Social change - The Scheunenviertel 100 years ago to today

Social change - The Scheunenviertel 100 years ago to today

The construction of the theater Volksbühne 1913 at the gates of the medieval town gave the neglected poor quarter Scheunenviertel a new urban significance. The new building for workers' culture moved this quarter close to the more significant, economically vibrant life around the still disordered Alexanderplatz. With the beginning of the Weimar Republic it was necessary to design the inner city east. From here, the competition delivered new architectural images for the growing city in 1929, Peter Behrens and Hans Poelzig realized clear signs. We are wandering through these contemporary testimonies along other recent interventions in international understanding of architecture since the 1960s, in which housing and management are still showing and transforming themselves in metropolitan fashion.

in cooperation with the Bauhaus Archive / Museum of Design

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Pass By: Volksbuhne Berlin, Rosa Luxemburg Platz, 10178 Berlin Germany

On a voyage of discovery through the Scheunenviertel and the development from 1913 - The construction of the Volksbühne theater on the outskirts of the then medieval town gave the neglected poor quarters a new urban significance.