Haus Schwarzenberg

Haus Schwarzenberg

Address Rosenthaler Straße 39, Berlin

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Since the second half of the 19th century, the house can look back on an interesting and eventful history of construction and use: factory building, living quarters, DEFA headquarters, brush workshop with hiding place of a Jewish family - these are only some of the past stations of Haus Schwarzenberg. It is also a constituent part of the Spandauer Vorstadt area monument.

Today, the significance of the house can be seen above all in its distinction from its neighborhood. Between Starbucks and upscale boutiques, there is still a place where small tradespeople, art and culture makers can work and survive. Behind this is the Schwarzenberg e.V. association, which provides them with space to work and is dedicated to them. It is also thanks to this association that the house, which was left to decay at the time of the fall of the Berlin Wall, was saved and made usable. Since the mid-1990s, the association has laid the foundations for the current appearance and the characteristic mixed use of Haus Schwarzenberg by investing its own financial resources and a great deal of time and energy. In 2005, the house, which is now a listed building, was purchased at auction with funds from the federal government and the Lotto Foundation. The current concept of use as well as the appearance of the house shall continue to exist.

The house with the number 39 of the Rosenthaler Straße stands out not only optically strongly from the neighboring building ensembles of the Hackeschen Höfe and Rosenhöfe: In the middle of the center of commerce and tourist kitsch, there is a place that has preserved its authentic character in two respects: As a testimony to German history as well as a lively place of international creative subculture. Already in the narrow passage to the first courtyard, the visitor discovers the first traces of urban art and street art artists on the crumbling facade, who are attracted by the characteristic texture of the walls and facades. The Schwarzenberg e.V. association runs neurotitan gallery and store in the back building - a well-known address for anyone interested in painting, illustration, comics and urban art away from the mainstream. The audience of the house is heterogeneous and international: In addition to nightly program cinema and club visitors, many people interested in art and culture are attracted to the house, in the mornings it is mainly school classes, youth and tourist groups who visit the permanent exhibitions located in the house. They all enjoy the lively character of the courtyards guarded by metal creatures. In this way, the various institutions of the house benefit from each other by each opening up a new, atypical audience to the others.

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