few days ago i went to see Die Nibelungen at the Schaubuehne in Berlin (lower pic). from my point of view, the production was a bit too abstract to describe a germanic heroic saga but the theater building, originally built as Woga-Komplex and Universum-Kino(1925-1931) by Erich Mendelsohn, was also worth a visit. Erich Mendelsohn (1887 - 1953) was a german architect , known for his expressionist architecture in the 1920s, as well as for developing a dynamic functionalism in his projects for department stores and cinemas. he was studying architecture at TU in Berlin and graduated in Munich. in 1912 he opened his own firm in Munich but after the first world war he moved to Berlin. in 1924 he founded together with Ludwig Mies van der Rohe ad Walter Gropius the progressive architectural group known as Der Ring (strange, Die Nibelungen have also something to do with a ring...). During the Weimar republic, Mendelsohn was very successful both in his work and financially. when the nazi party came to power in Germany in 1933, Mendelsohn moved to England and worked at the same time in Palestine. in 1935 he opened a bureau in Jerusalem, where he greatly influenced the local Jerusalem International Style. in 1941 Mendelsohn moved to the US. some of his famous buildings: Einsteinturm, Mossehaus, Schocken department store - Germany. Weizmann hause (upper pic.), Schocken library, Hadassah Mt. Scopus, Anglo-Palestine bank - in Israel
few days ago i went to see Die Nibelungen at the Schaubuehne in Berlin (lower pic). from my point of view, the production was a bit too abstract to describe a germanic heroic saga but the theater building, originally built as Woga-Komplex and Universum-Kino(1925-1931) by Erich Mendelsohn, was also worth a visit. Erich Mendelsohn (1887 - 1953) was a german architect , known for his expressionist architecture in the 1920s, as well as for developing a dynamic functionalism in his projects for department stores and cinemas. he was studying architecture at TU in Berlin and graduated in Munich. in 1912 he opened his own firm in Munich but after the first world war he moved to Berlin. in 1924 he founded together with Ludwig Mies van der Rohe ad Walter Gropius the progressive architectural group known as Der Ring (strange, Die Nibelungen have also something to do with a ring...). During the Weimar republic, Mendelsohn was very successful both in his work and financially. when the nazi party came to power in Germany in 1933, Mendelsohn moved to England and worked at the same time in Palestine. in 1935 he opened a bureau in Jerusalem, where he greatly influenced the local Jerusalem International Style. in 1941 Mendelsohn moved to the US. some of his famous buildings: Einsteinturm, Mossehaus, Schocken department store - Germany. Weizmann hause (upper pic.), Schocken library, Hadassah Mt. Scopus, Anglo-Palestine bank - in Israel
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