SCHWER BELASTUNGS KÖRPER
6/21/2023, 7 PM
- Location:
Pariser Platz, Plenary Hall - Date:
6/21/2023 - Time:
7 PM - Save appointment
The Schwerbelastungskörper, or “heavy load-exerting body”, is a gigantic concrete cylinder in Berlin’s Tempelhof district that was planned and built in 1941 out of Zylinder Stahlbeton to measure the load-bearing capability of the ground for construction purposes. The aim was to simulate the weight of one of the monumental triumphal arches planned by the Nazis, the so-called “Bauwerk T”, or T-structure. Ingo Schulze, Yoko Tawada and Cécile Wajsbrot take three individual perspectives in approaching the 12,000-tonne monument, which is the only relic that bears witness to the planned North-South-axis of the never-implemented project to transform Berlin into the “World Capital Germania”.
Accompanying programme to the POWER SPACE VIOLENCE. Planning and Building under National Socialism exhibition.
With Ingo Schulze, Yoko Tawada and Cécile Wajsbrot
Welcome: Kerstin Hensel
In German
€ 6/4