Otto Walter Cuckoo

Otto Walter Kuckuck (born February 3, 1871 in Berlin ; † after 1942 ) was a German architect who lived and worked in Königsberg in East Prussia .

Life

Kuckuck studied at the Technical University (Berlin-) Charlottenburg and then worked for around eight years as a research assistant at this university. In 1904 he got a job as a teacher at the building trade school in Königsberg . In 1909 he opened an office there as a freelance architect. He planned buildings in Königsberg and the surrounding area. From 1911 to 1913 Kuckuck was the editor of the magazine Neue Kunst in Alt-Prußen .

After 1914 he was involved in the restoration of over 300 buildings in East Prussia.

Buildings (selection)

Otto Walter Kuckuck designed primarily residential buildings and villas, but also other buildings, mostly with elements of reform architecture .

year	place	building	Remarks
1906-1907	Rauschen , today Svetlogorsk	Protestant church	with Ernst (?) Wichmann, today the Russian Orthodox Church of St. Seraphim of Sarov
1907	Noise	Power station
1907-1908	Noise	Warm bath with water tower	Sundial attached in the 1970s
before 1910	Königsberg -Amalienau, today Kaliningrad	Parish hall of the Königin-Luise-Gemeinde
1911	Koenigsberg	Society house in the zoo	receive
1912	Koenigsberg	New Luisen Theater / Komische Oper	In 1927 rebuilt into the New Playhouse, rebuilt after severe war damage in 1960, heavily modified, today Dramatic Theater
1913	Georgenswalde , today Otradnoje	Kurhaus	receive
1913-1914	Koenigsberg	Union house
1914	Koenigsberg	Reconstruction and expansion of a warehouse for the Grünbaum company	not received

literature

Cuckoo, Otto Walter . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 22 : Krügner – Leitch . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1928, p. 41-42 .
Nils Aschenbeck : Modern architecture in East Prussia . 1991, p. 11 f . ( ostpreussen.de [PDF; accessed on January 31, 2020]).

Individual evidence

^ The townscape of Rauschen and the surrounding landscape ostpreussen.net
↑ Anke Hoffsten: The People's House of the labor movement in Germany. Community buildings between everyday life and utopia. Böhlau Verlag, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2017, ISBN 978-3-412-50734-3 , p. 463 f. ( limited preview of Google Books )

personal data
SURNAME	Cuckoo, Otto Walter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Cuckoo, Otto; Cuckoo, OW
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German architect
DATE OF BIRTH	February 3, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berlin
DATE OF DEATH	after 1942

[1] The townscape of Rauschen and the surrounding landscape ostpreussen.net

[2] Anke Hoffsten: The People's House of the labor movement in Germany. Community buildings between everyday life and utopia. Böhlau Verlag, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2017, ISBN 978-3-412-50734-3 , p. 463 f. ( limited preview of Google Books )