Podewils Palace

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Podewils Palace
Heinrich Graf von Podewils (1696–1760), Foreign Minister of Frederick the Great
Memorial plaque on the house, Klosterstrasse 68, in Berlin-Mitte

The Palais Podewils is a baroque aristocratic palace in the Berlin monastery district, which served or serves as a museum and cultural site.

location

The house is on Klosterstrasse next to the historic Parochial Church .

history

The baroque palace was built between 1701 and 1704 according to plans by Jean de Bodt . It is three-story, with the middle window axis, which is flanked by two pilasters , also has a balcony. In 1732 the building came into the possession of Heinrich Graf von Podewils , Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in the cabinet of the " Soldier King " and Minister under Frederick the Great . He had the furniture upgraded by adding wall paintings and stucco ceilings .

In 1874 the Berlin magistrate bought the palace and one year later set up the Märkisches Provinzialmuseum on the first floor, the floors above served as the magistrate's offices. The building was renovated between 1881 and 1896, and an extension was added. From 1920, some departments of the newly formed district administration of Berlin-Mitte used the house; from 1937 it served the district mayor of Mitte as the official residence.

Destruction and rebuilding

In the last months of the war the building was destroyed to the ground. It was rebuilt in the years 1952–1954, the facade being largely restored to the original baroque version, but the roof was designed as a simple saddle roof . However, the materials used in the reconstruction are not contemporary, so reinforced concrete was used for the building ceilings and the interiors were rearranged for use during the GDR era.

In February 1966, after an event, a fire broke out that destroyed the ballrooms and the roof structure again. During the renewed reconstruction, the historic double hipped roof of the pre-war version was restored.

After its reconstruction, it served as the central clubhouse of the FDJ from 1954 and was called the House of Young Talents (HdjT) from 1959 to 1991 . In addition to a large hall for concerts and other event rooms, around 40 groups worked here in a wide variety of areas such as cabaret , dance, pantomime , photography and painting / drawing. From the early 1970s it was also a center for song, folk and world music . The October Club , the Omnibus Choir , the Berlin Singezentrum and the OKK cellar club were located here, and there were festivals of political song , folklore festivals and numerous premieres of song theaters, songwriters and rock bands . Radio amateurs operate their club station in the attic (call sign: Y46ZO).

After reunification

After the house of young talents was closed, the building was again extensively renovated and reopened a year later as “Podewil”. The Berliner Kulturveranstaltungs-GmbH used it as an event location and work and production house for artists. From 2005 to 2007 the house was owned by TESLA-berlin e. V. operated. With the move of the State Opera Unter den Linden to the Schillertheater for the duration of its renovation, the Grips-Theater used the Palais Podewils as a second venue from February 25, 2009, as its previous location in the workshop of the Schiller Theater was closed. In 2006, the Museum Education Service, which is also located in the Palais, merged with the Berliner Kulturveranstaltungs-GmbH to form the state-owned Kulturprojekte Berlin GmbH, which has since been based in Palais Podewils. Kulturprojekte Berlin GmbH develops and realizes large city-wide cultural projects such as the Long Night of Museums, Berlin Art Week, the theme year "Destroyed Diversity" and the anniversaries for the 20th and 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall with the domino campaign and the light border . In addition, the GmbH is active in the areas of cultural education as well as in networking and advising cultural workers. The palace is a listed building .

See also

literature

  • Benedikt Goebel: The conversion of old Berlin into a modern city center. Berlin (Braun Publishing House) 2003.
  • Ralph Hoppe: Across the middle, the monastery district. Berlin (Haude and Spener) 1997.

Web links

Commons : Palais Podewils  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Friedhelm Teicke. Institutions, in: Culture ver leader Berlin. Helmut Metz publishing house. Hamburg, 2005, 5th edition, p. 214, ISBN 978-3-937742-42-7 .
  2. ↑ The omission of the s in the name "Podewils" is due to ignorance. The line "originally a palace of Count Heinrich von Podewil" on the website of the House of Young Talents reveals the spread of this old mistake from the 1950s. The plaque shown above also shows this error with the spelling “Podewilsches”. Inexplicably, perpetuates the culture Berlin GmbH, which in his own words on their site sees its task in the "mediation of Berlin's art, culture and history," this error by continuing designated the seat of the GmbH as "Podewil", although the name of the noble family Podewils from the rear of Pomerania ends in all spelling variants since the 14th century on a voiceless S- / Z-sound (Pudwilz, Padewelsch, Pudewilsch, Pudewelecz etc.).
  3. ^ Kulturprojekte Berlin GmbH: Podewil | Cultural projects Berlin. Retrieved February 26, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Home . In: Long Night of the Museums . ( Lange-nacht-der-museen.de [accessed on February 26, 2018]).
  5. ↑ Berlin Art Week | Berlin Art Week. Accessed February 26, 2018 (English).
  6. ↑ With videos, young people remember the destroyed diversity. Retrieved February 26, 2018 .
  7. ^ Hauke ​​Friederichs: Fall of the Wall: Berlin celebrates "Festival of Freedom" . In: The time . November 9, 2009, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed February 26, 2018]).
  8. ↑ The old border will shine. Retrieved February 26, 2018 .
  9. ^ Kulturprojekte Berlin GmbH: Projects | Cultural projects Berlin. Retrieved February 26, 2018 .
  10. ↑ Palais Podewils in the State Monument List Berlin.

Coordinates: 52 ° 31 ′ 2.7 ″  N , 13 ° 24 ′ 45.9 ″  E