Hansaviertel Berlin

Hansaviertel Berlin

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Händelallee 61
J. Kaiser – G. Bodammer

Bungalows
Facade from Southeast Private archive Dieter Hoffmann-Axthelm
View North and East Estate Gunter Bodammer
Situation in the low-rise construction
View from Händelallee Private archive Dieter Hoffmann-Axthelm
Garden Private archive Dieter Hoffmann-Axthelm

[ Not part of Interbau ]

Händelallee 61 is also not one of the official Interbau buildings. The Berlin architects Bodammer and Bernd erected this building in 1960 in place of a design by the firm Ruegenberg/von Möllendorff. They had planned three buildings, one of which was built on the southern corner. To complete the development, the rest of the plot was quickly filled after the exhibition. In the meantime the house – just like house Kirsten II – has been listed as part of the overall complex.

Gunter Bodammer

* 1922 in Kirchmöser/Havel
† 2000 in Berlin

  • apprenticeship as a bricklayer
  • studied in Berlin at the Bauschule Leinestraße
  • employed by one or two construction companies
  • worked in the Rahn office
  • 1958 foundation of the Bodammer & Berndt office
  • from circa 1962 sole owner of the architectural office
  • 1994 partnership with son Axel Bodammer
  • various construction management jobs
  • in the new development area Britz/Buckow/Rudow (BBR), in the Märkisches Viertel (MV), in Eckernförde for the Bundeswehr MUWS in conjunction with the office Geber + Risse for approx. 15 years
  • from 1961 worked in Berlin-Reinickendorf and Berlin-Wedding for GeSoBau, degewo, Gruppe Nord

Josef Kaiser

* 1910 in Celje, Slovenia (Austria-Hungary)
† 1991 in Altenberg, Thuringia

  • 1929–35 studied at the German Technical University, Prague
  • 1935–40 Ernst Flemming and Otto Kohtz architectural offices in Weimar and Berlin as well as in the project planning office of the German Labour Front under Schulte-Frohlinde, Berlin
  • 1938 Joined the NSDAP (National Socialist German Workers’ Party)
  • 1941–45 Head of Basic Conceptual Planning at the German Academy for Housing, Berlin
  • 1945 illness
  • 1946 studied of singing at the Musik-Hochschule, Dresden
  • 1948 tenor at the Theater am Nollendorfplatz, Berlin
  • 1950–55 worked at the German Building Academy in the Master Workshop II of Hanns Hopp, Berlin Chief Architect for the construction of Stalinstadt Type proposals for public buildings, including the film theatre “Kosmos” (draft idea 1956, built 1962)
  • 1956–58 residential buildings in Mannheim and Essen
  • from 1958 worked on the VEB Berlin project
  • 1962 Director of the design collective for the ensemble between Strausberger Platz and Alexanderplatz on Karl-Marx-Allee in Berlin
  • 1963 Hotel “Berolina” and film theater “International”
  • 1964 Restaurant “Moscow”
  • 1967 Ministry of Foreign Affairs
  • 1969 Professor of General Structural Engineering at the University of Architecture and Civil Engineering, Weimar, Germany
  • 1970 Centrum department store, Alexanderplatz