studio.

construction

  • Gallery Mother Fourage
  • Culture barn
  • cobblestone courtyard
  • Residential building
leased premises
  • Hofcafé (opened in 1995)
  • Fine food at Mutter Fourage ( delicatessen store, emerged from the natural food store founded in 1989)
  • Gardening (growing plants without pesticides and herbicides )
  • Picture frame studio

Gallery Mother Fourage

The basis of the Galerie Mutter Fourage is the collection of Wolfgang Immenhausen, who, decades ago, bought works by the then forgotten Wannsee painter and co-founder of the Berlin Secession, Philipp Franck , for little money , which are now worth many times over. In addition to exhibitions from the gallery stock , works by contemporary artists have been and are being exhibited in the Galerie Mutter Fourage .

Works in the gallery's inventory (selection)

Works by artists of the Berlin Secession as well as representatives of the so-called lost generation , ie painters who experienced the First World War, successfully found their artistic path in the Weimar Republic, but were stigmatized and banned as "degenerate" during the Nazi era, are in the gallery's inventory and are continuously shown in exhibitions:

Contemporary artist
  • Ingeborg Hunzinger (1915–2009, granddaughter of Philipp Franck)
    • The Sphinx , sculpture, 1991
    • Couple , bronze, 1993

Exhibitions (selection)

Traveling exhibitions

Literature (selection)

Web link

credentials

  1. ↑ a b c d e f How it all began , online at mutter-fourage.de
  2. ↑ a b c d e Sebastian Senftleben: Portrait: Spiritual father and co-founder of "Mother Fourage" - Berlin Südwest eV Accessed on December 12, 2017 (German).
  3. ↑ The Zollinger roof - less is the future. Accessed December 12, 2017 (German).
  4. ↑ a b c Tanja Laninger: Wannsee's first professional eco . ( Morgenpost.de [accessed December 12, 2017]).
  5. ↑ See the home page of Mother Fourage's homepage
  6. ↑ Hofcafé , online at hofcafe-berlin.de
  7. ↑ Feine Kost , online at feinkost-berlin.de
  8. ↑ Die Gärtner , online at hofcafe-berlin.de
  9. ↑ Friederike zu Rantzau picture frame , online at bilderrahmen-rantzau.de
  10. ↑ Berlin Secession , online at mutter-fourage.de
  11. ↑ Ingeborg Becker, Manfred Grosskinsky: Philipp Franck . Imhof, 2010, ISBN 978-3-86568-550-6 ( google.de [accessed December 12, 2017]).
  12. ^ Gallery and art trade , online at mutter-fourage.de
  13. ↑ About. Retrieved December 16, 2017 (American English).
  14. ^ Thomas Veszelits: The Robin Hood Trap: "Mister Karstadt", Nicolas Berggruen, A Biography . Rotbuch Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3-86789-545-3 ( google.de [accessed on December 16, 2017]).
  15. ^ Dirik von Oettingen: Opium with mother Fourage: Catalog for the exhibition . BoD - Books on Demand, 2016, ISBN 978-3-7392-6797-5 ( google.de [accessed December 12, 2017]).
  16. ↑ Ingeborg Ruthe: Helen in luck . In: Berliner Zeitung , October 13, 2009
  17. ^ Heinrich von Kleist Society, Heinrich von Kleist Society and the Kleist Museum: Kleist Yearbook 2012 . Springer-Verlag, 2016, ISBN 978-3-476-00814-5 ( google.de [accessed December 12, 2017]).
  18. ^ A rapprochement in Wannsee: Association of Berlin Artists and the Berlin Secession: an exhibition in the Galerie Mutter Fourage Berlin in cooperation with the Association of Berlin Artists on the occasion of its 175th anniversary: ​​November 2016 . Association of Berlin Artists, 2016, ISBN 978-3-9818399-0-6 ( google.de [accessed December 12, 2017]).
  19. ↑ There's a lot of grumbling at this exhibition! ( bz-berlin.de [accessed December 12, 2017]).
  20. ↑ Steiner-Rinnerberg: "From Taunus to Wannsee". Retrieved December 12, 2017 .

Coordinates: 52 ° 24 '59 "  N , 13 ° 8' 46.7"  E