Rudolf Hönigsfeld

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Rudolf Hönigsfeld ( August 21, 1902 in Auspitz , South Moravia - March 23, 1977 in Vienna ) was an Austrian architect .

Life

From 1925 he lived and had his studio in Vienna 3rd, Obere Weißgerberstraße 24. (The last time Lehmann's address book was in 1939 was the civil servant Elisabeth Hönigsfeld.) He is said to have belonged to the KPÖ at the time; this could explain his low level of commissioning after 1945, since communists were rejected by the vast majority of Austrians, especially in the post-war period , when Austria was partly occupied by the Red Army .

He is said to have "survived the Nazi era in Austria as a homeless person on the street". In the work Displaced Reason , edited by Friedrich Stadler , he was included in a text by Friedrich Achleitner in the list of those who (to) left Austria during the National Socialist era . Achleitner later stated that Hönigsfeld had survived the years 1942–1945 as a “submarine” in Vienna. Hönigsfeld was persecuted by the Nazi regime for both racial and political reasons and only survived by luck.

In the Yad Vashem memorial in Israel , the testimony recorded in Vienna in 1975 in Vienna, presumably of Rudolf Hönigsfeld (there was a man of the same name murdered during the Nazi era in what is now the Czech Republic ) is kept in the department for oral testimony , which is entitled “ Aktion Gildemeester “- was provided as a submarine in Vienna .

Hönigsfeld died on March 23, 1977. He was cremated and the ashes were buried on April 1, 1977 in the urn grove of the Simmering fire hall in Vienna (Section 7, Ring 2, Group 5, No. 19).

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1923/1924: collaboration with Moreno

In December 1923 there was a collaboration between Hönigsfeld and Jacob Levy Moreno , the later inventor of the psychodrama . Based on the impromptu Morenos theater, they jointly designed a theater without an audience . “In connection with the International Exhibition for Theater Technology in the autumn of 1924 [in Vienna] Jakob Levy Moreno planned the opening of an impromptu theater with the appropriate space and stage construction. Plans and drafts were delayed. In the end, it was just possible to include a draft of the stage, carried out by the architect Rudolf Hönigsfeld, in the exhibition catalog.

At the opening of the exhibition there was a scandal in front of the assembled press and Mayor Seitz , because Levy Moreno described the spatial stage by Friedrich Kiesler as a plagiarism of his own ideas. "Kiesler complained about this, but Moreno was acquitted by the Supreme Court in Vienna. (Moreno and Kiesler were already living in the United States at the time of this acquittal.)

Around 1930: Werkbundsiedlung

His work on the Wiener Werkbundsiedlung seems to be guaranteed by various sources . There is no precise information about which of the well-known architects of the Hönigsfeld estate worked for.

1946: Memorial for victims of the Nazi judiciary

In 1946, Hönigsfeld designed a memorial in the main ÖBB workshop in Simmering (11th, Grillgasse 48). The plaques remember the railway workers Karl Alberstetter , Josef Bischof , Richard Holy , Rudolf Johann Marsik , Karl Medwed , Wilhelm Pfeiler , Ferdinand Picka , Aladar Schlesinger , Jarolin Tesar and Otto Wehofschitz , all victims of National Socialism , either executed by guillotine in the Vienna Regional Court or abducted to concentration camps and killed there.

The unveiling of the memorial took place on September 28, 1946 by the representative of the former concentration camp prisoners among the railway workers, Rudolf Kroneis . The commemorative speeches were held by Vice Chancellor Adolf Schärf , Communist City Councilor Viktor Matejka , the Chairman of the Railway Workers Union Richard Freund , the concentration camp survivor and SPÖ National Councilor Rosa Jochmann and the municipal councilors Josef Lauscher (KPÖ) and Josef Seifert ( ÖVP ).

Author of the journal "Diary"

In her diploma thesis at the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Vienna, Christina Koppel stated in 1995 that Hönigsfeld - alongside Wilhelm Schütte and Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky - in the communist Viennese journal Tagebuch (the years 1950 to 1960 were evaluated) “about architecture, urban planning and about their (poor) performance ”wrote.

1965–1967: Municipal housing

As Achleitner noted, Hönigsfeld designed the municipal housing complex 23, Karl-Schwed-Gasse 75-81 together with others from 1965–1967. In this context, Achleitner criticized that the building departments of the municipal authorities of Vienna had in the post-war years ... showed a certain ignorance or blindness to the creative resources of architects . He cites Hönigsfeld as an example, who was one of the internationally recognized architects of Austrian modernism , and mentions the prize awarded to him as Premio d'oro (see below).

1968: Regolo d'oro

In 1968 the Italian architecture magazine domus reported on an ideas competition organized by Brenta Precompressi AB to “achieve a new architectural expression using prefabricated or prestressed elements made of reinforced concrete”. The Vienna working group of architects Rudolf Hönigsfeld and Raimund Haintz were among the five winners . The jury was made up of very prominent figures with Giovanni Michelucci , Pier Luigi Nervi , Joseph Rykwert , Gio Ponti and Andrea Brenta as representatives of the award-winning company. No cash prizes were awarded, but a golden slide rule (Regolo d'oro) and the opportunity to "follow up and evaluate the work within the Brenta company."

Rudolf Hönigsfeld Prize

The Forum for Experimental Architecture (fea) awards or bestows “an equally unusual and unknown prize” - the Rudolf Hönigsfeld Prize , donated by the Vienna Künstlerhaus member Wulf Bugatti (born 1939). The prize is dedicated to the "underground education work". So far, only two winners are known:

  • 20 ?? Wolfgang Heidrich
  • 2012 Elke Krasny , cultural theorist and urban researcher

Heidrich had to nominate his successor as a prizewinner and chose Krasny.

On the occasion of the award ceremony in 2012, the Austrian architect Friedrich Kurrent spoke about the award's namesake. He also mentioned Hönigsfeld in his article The Rescue of the Wittgenstein House as a contact person for Nikolaus Pevsner in London in 1971.

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  1. ^ Volker Thurm: Vienna and the Vienna Circle. Places of an unfinished modern age. A companion book. ( Memento of the original from February 12, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Facultas-Verlag, Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-85114-777-4 , p. 136, margin number 477. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / books.google.at
  2. ^ The “Rudolf Hönigsfeld Prize”. In: Leporello . Ö1 , October 15, 2012, accessed December 8, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Friedrich Achleitner : The evicted architecture. In: Friedrich Stadler (Ed.): Displaced Reason: Emigration and Exile of Austrian Science 1930–1940. 2nd Edition. Part 2, Lit-Verlag, Münster 2004, ISBN 3-8258-7373-0 , p. 624.
  4. ^ Austrian Historical Commission (ed.), Theodor Venus, Alexandra-Eileen Wenck (authors): The deprivation of Jewish assets in the Gildemeester campaign. R. Oldenbourg Verlag, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-7029-0496-4 , p. 460, note 982.
  5. ↑ birth and death and funeral details on the website of the municipal cemetery www.friedhoefewien.at operation
  6. ^ Archives for the history of sociology in Austria: Jacob Levy Moreno und das Barackenlager , accessed on February 11, 2015.
  7. ^ Association of female artists in Austria : Jakob Levy Moreno . With two architectural sketches by Rudolf Hönigsfeld, accessed on February 11, 2015.
  8. ^ Lajos Kassák : Vienna and Constructivism 1920–1926 . Peter Lang 2010.
  9. ^ Friedrich Stadler: Displaced Reason , Vienna 1987.
  10. ^ Friedrich Achleitner: Viennese architecture: Between typological fatalism and semantic mess , Vienna 1996.
  11. ↑ Wolfgang Böhm, Eduard Sekler : The building and the city . Vienna 1994.
  12. ^ Nachkriegsjustiz.at : memorial (ÖBB main workshop Simmering), accessed on February 10, 2015.
  13. ↑ Christina Koppel: Loyalty to the line and liberality . The reception of contemporary Austrian literature in the communist “diary”, 1950–1960, University of Vienna 1995, p. 34
  14. ^ Friedrich Achleitner : Austrian architecture in the 20th century. A guide in four volumes , Volume III / 3, Vienna: 19. – 23. District, Residenz Verlag, St. Pölten, Salzburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-7017-3209-8 , p. 408
  15. ↑ Friedrich Achleitner: The golden slide rule. Unknown publication, accessed February 11, 2015.
  16. ^ ORF , Leporello: Rudolf Hönigsfeld Prize , October 15, 2012.
  17. ↑ esel.at : fea award ceremony , accessed on February 11, 2015.
  18. ↑ Vienna. A reader. , P. 83, accessed February 11, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Hönigsfeld, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian architect
DATE OF BIRTH August 21, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Auspitz , South Moravia
DATE OF DEATH March 23, 1977
Place of death Vienna