Joseph Ostwald

Playhouse from 1910 in Neustadt

Walter office building

Joseph (Josef) Ostwald (born March 17, 1879 in Essen ; † December 9, 1950 in Bremen ) was a German architect .

biography

Ostwald was the son of a master plumber. He learned the trade of bricklayer. From 1900 to 1904 he studied structural engineering at the Technikum Bremen . From 1906 he ran an independent architecture office in Bremen. He designed and built residential and commercial buildings.

From 1908 he planned conversions and new construction of cinemas for the cinema entrepreneur Johannes Hagen. In 1908 he converted Ahlborn's winter garden in Ansgariistraße to the Metropoltheater . In 1910 he planned the new building of the Opera Theater (later Kaiser Theater , Liberty Palace Theater and 1965 shopping center). His 1910 conversion of the Neustädter Tonhallen on Neustadtswall into a theater for Eduard Ichon and Johannes Wiegand had a simple facade dominated by six rectangular pilasters . From 1908 to 1910, Tobeck's restaurant was converted into the Astoria variety and dance restaurant in Katharinenstrasse for restaurateur Emil Fritz ; the 1928 renovation was also carried out according to his plans. In 1915 he planned the Walter office building in Bremen, Am Wall 148.

In 1926 the new building for the Europa-Palast cinema was built on Herdentorsteinweg and in 1929 the Schauburg cinema . To 1928/30 the urban dominant was Tipphoikenhaus Am Brill corner Hutfilterstraße in the style of classic modern ( Bauhaus ) and 1932 the reconstruction of the theater hall from Tivoli to the pasture to a movie theater.

From 1942 to 1948 he worked with the architect Heinz-Georg Rehberg in an office community. From 1939 to 1943, both of them rebuilt the 3,000-person central halls from 1856 on Düsternstrasse. Many of his buildings were destroyed in World War II, including the Centralhallen. In 1945 the Concordia restaurant in Schwachhauser Heerstrasse was converted into the Bremen art theater of the same name. In 1948, the UT cinemas in the bombed Tivoli were set up again on Bahnhofsplatz. The new Astorias building from 1950 was also based on a design by Ostwald.

literature

• Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .