Otto Voelckers

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Otto Völckers , also: Otto Völckers , (* 9. November 1888 in Kassel , † 6. December 1957 in Munich ) was a German architect and specialized and novel author .

Voelckers was the son of the Senate President at the Higher Regional Court of Hamm, Johannes Heinrich Adolf Voelckers (* on September 24, 1846 in Goddersdorf, Oldenburg district, † November 12, 1912 in Berlin) and Elisabeth Johanna Ernestine Schwerdtfeger (* on November 16 1853 in Travenort in Holstein, † February 14, 1893 in Kassel), who married on October 18, 1876.

Life

In the 1920s Voelckers initially worked as a film architect . He created the extensive film structures in Manfred Noa's two-part monumental silent film Helena from 1924.

At the end of the decade he made the work of the Finnish architect Alvar Aalto known in Germany.

Until 1933 Voelckers was editor of the magazine Stein Holz Eisen .

After the end of the war, Voelckers was very committed to the reconstruction of Munich and was one of the few architects who proposed a radically new form of development in the old town in the sense of a connection with the ideas of New Building . Voelcker's reconstruction plan envisaged a closed new building with large building blocks in cooperative ownership, in whose glass-covered passages and department stores a lively social life was to arise. In the case of the planned rebuilding of the Frankfurt Goethe House , Voelckers pleaded for a complete redesign, but could not prevail against the original design by Theo Kellner .

Voelckers was also known for his designs for emergency small apartments , which were commissioned by the Munich Reconstruction Unit 1945-1946. According to the regulations of the occupation authorities, these tiny apartments were only allowed to have a maximum living space of 4 m² per person; Voelckers tried to “get the best possible out of usability, cosiness and beauty” from these restrictions .

From 1950 until his death he was co-editor of the specialist magazine Glasforum . Voelckers was a member of the German Werkbund (DWB).

Otto Voelckers had been with Maria Theresia Voelckers, born March 9, 1912. Kayser (born July 4, 1883 in Berlin) the daughter of the geologist Emanuel Kayser and niece of the physicist Heinrich Kayser married. The marriage resulted in two children, the conductor and musicologist Jürgen Völckers (1913-1990) and the doctor Renate Cäcilie Voelckers (born October 5, 1915 in Munich).

plant

Fonts

Novels

  • The blacksmith of the gods. Life and love of Hephaestus. Societäts-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 1939, 3rd A. 1962.
  • The immortals. Encounters with the gods and heroes of the ancient world . With 10 watercolors by Marie Reimer. Gebr. Richter's publishing house, Erfurt, 1943.

Specialist literature

  • The new elementary school in Celle - A contribution to the problem of the modern school building. Verlag Englert & Schlosser, Frankfurt am Main 1929.
  • Housing Guide. For beginners and those who don't believe they are anymore. Julius Hoffmann Verlag, Stuttgart 1932.
  • German house primer. Staackmann, Leipzig 1937.
  • Glass and window. Its essence, its history and its significance in the present. Bauwelt Verlag, Berlin 1939.
  • Village and town. A German primer. Staackmann, Leipzig 1942.
  • Glass as a building material. Publishing company Rudolf Müller, Eberswalde, Berlin, Leipzig, 1944.
  • Building with glass. Julius Hoffmann Verlag, Stuttgart 1948.
  • Floor plan in residential buildings , Julius Hoffmann Verlag, Stuttgart 1948.
  • The floor plan. 1400 floor plans of all kinds of buildings with explanations, sections and diagrams. Julius Hoffmann Verlag, Stuttgart 1949 (3rd edition).
  • Living space and household items. A primer. Baessler, Bamberg 1949.
  • Windows with or without bars? , German Libbey Owens Society, Gelsenkirchen-Rotthausen, 1949.
  • This is how the peoples of the earth live. Cassineum, Donauwörth 1949.

Essays

  • The monastery complexes of the Karthauser in Germany . In: Zeitschrift für Bauwesen , vol. 71, 1921, pp. 313–322 ( digitized version of the Central and State Library Berlin ).
  • Ottobeuren . In: Zeitschrift für Bauwesen , vol. 72, 1922, pp. 288–298 ( digitized version of the Central and State Library Berlin ).
  • Megaron, new contribution to monuments of occidental housing in: Monthly books for architecture and urban development, Bauwelt-Verlag, Berlin, Volume 22, 1938, pp. 241–248.
  • The House of Odysseus , pp. 43–46.
  • How the Nations Live , pp. 56–60.
  • European town houses in antiquity and the Middle Ages. Drawn and described by Otto Völckers. Lindauer Bilderbogen No. 14, Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Lindau, 1948.
  • European town houses from the Renaissance to modern times. Drawn and described by Otto Völckers . Lindauer Bilderbogen No. 14, Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Lindau, 1948.

Buildings and designs

  • 1914: Design of the Kammersänger K. house in Munich
  • before 1915: Dr. Drevermann in Frankfurt- Eschersheim , Häberlinstrasse / Keßlerstrasse (changed)
  • before 1915: Design for a house and garden on Schloßberg in Marburg
  • 1923: Design of the sets for the two-part monumental film Helena
  • 1925: Design for a large terraced house in dark red for Munich
  • before 1926: Haus Auf der Kupferschmiede
  • 1928: Small apartment at the Munich exhibition "Home and Technology"

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Otto Voelckers | filmportal.de. Retrieved April 13, 2018 .
  2. ^ Susanne Müller: Aalto and Wolfsburg. A Scandinavian contribution to German post-war architecture. 2008. ISBN 978-3-89739-578-7 .
  3. ↑ Winfried Nerdinger (Ed.): Construction time. Plan and build. Munich 1945-1950. Munich, 1984, ISBN 3-406-09825-8 , p. 105.
  4. ^ Glasforum 1/1958, Verlag Karl Hofmann, Schorndorf near Stuttgart
  5. ↑ Bernhard Koerner: East German Gender Book, Volume 1. Starke, Görlitz 1928, p. 151 ff.
  6. ↑ a b c On the work of v. Otto Völckers. In: Interior Decoration , Volume 26, 1915, Issue 8, pp. 305-312. (Digitized version)
  7. ↑ Modern designs , year 1926, issue 8, p. #.
  8. ↑ Der Städtebau , year 1926, issue 8, p. #.
personal data
SURNAME Voelckers, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Völckers, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH November 9, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH kassel
DATE OF DEATH December 6, 1957
Place of death Munich