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Berlin: Hansaviertelich habe jahrelang in ganz in der Nähe des Hansaviertels gewohnt - in 'Süd-Moabit' - in insgesamt
drei verschiedenen Wohnungen. Damals kam ich ziemlich regelmäßig am Hansaviertel vorbei:
eine Post, eine Bibliothek, einige Lädchen, Kioske und Fachgeschäfte sowie das Grips-Theater und natürlich der berühmt berüchtigte U-Bahnhof Hansaplatz, der
der U-Bahnhof in Süd-Moabit ist, liegen so ziemlich in der Mitte
des Hansaviertels
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Some of Architecture's Greatest Hits of the fifties, sixies and seventies can
be found here nowadays, nicely arranged around the Hansaplatz, which is also a
cute little shopping area and home of the great GRIPS-Theater.
After the old Hansaviertel had been destroyed during the second world war almost
completely, the new Hansaviertel was built between 1953 and 1972 for the architecture
exhibition/fair "Interbau". You can find works of the world's greatest
architects from that time, such as Alvar Aalto, Eugène Beaudouin, Luciano
Baldessari, Werner Düttmann, Egon Eiermann, Walter Gropius, Bruno Grimmek,
Oscar Niemeyer and Max Taut (see also Berliner
Bezirkslexikon).
If you ask tourist guides about it, they might tell you, that the Hansaviertel
is considered to be the West-Berlin counterpart of the East-Berlin Stalinallee
- which i doupt.
Once a year the Hansaviertel, part of the Tiergarten, used to be occupied by the
Love Parade, this worldfamous annual techno music event (see also my
love TV). Nowadays this is not the case any more - so no low budget campers
put up their tents in the well designed gardens, no more caravan crowds on the
also well designed parking lots, no more screaming girls or peeing "men".
Just silence.
PS:: Yes, this is also the subway station where Christiane F. and some of her
friends used to meet... Some pictures
and texts can be found from here.
here's
some site map of that area::
(click will open large picture in extra window ~484 kB)
and here's again some selected pictures::
...it's rather easy to guess in what time period this area was built...
also the birds seemed to be a bit irritated by the density of windows and screens.
So warning signs had to be put up...
...the GRIPS Theater's "head" is looking over the Hansaplatz's roof...
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