Program - Center for German Studies

Mnemonic Topography
Architecture and Formation of German Memories
Study trip to Berlin
13-20 May 2012
13.5 Sunday – 1st day
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10:30 Alte Nationalgalerie
Friedrich August Stüler, 1867-76; restoration – 1998-2001
19th century German Romanticism; The Exhibition Gerhard Richter: October 18, 1977
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14:00 Neue Nationalgalerie
14:00-15:00 Guided tour in the Exhibition Gerhard Richter: Panorama
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16:00 The Schloss – Humboldt Forum
Prof. Horst Bredekamp, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Meeting at the entrance to the HumboldtUniversität, Unter den Linden)
14.5 Monday – 2nd day
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10:00 Alexanderplatz
Haus des Lehrers and Kongresshalle: Hermann Henselmann, Jörg Streitparth and Bernhard Geyer,
1961-64; Fernsehturm: Hermann Henselmann and Jörg Streitparth, 1965-69
Sibrand Matthijs de Boer: Alexanderplatz and Stalinallee: Construction and Renovation under the
Communist Regime
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12:00 West Berlin‘s „Kulturmeile“
Philharmonie: Hans Scharoun, 1956-63
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin: Hans Scharoun and Edgar Wisniewski, 1964-78
Elissa Mailänder Koslov: Kulturmeile – Architecture and its Relation to the Urban Cultural Layout of
West Berlin in the 60's and 70's
12:30-13:30 Guided tour in the Philharmonie
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15:00 Reichstag
Paul Wallot, 1884-94; restoration – restoration, 1961-64; renovation – Lord Norman Foster, 1993-99
Drorit Zilberberg: Norman Foster's Renovation of the Reichstag and the History of the Building
15:30-16:00 Guided tour in the Bundestag Library (Marie-Elisabeth-Lüders-Haus)
Stephan Braunfels, 1999-2003
Meeting with Rüdiger Kruse (CDU/CSU)
17:00-18:30 Guided tour in the Reichstag
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19:00 Bundeskanzleramt
Axel Schultes and Charlotte Frank, 1994-2001
Victor Gurevich: Bundeskanzleramt: Architecture, Symbolism and their Connection to the Spreebogen
Plan
15.5 Tuesday – 3rd day
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10:00 Museumsinsel and Neues Museum
Friedrich August Stüler, 1843-55; David Chipperfield, 1997-2009
10:00-12:00 Guided tour in the Neues Museum (The renovation of the Museuminsel and its layout,
the renovation of the Neues Museum, Tel al-Amarna Collection]
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14:00 Karl Friedrich Schinkel: Neue Wache and Gendarmenmarkt
Neue Wache: Karl Friedrich Schinkel, 1816-18
Schauspielhaus: Karl Friedrich Schinkel, 1818-21; reconstruction: 1979-84
Französischer Dom and Deutscher Dom: 1701-05; restoration and dome – Carl von Gontard, 1785;
reconstruction – 1979-96
Omri Ben-Yehuda: Architecture of Karl Friedrich Schinkel and German Neoclassicism; Functions of the
Neue Wache over Different Periods
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15:30 Friedrichstraße and the Passages
Quartier 205: Oswald Mathias Ungers, 1991-96
Quartier 206: Pei, Cobb, Freed & Partners, 1991-96
Quartier 207 – Galeries Lafayette: Jean Nouvel, Emmanuel Cattani & Associates, 1991-96
Joanna Karwecka: The Renovation of Friedrichstraße Passagen in the 1990’s vis-à-vis the Street’s
History
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17:00 Meeting in Berliner DAAD Büro
16.5 Wednesday – 4th day
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09:30 Karl Friedrich Schinkel: Friedrichswerdersche Kirche and Bauakademie
Friedrichswerdersche Kirche: Karl Friedrich Schinkel, 1824-31
Bauakademie: Karl Friedrich Schinkel, 1831-36
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10:00 Reichsbank – Auswärtiges Amt
Heinrich Wolff, 1934-40; extension – Thomas Müller and Ivan Reimann. 1997-99
Jennifer Gramer: Nazi Reichsbank and its Renovation and Rededication as German Foreign Ministry
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11:00 Humboldt Box
Stadtschloss: Andreas Schlüter, 1698-1713; dome – Friedrich Stüler, 1845-53; demolition – 1950
Palast der Republik: Heinz Graffunder & Karl Ernst Swora, 1973-76; demolition – 2006-08
Humboldt Forum: Ffrancesco Stella, 2010-2019
Humboldt Box: KSV Krüger Schuberth Vandreike, 2011
Daria Klishevich: Berliner Stadtschloss – its Architectural Stages over Time: Formation of Memory and
Amnesia
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14:00 Forum Fridericianum and Bebelplatz
Sankt Hedwig Kathedrale: Jean-Laurant Le Geay, 1747-73
Staatsoper: Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdrorff, 1741-43; rebuilding – Carl Ferdinand Langhans,
1843-44; reconstruction – 1955
Prince Heinrich Palace: Johann Boumann, 1748-66, Humboldt Universität since 1810
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin: Georg Christian Unger, 1775-80
Book Burning Memorial: Micha Ullman, 1995
Jan Rutka: Friedrich the Great and the Formation of Berlin as the Prussian Capital
Moran Pearl: Micha Ullman's Book Burning Memorial
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15:30 Zeughaus – Deutsches Historisches Museum
Andreas Schlüter, 1695-1730; extension and renovation – I.M. Pei, 1998-2003
Lee Christian Kuhnle: Zeughaus - Its Renovation and Rededication as German Historical Museum
16:30-17:30 Guided tour in the Exhibition Friedrich the Great: Respected, Revered, Reviled
17.5 Thursday – 5th day
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09:30 Potsdamer Platz
Master Plan – Heinz Hilmer and Christoph Sattler
Sony Sector – Helmut Jahn; Daimler Benz Sector Master Plan – Renzo Piano
Yoonhee Lee: Potsdamer Platz: Rebuilding after the Reunification vis-à-vis its Urban Role during the
20's
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10:30 Neue Nationalgalerie
Mies van der Rohe, 1965-68
Christy Ann Wahl: Mies van der Rohe's Neue Nationalgalerie and its Visual and Conceptual Relation to
Modernist Pre-War Architecture
The exhibition Divided Heaven: 1945 – 1968
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14:30 Topography of Terror
Ursula Wilms, 2010
Ann-Kristin Glöckner: Topography of Terror: Museological Approach and Preservation of the "Real"
Place
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15:30 Memorial for the Murdered Jews of Europe
Peter Eisenman, 2003-04
Katie Digan: Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe: Art and Politics as a Reflection of Post
Reunification Mnemonic Tendencies
Alison Wood: Migrants and Immigrants in Berlin: Contemporary Migration to Berlin in Comparison to
Previous Periods
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17:00 Pariser Platz and Brandenburger Tor
Carl Gotthard Langhans, 1788-91; Quadriga – Johann Gottfried Schadow, 1793; remodelling – Karl
Friedrich Schinkel, 1814; renovation – 1958; renovation – 1991
Noga Stiassny: Brandenburger Tor and its Symbolic Formations and Reformations
18.5 Friday – 6th day
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10:30 Freie Universität
10:30-11:30 Guided tour through the Freie Universität
11:30-12:30 Meeting with Prof. Lücke and project staff: "Stadtgeschichte als Migrationsgeschichte:
Berliner Orte der Erinnerung"
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13:30 Drive through Dahlem, Kurfürstendamm and Fehrbelliner Platz
Woga Buildings at Lehniner Platz: Erich Mendelsohn, 1926-31
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14:00 Schöneberg Archiv und Jugend Museum
Meeting with Petra Zwaka, Manager
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16:00 Bayrischer Platz Memorial
Renata Stih and Frieder Schnock, 1992-93
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17:30 The Liberal Synagogue at Lindenstraße Memorial
Micha Ullmann, Zvi Hecker and Eyal Weizmann, 1997
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17:45 Axel Springer Haus
Stephan Balkenhol, Balancing Act, 2009
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18:00 The Jewish Museum
Daniel Liebeskind, 1989-99
Andrea Claudia Valente: Jewish Museum: Architecture as the Encapsulation of an Idea
19.5 Saturday – 7th day
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10:00 The „Jewish Quarter“ in Berlin Mitte
Neue Synagoge: Eduard Knoblauch, 1859-66; main hall demolition – 1958; restoration as Centrum
Judaicum – Brenard Leisering, 1988-90
Stolpersteine: Gunter Demnig, 1996 onwards
„The Missing House“ (Große Hamburger Straße 16-17): Christian Boltanski, 1990
Hackesche Höfe
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11:30 Hamburger Bahnhof
Friedrich Neuhaus, 1846-47; renovation – Josef Paul Kleihues, 1990-96
The art of Joseph Beuys; Contemporary art
20.5 Sunday – 8th day
Free day
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