Georg Heinrichs

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Georg Heinrichs (born June 10, 1926 in Berlin ; † December 20, 2020 there ) was a German architect and urban planner . His most important works, including important works that shape the cityscape, were created in West Berlin in the 1960s and 1970s . Heinrichs worked in an architectural partnership with Hans Christian Müller until 1967 .

Life

Georg Heinrich's childhood was strongly influenced by the experiences of National Socialism . In 1944 he was deported to a labor camp in Petershütte in the Harz Mountains because of his mother's Jewish descent . His grandparents were murdered in Estonia during the German occupation after 1941, and his brother Sergej died shortly before the end of the war in a labor camp near Dessau.

After the end of the war Heinrichs began studying at the architecture school founded by Max Taut at the Berlin University of the Arts (today: UdK), which he graduated in 1954. He gained his first professional experience with the Bauhaus architect Wils Ebert , where he worked on the expansion of the Dahlem museums , and in an architecture office in London . He also worked for Alvar Aalto , who planned a building for Berlin's Hansaviertel in 1957 as part of the International Building Exhibition .

“After all, the house is here on Clayallee , so you can hear at least a little car noise. So I know that I'm still alive. ”Georg Heinrichs in the SZ interview 2011 about his home in the villa designed by Bruno Paul in 1925/26 (Auerbach house).

Heinrichs died in Berlin in December 2020 at the age of 94.

plant

As a representative of modernism, Georg Heinrichs combined the horizontally dynamic architecture of Erich Mendelsohn with the rationality of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in his buildings . The dominant aesthetic element of his designs is the horizontal, which he himself describes as "restrained and modest", the vertical form, on the other hand, he perceived as aggressive and consistently rejected it, as well as the square as a geometrical order grid and basic motif, which he described as "without proportion". in contrast z. B. to Oswald Mathias Ungers or Richard Meier .

His designs are not only characterized by their often sculptural character but also by their partly flexible and intelligent floor plan solutions. At the same time, the buildings were often the target of strong criticism at the time they were being built. His best-known projects include the urban planning concept and the overall planning for the Märkisches Viertel in Berlin's Reinickendorf district (1962, with Werner Düttmann and Hans Christian Müller ).

buildings

  • Karsch House (1959)

  • House Dr. Schätzing (1961)

  • Chapel at the St. Johannis and Heiland cemetery, north bank 31 (1961–64)

  • Opera District (1970)

  • Forum Steglitz (1970)

  • Former consistory of the EKBO (1971); Demolished in 2011

  • Apartment house Uhlandstrasse 195/196 (1976)

  • Hotel Excelsior (1978-1979)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ BDA - Bund Deutscher Architekten: Stadtgestalten - Georg Heinrichs. In: video interview. Bauwelt, October 13, 2015, accessed on May 11, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Nikolaus Bernau : On the death of Georg Heinrichs , rbb-online.de, broadcast on January 8, 2021, accessed on January 9, 2021.
  3. ↑ Berlin star architect Georg Heinrichs turns 90 , Nikolaus Bernau in Berliner Zeitung on June 10, 2016
  4. ↑ Gabriella Herpell: "I can only really take it with myself." April 7, 2011, accessed November 28, 2019 .
  5. ^ Georg Heinrichs - Architect. In: The Selby. Accessed November 28, 2019 .
  6. ^ List, map, database / Landesdenkmalamt Berlin. Retrieved November 28, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Michaele Brunk, Dr. Jörg Rüter (editor): Monument of the month - Klopstockstraße 37 . Ed .: BerlinOnline. May 2013 ( berlin.de [PDF]).
  8. ↑ The ride through the house. Life and work of the Berlin architect Georg Heinrichs. Documentary by Knut Klaßen and Carsten Krohn (Germany, 2008)
  9. ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
  10. ↑ a b c d Bofinger, Klotz, Paul: Architektur in Deutschland Kohlhammer, 1981
  11. ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
  12. ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
  13. ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
  14. ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
  15. ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
  16. ^ Community Center (1963) in Berlin, Germany, by Georg Heinrichs & Hans Christian Müller
  17. ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
  18. ↑ Entry at germanpostwarmodern
  19. ↑ [1]
personal data
SURNAME Heinrichs, Georg
SHORT DESCRIPTION German architect and urban planner
DATE OF BIRTH June 10, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH December 20, 2020
Place of death Berlin