Schlueterstrasse 45 (Berlin)

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House Schlueterstrasse 45

The building at Schlüterstrasse 45 in the Berlin district of Charlottenburg was built in 1911/1912 as an apartment building by the construction company Boswau & Knauer for Robert Leibbrand, representative of the mortgage department of the Stuttgarter Lebensversicherungsbank AG . It is a listed building monument .

history

From 1921 the businessman Max Nedim is given as the owner, who also lived there, but from 1922 he is given as Constantinople . From 1932 the owner “B. Libermann (foreign) ”, from 1939 no owner is recorded any more, but this is given as“ anonymous ”.

The house was expropriated in 1942 and converted into a commercial building, which also has regular residents. After the Aryanization , the Reich Chamber of Culture moved in with its director Hans Hinkel .

Since the files of the Reich Chamber of Culture were preserved here even after the end of the war , the British occupation authorities set up a denazification facility on the third floor , where artists such as Gustaf Gründgens , Wilhelm Furtwängler and Heinz Rühmann had to appear. After 1945 the Chamber of Cultural Creators was established here , which organized the first art exhibition after the war in July 1945, as well as the Kulturbund for the democratic renewal of Germany . From 1958 it was called the Deutscher Kulturbund and from 1974 until its dissolution in 1990 the Kulturbund of the GDR .

Oskar Skaller

Oskar Skaller, who is listed in the Berlin address book from 1919 to 1932 in Schlüterstrasse, was an entrepreneur in the field of medical supplies and the manufacture and sale of bandages , surgical instruments, hospital furniture and pharmaceuticals. In addition to Oskar Skaller AG, he was also involved in M. Pech AG, a medical supply store that existed until the 2000s. He had important collections of Persian ceramics and Impressionist paintings, a. a. by Vincent van Gogh . There was a portrait of Max Liebermann from 1924 , which has been lost since it was confiscated and auctioned in 1942.

On the ground floor, artists and politicians met at the Oskar Skaller family. The young clarinetist Benny Goodman is said to have performed at one of the parties .

Yva

The photographer Yva
Staircase to Yva's studio

During its time as a residential building, it housed the photographer Yva (actually: Else Ernestine Neuländer-Simon ), who was the teacher of Helmut Newton and Bill Godwin . The studio and apartment she shared with her husband Alfred Simon was on the fourth and fifth floors. Many of her famous fashion photos were taken on the stairs between the floors and on the roof garden. At times, Yva employed up to ten people in her studio. Helmut Newton worked for her from 1936, initially as an apprentice and later as an assistant. Today a small exhibition on the fourth floor of the house commemorates them. Due to the ordinance on the elimination of Jews from German economic life of November 12, 1938, she had to close her studio and give up the shared apartment. On June 1, 1942, she and her husband were arrested by the Gestapo . Osttransport ”was deported to the Sobibor extermination camp . Some of the deportees were sent to the nearby Majdanek concentration camp . Since there are no transport lists for this transport, the exact fate of Else and Alfred Simon is unknown. It can be assumed that both were murdered shortly after their arrival. They were officially declared dead on December 31, 1944.

Hotel Bogota

Canopy in front of the entrance

As early as 1940, the Berlin address book lists a hostel run by Ms. L. Werner, who has already been registered as a resident.

After the transfer back to the heirs of the expropriated owner, they sold the building to the DGB , which operated it as an educational establishment. After another sale and renovation of the house, four hotels were established in the building in 1964, the Pension Jahn on the first floor , the Rheinische Hof on the second and the Bergische Hof on the third , of which the Hotel Bogota is the former studio of Yva fourth and fifth floors. The hotel got its name from Heinz Rewald, who in the 1930s to Bogota , the capital of Colombia , fleeing Nazi persecution emigrated was. On his return he brought some furniture and decorative objects with him, which he used to furnish the hotel. Over the years, Rewald took over the other guesthouses, so that the Hotel Bogota finally extended over the entire building and now had 115 rooms.

In 1976 the Rissmann family took over the hotel, which was last run by Joachim Rissmann. He dealt intensively with the history of the house and documented it. Therefore, following on from the tradition founded by Yva, he developed the house into a house of photography, in which since the end of 2004 photographs have been shown in a “photo space” in changing exhibitions. In 2002, Helmut Newton visited Yva's former studio, which is now used as an apartment by the Rissmann family, and remarked: “Nothing had changed, even the chandelier was still hanging on the ceiling”.

In 2005 the house was bought by Thomas Bscher . In 2006 Joachim Rissmann took over the management of the hotel.

In May 2013 the lease was terminated due to rental debts. A number of well-known artists protested against this under the motto “Bogota must not die!”, Including Hanna Schygulla , Eva Mattes , Ulrich Matthes , Lars Eidinger , Martin Parr and many others. In 2013, the photographer Rainer Strzolka is working on a complete documentation of the premises. The hotel finally closed on November 30, 2013. On December 1, an open day was held there to say goodbye, at which furniture parts were also sold. The interior was then auctioned in order to be able to settle part of the accrued rent.

The office of the architect Eckart Muthesius , who died in 1989, was located in the basement, and his successors continue to use the furnishings.

Current usage

After extensive renovation in 2014 and 2015, the building has been used as an office and commercial building since 2016. Prominent tenants included the designer Wolfgang Joop with a new company headquarters and a studio for the Wunderkind fashion brand in Yva's former apartment on the fourth and fifth floors. The Wunderkind company has since moved out. Yva's former apartment is now used by a law firm. The concept store The Corner Berlin and a branch of the French confectionery manufacturer Maison Ladurée have been on the ground floor since October 2018 .

Web links

Commons : Hotel Bogota  - Collection of images
Commons : Yva  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Schlueterstrasse 45 . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1912, part 3, p. 765.
  2. ↑ LDL Mietshaus Schlueterstrasse 45 accessed on June 2, 2013
  3. ↑ Schlueterstrasse 45 . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1921, Part 3, p. 759.
  4. ↑ Schlueterstrasse 45 . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1932, part 4, p. 1176.
  5. ↑ a b Schlüterstrasse 45 . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1939, part 4, p. 1164.
  6. ↑ Corporate structure, business and professional representatives . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1943, part 3, p. 75.
  7. ^ Oskar Skaller AG Friends of Historical Securities
  8. ↑ M. Pech AG for the sanitary needs Friends of historical securities
  9. ^ Portrait of Oskar Skaller Lost Art Coordination Office Magdeburg
  10. ↑ Stumbling blocks at Schlüterstrasse. 45 . Bezirkslexikon on berlin.de; Retrieved June 3, 2013
  11. ↑ Schlueterstrasse 45 . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1940, part 4, p. 1154.
  12. ↑ Andreas Wenderoth: The charm of the small cracks . ( Memento of September 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 663 kB) In: Die Zeit , No. 30/2013, p. 55
  13. ^ Susanne Kippenberger : Schlueterstrasse 45. In: Der Tagesspiegel . July 5, 2003, accessed June 2, 2013 .
  14. ^ Die Zeit, July 13, 2013, p. 55.
  15. ^ Die Zeit, July 13, 2013, p. 55.
  16. ↑ Andreas Conrad: Hotel Bogota will soon be 50. Now the landlord has given notice. In: Der Tagesspiegel. May 4, 2013, accessed June 2, 2013 .
  17. ↑ Susanne Kippenberger: Bogota must not die! In: Der Tagesspiegel. May 31, 2013, accessed June 2, 2013 .
  18. ^ Hiltrud Bontrup: Berlin Hotel Bogota: End of legend. In: Spiegel Online . November 15, 2013. Retrieved November 15, 2013 .
  19. ↑ Shop-in-shops: The Corner and Ladurée open concept stores in Berlin. Retrieved January 3, 2019 .

Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 1.8 ″  N , 13 ° 19 ′ 1.4 ″  E