Waldfriedhof Dahlem

The forest cemetery in Berlin's Dahlem district of Steglitz -Zehlendorf is on the edge of the forest Grunewald Hüttenweg 47 Created in the years 1931-1933 according to the plans of Albert Brodersen, he is one of the younger Berlin cemeteries. With graves of writers such as Gottfried Benn, composers such as Wolfgang Werner Eisbrenner, the painter Karl Schmidt- Rottluff, the actor OE Hasse, Hans Epskamp or the actor and entertainer Harald Juhnke the Park Cemetery is one of the so-called " celebrities cemeteries ". Due to its dense conifer stand, he is also one of the most beautiful cemeteries in the German capital.

Design as a simple park cemetery

In designing the 75 407 m² of state-owned cemetery integration into the urban forest area was in the form of a Park cemetery in the foreground. Two generous central Spruce avenues intersect and divide the area into four main areas. The graves are geometrically arranged in long rows and tail are mostly among themselves again separated by hedges, so that they lose out on the tree-lined grounds in green. The restrained appearance of the tombs of the design is also owed ​​that does not allow elaborate tombs with their priority horticultural design. Monumental buildings and greater artistic sculptures as on many Berlin's historic cemeteries here are not found.

Another reason for those on a " celebrity cemetery " surprisingly unostentatious and, apart from a few ornaments, also largely ornament free tomb design was in the goal of the tomb reform movement that a more objective dealing with death opposed the bourgeois desire for prestige and had a uniform tomb design goal. This concept also corresponded to the line of the Nazis, who refused requests for the installation of grave figures consistently.

The design for the system created the "Royal Horticultural Director " Albert Brodersen in 1929, the or already in works such as the former botanical garden at the Potsdamer Straße (today's Heinrich-von -Kleist - Park), in the expansion of Victoria Park on the Kreuzberg in designs for the Rehberge Park, the scenic beauty of the city had stressed the highlighting of your many greens. Since 1930 Brodersen died, he experienced neither with the work on the forest cemetery nor its opening in 1933.

Chapel and outbuildings

In the back part of the cemetery is located behind a long oval forecourt the chapel of the cemetery, which was built in the years 1931/1932 by Heinrich Schweitzer. It is a masonry construction in the style of expressive realism, whose facades are yellow plastered and covered at the corners with local stones. The building has a T-shaped floor plan with a small open porch, which is covered by a shed roof. The actual chapel roof represents a saddle roof, which lies on a wooden support structure and puts on the back of the lower extensions. The side facades are punctuated by high rectangular windows of cathedral glass with lead version. In the gable there is also a bell tower. The interior of the chapel has a doubly curved wooden ceiling and an apse with a high pointed arch.

The two low gatehouses and some other ancillary buildings were built in 1932 by Schweitzer. The gatehouses each containing a round-arched arcade, in the northern construction also a flower shop is integrated. The southern gatehouse joins an open hall and the house of the cemetery keeper, in which the administrative and residential spaces are included.

Beige set-in, well-known personalities

(* = Honorary grave of Berlin )

  • Karl Anton (1898-1979), film director, screenwriter and film producer.
  • Carl Heinrich Becker * (1876-1933), orientalist, politician, Prussian minister of culture
  • Elly Beinhorn (1907-2007), aviation pioneer
  • Gottfried Benn * (1886-1956), poet
  • Heinz Berggruen * (1914-2007), art collector
  • Bully Buhlan (1924-1982), singer, pianist, composer, actor
  • Konrad Burdach (1859-1936), German scholar and literary scholar
  • Carl Correns * (1864-1933), botanist and plant geneticist
  • Franz Dischinger * (1887-1953), Civil
  • Käthe Dorsch (1890-1957), Actress ( memorial stone - buried in Bad Saarow- Pieskow )
  • Blandine Ebinger * (1899-1993), actress and chansonniere
  • Karin Eickelmann Tree (1937-2004), actress
  • Wolfgang Werner Eisbrenner (1908-1981), composer and conductor
  • Hans Epskamp (1903-1992), actor
  • Adolf Erman * (1854-1937), Egyptologist
  • Hermann Fehling (1909-1996), architect and university teachers
  • Christian Fenner (1942-2006), political scientist and political scientist
  • Curth Flatow (1920-2011), stage and screenwriter
  • Ernst Fraenkel * (1898-1975), political scientist
  • Ludwig Fulda * (1862-1939), playwright and translator
  • Klaus Gysi (1912-1999), politician
  • Ernst Hartert (1859-1933), zoologist
  • OE Hasse * (1903-1978), theater and film actor, director
  • Heinz Heinrich Hentschke (1895-1970), librettist, actor, director, theater director
  • Hans Herken (1912-2003), pharmacologist
  • Ursula Herwig (1935-1977), actress, voice actress
  • Carl Hofer * (1878-1955), painter, director of the Berlin Academy of Fine Arts
  • Klaus Höhne (1927-2006), actor and voice actor
  • Hans -Günter Hoppe * (1922-2000), politician, city elder, Senator of Finance and Justice, a member of the Berlin House of Representatives and of the German Bundestag
  • Helene Jacobs * (1906-1993), resistance fighter
  • La Jana * (1905-1940), dancer and actress
  • Harald Juhnke * (1929-2005), actor and entertainer
  • Julius Katona (1902-1977), tenor, chamber singers
  • Max Kaus (1891-1977), painter, graphic artist and high school teacher
  • Otto Kermbach * (1882-1960), conductor and composer
  • Hanns Kerrl (1887-1941), Nazi politician
  • Martin Kiessling (1879-1944), architect
  • Peter Kittel Mann (1936-2003), lawyer, politician
  • Josef Paul Kleihues (1933-2004), architect and university teachers
  • Hilde Körber (1906-1969), actress
  • Hans quiet course * (1890-1951), philosopher, physicist and author
  • Löneke Hubert (1926-2011), sculptor
  • Marie Elisabeth Lüders * (1878-1966), politician and women's rights activist
  • Wolfgang Lukschy (1905-1983), stage and film actor, voice actor
  • Friedrich Luft (1911-1990), theater critic
  • Leny Marenbach (1907-1984), actress
  • Arnold Marquis (1921-1990), actor, voice actor
  • Paul Martin (1899-1967), Director
  • Erich difficulty * (1878-1934), poet, publicist, playwright
  • Zenzl difficulty (1884-1962), campaigner for the Munich Soviet Republic at the side of her husband Erich Mühsam
  • Maximilian Müller- Jabusch (1889-1961), journalist
  • Rudolf Nelson * (1878-1960), composer and theater director
  • Eduard Neumann (1903-1985), medievalist, Professor and Rector of the Free University of Berlin
  • Hermann Noack (1895-1958), art and bronze casters
  • Walter A. Noebel (1953-2012), architect and university teachers
  • Richard Perlia (1905-2012), aviation pioneer, a publicist
  • Christian Pfeil * (1889-1965), Chairman of the Berlin Sport Federation (1953-1965)
  • Pniower Otto (1859-1932), literary scholar
  • Kurt Raeck (1903-1981), playwright, actor, theater director, film director and theater director
  • Bernd Rosemeyer * (1909-1938), automobile racing drivers
  • Wolfgang Roth cone * (1919-1980), politician, district mayor ( Zehlendorf )
  • Heinrich Sahm (1877-1939), politician, Mayor of Berlin
  • Wolfgang Schleif (1912-1984), editor, film director, screenwriter
  • Karl Schmidt- Rottluff * (1884-1976), painter and graphic artist
  • Hans Schmiljan * (1901-1961), politician, Senator for Health Care
  • Walther Schreiber * (1884-1958), politician, Mayor of Berlin
  • * Franz Schreker (1878-1934), composer, director of the Berlin Academy of Music
  • John Schultze * (1881-1976), historian
  • Ulrich Wilhelm Graf Schwerin von Schwanfeld * (1902-1944), resistance fighters
  • Kurt Seifert (1903-1950), actor, singer, stage director
  • Gustav Severin (1903-2000), contractor ( coach tours )
  • Renée Sintenis * (1888-1965), sculptor
  • Werner Sombart * (1863-1941), sociologist, economist
  • Camilla Spira (1906-1997), actress
  • Herbert Stass (1919-1999), actor and voice actor
  • Ilse Steppat (1917-1969), actress
  • Willy Stiewe (1900-1971), journalist, local politicians, district mayor ( Zehlendorf )
  • Erwin Stresemann * (1889-1972), zoologist
  • Wolfgang Stresemann * (1904-1998), bandleader, composer, conductor
  • Günter Tembrock (1918-2011), zoologist
  • Heinrich Tessenowstraße * (1876-1950), architect
  • Ilse Trautschold (1906-1991), actress and comedienne
  • Manfred porpoises (1936-1990), actor
  • Alfred Vohrer (1914-1986), Film Director
  • Fritz Arno Wagner (1884-1958), cinematographer
  • William Wauer * (1866-1962), sculptor, film director
  • If Sybil (1924-2007), actress and dancer
  • Gerhart von Westerman * (1894-1963), composer, director, writer on music
  • Theodor Wiegand * (1864-1936), archaeologist
  • Manfred Wockel (1936-1994), businessman, publisher
  • John Würtz * (1875-1958), founder of the Special Education
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