Guided Tour 2009
Architectural Tours 2009
We offer three architectural tours, in cooperation with Jewish Culture Days, to buildings by
Jewish architects in Berlin, August 30 – September 6, 2009.
The tours are conducted in German, some English translation may be available:
Sunday, August 30th, 3 p.m.
Urban Buildings
Tour with Dr. Ulrike Offenberg, historian, and Markus Hawlik, photographer
Meeting point: in front of Centrum Judaicum, Oranienburger Straße 28-30
Saturday, September 5th, 3 p.m.
Berlin’s Modernist Housing Developments and Public Green Space
Tour with Claudia Marcy, art historian
Meeting point: in front of Centrum Judaicum, Oranienburger Straße 28-30
Sunday, 6. September 6th, 3 p.m.
Villas and Country Houses in Southwest Berlin
Tour with Dr. Günter Schlusche, architect and urban planer
Meeting point: in front of Centrum Judaicum, Oranienburger Straße 28-30
Their buildings distinguish the cityscape of Berlin, but their names – with a few prominent exceptions –
are still little known. More than 300 Jewish architects practiced in Berlin before the Nazis prohibited
this in 1933. A few architects were then able to emigrate, but many were murdered in concentration
camps. As dedicated proponents of Modernist architecture, they built in the style of Neue Sachlichkeit
[New Objectivity] and the Bauhaus. On these guided tours, specially planned for the Jewish Culture
Days, you are invited to discover aspects of this diverse architectural inheritance and become
acquainted with the architects’ life stories.
Price: 10 Euro / 8 Euro reduced, capacity limited.
Central Ticket : 01805.570000
Tickets available at all major ticket agencies as well at the bookstore Literaturhandlung, Joachimstaler
Str. 13.
Online reservations at Jüdische Kulturtage oder eventim
We invite you to the Association’s guided architectural tour for the Tag des offenen Denkmals – Heritage Open Day 2009:
The White City and its Green Space – UNESCO World Heritage Site
Guide Dr. Günter Schlusche
Sunday, September 13th, 2 p.m.
meeting point: intersection of Aroser Allee / Emmentaler Straße, Berlin-Reinickendorf
maximum 30 persons, preregistration necessary by September 11th
by mail to Markus Hawlik (markushawlik@t-online.de)
public transport: U-Bahnhof Residenzstr. (U8), Bus 322
The “White City” housing estate was built 1929-31 by architects Rudolf Salvisberg, Wilhelm Büning
and Bruno Ahrends. The Jewish landscape architect Ludwig Lesser was commissioned to design
the area enclosed by the rows of three-to-five storey flats. Instead of dividing the open space into the
customary separate gardens, Lesser wanted the green space to serve a social function, to be used as
a commons for leisure activities and not just for taking walks. The tour will focus both on the green
space and the architecture of the housing development.