Konrad Sage

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Konrad Sage (born January 6, 1911 in Berlin ; † September 21, 1989 in Müllheim (Baden) ) was a German architect who mainly worked in Berlin, as well as a university professor , and temporarily director .

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Konrad Sage studied architecture from 1929 to 1935 at the Technical University in Berlin-Charlottenburg and graduated with a degree in architecture. As a so-called “ half-Jew ” he was not accepted into the Reich Chamber of Fine Arts and had to work as a “freelancer” for the industrial and warehouse architect Ernst Neufert , where he initially worked on his architectural design apprenticeship. Then between 1935 and 1938 he assisted Neufert in the planning of several single-family houses. In 1944 he was banned from practicing his profession , which meant that his activities for Neufert were limited to site management and office work before he was interned in the same year .

New Westend Church

After the war he became (as a politically unaffected architect) early professor at the University of Fine Arts in Berlin for architectural design, construction and building theory. In 1959, Sage was temporarily head of the master school for arts and crafts in Charlottenburg for a transitional period. On January 1, 1974, the then director of the Academy of Fine Arts, Ludwig Schrieber, resigned from his position due to illness and Konrad Sage was elected director; he remained so until the establishment of the "Hochschule der Künste" (HDK) on September 30, 1975, which was achieved through merger . He held lectures until 1976. He was temporarily president of the Berlin Chamber of Architects and from 1965 until - according to the statutes - 1971 BDA - President. On June 16, 1972 he was made an honorary member of the BDA.

As an architect, his specialty was industrial and church construction . He showed a preference for triangles, trapezoids and irregular polygons and preferred new building materials. The first aluminum roof of a Berlin church on the Epiphany Church in the Westend district of Berlin-Charlottenburg is evidence of the latter . The Neu-Westend Church , completed in 1960 , also in Berlin-Westend, bears witness to the former . Instead of a "stronghold of faith" with Christian decorations, as the parishioners were used to and what they insisted on, he and Pastor Winfried Maechler developed at least a symbolic place of protection with pointed "defending" triangles everywhere on the building and a "sheltering" tent roof For formerly persecuted and currently misunderstood such as Jews, leftists , Jehovah's Witnesses . In particular, the theologian and resistance fighter Dietrich Bonhoeffer , whose family had lived nearby, was thought of during the conception . The controversial church has since been declared a monument.

Buildings (selection)

Electrica, Lankwitz, 1957
  • 1956–1957: Electrica capacitors factory, Berlin-Lankwitz
  • 1957–1960: Epiphany Church, Berlin-Westend
  • 1958–1960: Neu-Westend Church, Berlin-Westend
  • 1964–1967: House of the Church / Office for Church Services (AKD), Berlin-Charlottenburg

Fonts (selection)

  • Where is the Protestant church building today? In: Art and Church. Architecture, painting, sculpture, equipment. Quarterly magazine for church building and church art , 20th year, issue 1, March 1957, pp. 9–12.
  • Robinson came to a desert island. In: The Architect , Issue 1/1968, pp. 11-14.
  • Where, how and to what end do you study architecture? In: Reprint of the magazine Der Architekt: The training of the architect. Reform proposal and documentation 1968 , October 1968, pp. 337–342.
  • Insights and directions. In: Architects build hospitals. Architects build hospitals. Architectes construisent des hôpitaux , special issue 1970 by Der Architekt , Vulkan-Verlag Dr. W. Classen, Essen 1970, pp. III – VIII.
  • Documentation and commentary competition Federal Chancellery new building. In: The Architect , Issue 3/1971, pp. 85–91.
  • Reproducible buildings. In: The Architect , Issue 1/1972, pp. 27–29.
  • From planning to building acceptance. When someone builds his house. A guide for the builder. Domus-Verlag, Bonn 1974, ISBN 3-87169-216-6 .
  • Architects and Architecture in the Third Reich. A four-way conversation between Prof. Dipl. Ing. Max Bächler, Architect BDA, Prof. Dipl. Ing. Konrad Sage, Architect, BDA, Dr. Martin Steinmann, archithese, Dr. Werner Strodthoff, Kölner Stadtanzeiger. Revision: Ulrich S. von Altenstadt. In: The Architect , Issue 7–8 / 1983, pp. 367–372.

Editions

  • House technology manual. Volume 1: Heating systems, electrical systems and general conveying systems. Ullstein, Berlin / Frankfurt am Main / Vienna 1967.
  • House technology manual. Volume 2: Ventilation systems, health systems, industrial conveyor systems. Ullstein, Berlin / Frankfurt am Main / Vienna 1971.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d For his 60th birthday . In: The Architect . Issue 1, 1978, pp. 2-4 .
  2. ↑ a b c d Kurt Nelius, Liane Nelius: The Neu-Westend Church - an uncomfortable monument? (PDF; 240 KB) In: otto-bartning.de. Pp. 2–4 , accessed on July 31, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Master School for the Crafts 1899-1971. In: udk-berlin.de. Accessed July 31, 2020 .
  4. ^ Detlef M. Noack : Thoughts and memories on the history of Faculty 1 of the HdK Berlin . In: Press office of the Berlin University of the Arts on behalf of the President in cooperation with the Staatliche Kunsthalle Berlin. Responsible: Rainer E. Klemke (Ed.): Sculptor and painter at Steinplatz. The teachers of the visual arts department at the Berlin University of the Arts. 1945-1986 . Exhibition from October 29th to November 23rd, 1986. Staatliche Kunsthalle Berlin in cooperation with the Berlin University of the Arts. Press office of the University of the Arts, Berlin 1986, p. 18, note 23 .
  5. ^ Eva-Maria Barkhofen (Ed.): Architecture in the archive. The collection of the Academy of Arts . DOM Publishers, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-86922-492-3 , Konrad Sage, p. 540 .
  6. ↑ Herbert W. Kapitzki : Design: Method and Consequence. A biographical report . Edition Axel Menges, Stuttgart / London 1997, ISBN 3-930698-57-9 , When characters don't deceive. Berlin model, S. 46 .
  7. ↑ New Presidium of the BDA . In: The Architect. With information on building rationalization . December 1971, p. 289 .
  8. ↑ Joachim Matthaei: Laudation for Konrad Sage . In: The Architect. Organ of the Association of German Architects BDA . July 1972, p. 169 .
personal data
SURNAME Say, Konrad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and university director
DATE OF BIRTH January 6, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH September 21, 1989
Place of death Muellheim (Baden)