Lotte Cohn
Lotte Cohn (actually Recha Charlotte Cohn ; born August 20, 1893 in Charlottenburg near Berlin ; † April 7, 1983 in Tel Aviv ) was an Israeli architect of German-Jewish origin.
Life
Lotte Cohn grew up in Charlottenburg as the daughter of the doctor Bernhard Cohn and his wife Caecilie, née Sabersky. The rabbi and author Emil Bernhard Cohn was one of her six siblings .
In 1916 Lotte Cohn was one of the first women to take the diploma examination at the TH Charlottenburg (now the Technical University of Berlin ). Since 1917 she and her friend Gertrud Ferchland have been involved in the reconstruction in East Prussia , and in 1920/1921 she worked in the office of the architect Richard Michel.
As a Zionist she dedicated herself to “building for Erez Israel ” and in 1921 emigrated to Palestine . There she worked initially as an employee / partner of Richard Kauffmann in Jerusalem, later from 1929 to 1968 as a freelance architect in Tel Aviv. From 1952 she worked with Yehuda Lavie (born Ernst Loewisohn; 1910-1998), who was also born in Berlin. She visited Germany twice.
She developed her own ideas for building settlements in keeping with the country and rejected single-family houses based on the German model, since, in her opinion, they seduced the residents into a "bourgeois way of life" and developed the modern garden cities, so-called kibbutzim , with Kauffmann . In almost 50 years she was responsible for over 100 construction projects.
literature
- Ines Sonder: Lotte Cohn: Builder of the Land of Israel; a biography , Berlin: Jüdischer Verl. im Suhrkamp Verl., 2010, ISBN 978-3-633-54238-3
- Ines Sonder: Lotte Cohn - Pioneer Woman Architect in Israel. Catalog of Buildings and Projects , Tel Aviv: Bauhaus Center Tel Aviv, 2009, [English / Hebrew], ISBN 978-965-90606-5-8
- Missy-Magazine 2/12, p. 15, article by Silvia Follmann
Web links
- Reference to suhrkamp
- Lotte Cohn. In: arch INFORM .
- Construction network week special (PDF; 3.8 MB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Birth register of the StA Charlottenburg, No. 2153/1893
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cohn, Lotte |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Israeli architect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 20, 1893 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Charlottenburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 7, 1983 |
| Place of death | Tel Aviv |