Lessinghaus (Berlin-Mitte)
Lessinghaus is the slang term for a reconstructed town house in the Nikolaiviertel in the medieval city center of Berlin . The poet and playwright Gotthold Ephraim Lessing lived here from 1752 to 1775.
location
The Lessinghaus is located at the former Nikolaikirchhof 10 , since 1986 Nikolaikirchplatz 7 . It is part of the town houses behind the Nikolaikirche .
history
Lessing met Moses Mendelssohn from Nikolaikirchhof , with whom he remained lifelong friends. Mendelssohn is considered the first internationally important German-language Jewish writer.
He also made friends with the bookseller Friedrich Nicolai and the lecturer Gumpertz, who was the first scientist of the Jewish faith to break the Christian monopoly on education as a bourgeois private tutor after King Friedrich II's edict of tolerance .
Lessing did not finish Minna von Barnhelm , written in Breslau, as the plaque suggests . He later did this in his apartment at Am Königsgraben 10 , roughly where the Fountain of Friendship between Nations now stands on Alexanderplatz .
reconstruction
Lessing House is in the years 1985/1986 as part of the Nikolai Quarter by architect Günter Stahnsdorfer ago largely on a historical site from the exterior faithfully reconstructed Service. Today the Lessinghaus u. a. Anthea Verlag, which re-publishes Lessing's main works in its edition Lessinghaus series , edited by Martin A. Völker . In 2017 the band Emilia Galotti was released and in 2018 the band Minna von Barnhelm .
literature
- Günter Stahn: Berlin. The Nikolaiviertel. Berlin 1991, Verlag für Bauwesen, ISBN 3-345-00417-8
- Uwe Kießling, Johannes Althoff: The Nikolaiviertel . Berlin 2001, Berlin Edition
- Benedikt Goebel: The conversion of old Berlin into a modern city center. Berlin 2003, publishing house Braun
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ At the Königsgraben . In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein
- ↑ http://anthea-verlagsgruppe.de
Coordinates: 52 ° 30 '59.9 " N , 13 ° 24' 28.8" E