Stefanie Zwirn

Stefanie Zwirn (born June 5, 1896 in Berlin ; † unknown) was a German architect .

Life

Stefanie Zwirn began studying architecture at the TH Berlin-Charlottenburg in 1917 , which she continued after completing her intermediate diploma in 1919 and a subsequent internship at the settler school in Worpswede , from 1920 at the TH Karlsruhe and graduating in 1922 as a qualified engineer. In 1932 she took part in the great Berlin summer show Sun, Air and House for Everyone in the Allotment Garden department , which was directed by Fritz Spannagel , the director of the Berlin carpenter's school. She presented five individual residential gazebos between 21 and 37 square meters for one to six people. All residential gazebos were designed as timber frame houses according to ecological principles. They were prefabricated and could be erected by the buyers themselves according to assembly instructions. In 1932, together with Fritz Spannagel, she published a Bauwelt special , in which, in addition to her own arbors and a small house designed by her, twenty other inexpensive summer and residential arbors were shown. In other Bauwelt special editions , two of the buildings she realized were also published: a small single-family house in Fichtenau near Berlin and a spacious, middle-class house in Berlin-Zehlendorf. Stefanie Zwirn became known beyond specialist circles in the early 1930s through her publications, which appeared in large numbers.

After the handover of power to the National Socialists in 1933, she was obliged as a Jew to do forced labor for the German weapons and ammunition factories in Bernau near Berlin. Since 1945 she has been considered missing, the place and year of her death are unknown.

Works

• House with three rooms in Fichtenau near Berlin
• Apartment building with eight rooms in Berlin-Zehlendorf
• Housing arbor for a family with one or two children
• Housing arbor for large numbers of children
• "House of an intellectual worker"
• "Arbor with chickens"
• "Arbor of a bird lover"
• Small house

Publications

• Architects: Paul Mebes u. Paul Emmerich, low-rise buildings on the outskirts of Berlin. In: Bauwelt. Issue 34/1931
• with Fritz Spannagel: 25 summer and residential gazebos at prices from 100 Marks to 3000 Marks. In: Bauwelt. Special issue 1/1932 (5th edition 1934)
• 25 small houses priced from 5,000 to 10,000 marks. In: Bauwelt. Special issue 4 / no year
• 25 beautiful country houses over 20,000 marks. In: Bauwelt. Special issue 9 / no year

literature

• Kerstin Dörhöfer: pioneers in architecture. A building history of the modern age. Wasmuth Verlag, Tübingen 2004, ISBN 3-8030-0639-2 .