Irene Moessinger

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Irene Moessinger (born October 14, 1949 ) is a German cultural manager and former squatter , who became known as the founder and long-time boss of the Berlin Tempodrom .

Life

Moessinger was born to Wilhelm Moessinger (1919–1972) and Margarete Gräfin zu Lynar (* 1919). She spent her childhood in southern Spain and her youth on Lake Constance, as her father insisted that the children go to a German high school. Her parents both come from horse breeding families.

Moessinger initially wanted to become a journalist. However , she gave up training at the Munich School of Journalism in 1969 after three months. She then studied sociology, crime pedagogy and law in Munich for a year. After further studies in art education, Moessinger moved from Munich to Berlin and lived in an occupied house. During the times of the Berlin allowance , she worked for a short time in various factories, for example at DeTeWe , Schering and in the textile industry.

After suffering from an illness that required hospitalization, she decided to become a nurse . After her training, she worked for a while as a specialist nurse for intensive care in an intensive care unit at the Berlin Urban Hospital .

She received 800,000 DM from her father's inheritance, which she invested in 1980 in founding the Tempodrom , a kind of alternative circus in a tent. The Tempodrom was initially located near Potsdamer Platz and moved to Berlin's Tiergarten in 1985 . In 1995 the Tempodrom had to give way to the new Chancellery and was subsequently given a permanent new building at the Anhalter Bahnhof .

Although the Tempodrom project itself was in the black, the investor and main owner reported insolvency, for which Moessinger had deposited a guarantee , which was then due. In 2005, after the project was sold by the insolvency administrator, she and her business partner Norbert Waehl resigned from the management of the Tempodrom. After the Tempodrom went bankrupt in 2004, a long-term lawsuit against Moessinger and her partner Waehl for suspected infidelity took place in 2007/2008 . which ended in an acquittal. According to a report by the Berliner Tagesspiegel, Moessinger was living on unemployment benefit II in Berlin-Neukölln in 2008 . After a period of retreat, the then 60-year-old developed a special therapeutic work with horses and people within three years.

Moessinger lives in Berlin and works in the Berlin area, where she offers horse therapies for children and adults. She is the mother of the sculptor Katharina Moessinger (* 1974) and has a granddaughter.

Her autobiography Berlin lies by the sea was published by Galiani Verlag in Berlin on August 16, 2018 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Page about Moessinger's mother on GeneAll.net
  2. ↑ Tempodrom boss Irene Moessinger. Do you have to go to the social welfare office now? In: BZ , April 3, 2004.
  3. ↑ Manuel Özcerkes: Irene Moessinger, head of the Tempodrom . In: Berliner Zeitung , July 24, 1999 (in other media there are several references to half a million marks).
  4. ↑ Philip Grassmann: The end of a hero legend . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , January 9, 2008.
  5. ^ Original words of the judge, see autobiography
  6. ↑ Jan Thomsen: Tempodrom affair ends with acquittals. The founders of the Kulturhaus, Irene Moessinger and Norbert Waehl, are "proven innocent" . In: Berliner Zeitung , January 19, 2008.
  7. ↑ Moessinger's summit cross . In: Der Tagesspiegel , January 18, 2008.
  8. ↑ What became of ... Irene Moessinger? ( Memento from December 22, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) , Hallo Deutschland from June 17, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Moessinger, Irene
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur and cultural manager
DATE OF BIRTH October 14, 1949