Fritz Bornemann

Fritz Bornemann ( born February 12, 1912 in Berlin, † May 28, 2007 ) was a German architect of post-war modernism with outstanding national importance in Berlin.

Life

Bornemann studied architecture at the Technical University Berlin. After graduating in 1936, he was an assistant for facilities management at the Städtische Oper Berlin -Charlottenburg from 1945 and site manager for the city of Berlin. Since the year 1950, he was a self-employed architect and worked as such especially in Berlin. So come the designs for the America Memorial Library (1951-1955, together with Willy Kreuer ), the German Opera Berlin (1956-1961), the theater of the Freie Volksbühne (1961-1963) and for the world as " Dahlem model " celebrated Museum staging in Dahlem Museums (1966-1972) his hand. In particular, the dramatic staging Museum manufactured exclusively with artificial light of Indian Art, the Museum of Islamic Art and the Pacific Division of the Berlin Ethnological Museum attracted attention through the extensive dematerialization of objects. There were some of the earliest purely passing on aesthetic consideration productions of Non-European art. He also designed the headquarters of Commerzbank in Berlin ( 1969-1974 ). In 1972 in Berlin-Wedding Thank the Church.

For the 1970 World Exhibition in Osaka (Japan), he designed the German pavilion. Here Bornemann renounced largely to great architectural gestures and sank the exhibit space in the underground; a spherical auditorium served the multimedia presentation current trends of electronic music.

Later, among other things, nor the extension to the Town Hall Wedding in Berlin and the University Library were added in Bonn. He has never built houses.

Little known is his multimedia work. He designed several exhibitions, including atom ( 1953) or Farmer Smith ( 1957). The Osaka pavilion crowned this work.

Bornemann's architecture was and is the subject of a fierce dispute over the opinion of modernity in the 1950s and 1960s. The critics speak of cold or severe architecture and evaluate the buildings with phrases like elegance in exposed aggregate concrete from. His supporters see in his works of modern architecture patterns, especially of modern theater architecture. The functionality of his buildings was also recognized by the critics, because visitors could very well follow the action on stage from all seats and understand.

A frequently occurring element of its architecture are large, cubic body that convey by some distance to the earth, an impression of floating and the Light. An item that appeared in the Modern especially by the architect Le Corbusier.

Fritz Bornemann was over 16 years Chairman of the Association of German Architects.

Competition participation

• Imperial Palace in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 3rd prize (1948 )
• City Theater Gelsenkirchen, 2nd prize (1953 )
• City Theater Bonn, 2nd prize (1960 )
• Schauspielhaus Hannover (1964 )

Awards

• Honorary member of the Association of German Architects