Villa Magdalena K.
Villa Magdalena K. is a queer - feminist living and workshop project for collective and self-determined living and working in Hamburg - St. Pauli .
history
After the occupation of the building in need of renovation and which had been vacant for several years in Bernstorffstrasse 160a in Hamburg on November 11, 1989, it was handed over on December 12, 1989 following a resolution by the district assembly. In an article from Zeit Online on July 14, 2015, Anke Schwarzer wrote retrospectively about the mood and situation in this district:
“About 30 years ago, the then owner, SAGA, planned to demolish the old red brick houses. Some residents did not want to accept that, and they gradually occupied part of the building complex. With success: the city acquired the listed building complex and let the protesters live in it. "
As part of the "Repair program for old buildings to create inexpensive living space" (ABB program), which has existed since 1984, buildings in Hamburg were repaired at the end of the 1980s / beginning of the 1990s. The ABB program was intended to enable residents and future tenants to take part in the maintenance measures, especially in the urban housing stock, by contributing self-help. The program stipulated that the “self-helpers” from the renovation phase managed the houses in self-administration after the construction work was completed. The administrative function between the FHH as the owner and the tenants, who had come together in associations, was to be taken over by Johann Daniel Lawaetz -Stadtentwicklungs GmbH (today by its legal successor Lawaetz-Service GmbH).
The house on Bernstorffstrasse was renovated accordingly with craftswomen, a lot of personal work and ecologically sensitive, for example with rainwater use, facade greening , solar collectors and clay stoves. In July 1993 the repair of the house and thus the women's construction site was completed. Villa Magdalena K. has been a self-administered non-profit association on St. Pauli in Hamburg since 1990 .
Structure, culture and workshop
In addition to the living rooms, there is a workshop for letterpress and screen printing as well as a graphics room as an event room that can be used by the public. An artist in residence scholarship in the form of a guest studio with workshop use is frequented by international artists and accompanied by events and presentations. The basic idea of the project is to create a feminist, autonomous and changeable place for people of any gender identity.
Further information and objectives
In addition to a detailed presentation of the building, the conversions and the restructuring, Ruth Becker wrote a paragraph on the definition of goals after a research project by the spatial planning faculty at the University of Düsseldorf:
“The aim was to create a self-determined space for women to enable an alternative way of life to the traditional nuclear family and to counteract the gender-specific role distribution and exclusion of women in mixed living and work projects. In addition, the preparation, planning, design, work and construction process was understood as a central aspect in the development of women-specific forms of living and living. The self-help therefore not only served to save costs, but is part of the emancipatory process intended with the housing project. "
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Villa Magdalena K. In: Women living projects - a_story, a_guide, a_documentation. Prof'in i. R. Dr. Ruth Becker, Faculty of Spatial Planning, University of Dortmund, 2009, accessed on July 20, 2018 .
Coordinates: 53 ° 33 ′ 33 " N , 9 ° 57 ′ 35.9" E