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It is not to be seized: It is not to seize began before twenty
years haven-guessed/advised over Stefan a
Wewerka in the FAZ magazine. There it described as always
volatile, which finds its home place in the
railway, behind Grimassen, setting and strong words hides
itself. Its furniture and articles of clothing were
located to center of the 80's in the center of international
perception, radiated the pavilion on documenta
VIII., designated after it. In the meantime it is more calmly
become around that soon 78-Jhrigen, only it
works still impetuously like a small boy.
Still regard its flat steel bars inken, awake eyes the
environment, flow that seeing into the brain turns and
echot as some sharp comment. , He says all rubbish, if
forinstance the speech comes on the center of
Berlin, and it entfhrt: The whole Friedrichstrasse, that Paris
place, so a bad province shit - to place such
a thing inconsequential there! Really badly!
In innumerable fields of work Wewerka was active in the past
sixty years: as Performer, furniture designer,
sculptor, Grafi more ker, mode creator, poet, actor. Studied it
certainly architecture, from 1946 to 1951 at
the university of the arts in Berlin. Already at that time
trusting unorthodox resolutions, he did without the
academic conclusion. I stopped. My teacher max thaws said to me:
Congratulate!That was the most
correct, which you want with a diploma? They know, how it goes.
`
We sit before Wewerkas master restaurant Stella di Mare in the
citizen s of Berlin UHL and road, where
he lives for over forty years. It smokes briskly cigarettes,
schkert told with the Wirtin, by its conditions for
the Danish company Montana on the last furniture fair in
Copenhagen, whom it wants to again realize in
Tokyo. He notices everyone, which passes: The Russian wife of
the neighbour, the Galeristen, which sits
down spontaneously to us. Occasionally Mrs. Wewerka - genuine Kl
- turns her purchases off and
disappears again. It makes the impression, it is grown up, so
daily works the gestures here and views,
which it exchanges with the Passanten. Actually however Wewerka
in its life usually elsewhere was, and
still he seems at any time ready to pack its bag and go to the
next place, to explore to assume whose
characteristics, the dialect - its large talent -, to look for
each other a dwelling - and briefly before it
threatens to become one from the native ones to to go again.
Unrest into an initiative lay Stefan Wewerka umzumnzen already
early. Already in the second academic
year at the academy it started the first project with its fellow
student Werner intoxication: Student
dwellings. Personally they removal two part-destroyed school
building on the area today's citizens of Berlin
of the student village Eichkamp. The walls stood, the substance
were okay , describe Wewerka. Out
pride halls `, that were concrete elements, drew in them covers
into the high classrooms, established
cabinet walls from cheap wooden plates, inserted clothes and
wash basins, installed a sill plate at the
window and a ladder highly to the Schlafkoje. The stools had
geklaut it from the school. We built 28
dwellings. That was mad.
(falta un prrafo aqu)
The favour at the rheinischen temper let Wewerka pull 1954 to
Cologne. On the search for work heknocked on the office of William
Riphahn. Where you come, my boy? Wewerka reflects konversation
in
broad Klsch: from Berlin. `ah, from Berlin. How is the Scharoun?
`Riphahn showed it then the model of
the opera house. Impudent as I was, said I Mr. professor
Riphahn, whom you nevertheless thus do not
want to build. That is not Egypt in Cologne, fits. `Word by
word! Its wife stepped to it and said to her man:
Haste you belongs, what the boy said? I believe, that am right.
`
Instead of to a father figure, which was Riphahn at that time
for many young architects, it struck Wewerka
into the office of the only little older Rudolf Schilling.It
sketched there two houses for the Cologne city
center, helped together with Ludwig Leo in the meantime to the
colleague Oswald Mathias Ungers with a
competition. We were always hungry , remember it.
To it it did not concern to radiate in the gloss of famous
architects and have themselves their authority toadd. In the
opposite: In its personal identification of architecture it
participated since 1953 in the
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conferences of the CIAM, the combination of the oldfront of
modern architecture under the auspice of Le
Corbusier. Together with young colleagues from other countries -
they educated the team X in the
consequence - it analyzed critically the principles of the
fathers. A student, who wants to leave the
school, it wrote later, should rather humans with a conception
be, rather a search than someone, which
is safe of its thing.
Wewerka did not present any restrictions to the search. In the
following years it removed from practice in
the architect's office and dedicated themselves in designs and
models for the earth architectures , how it
called the things developed from the topography. They were
located in the center of its first exhibition
1958 in Vienna and work like visionary an escape toward center
of the globe. It in addition, megalomane
aboveground structures outlined simultaneous - and painted. ,
He, the son of the sculptor Rudolf
Wewerka, explains the art is my origin. I make these things
without to think.
Its drafts and artistic work veschrnkten themselves
increasingly, also the places: Cologne, Berlin, Vienna,
only knappe the money did not increase. 1961 it pulled with its
wife to Paris and worked one year long in
the office of Georges Candilis and Shadrach Woods, which it
could do from the team X. The director of
building of senates at that time Werner Dttmann was it, which
lured him from there back to Berlin.
Humans, Wewerka , copy Wewerka the intonation of the
charismatischen colleague, come to Berlin, Ineed each man. Wewerka
broke the tents off in the French capital and returned to Berlin.
Today it
regrets, without return ticket to have driven. Only once nothing
ran there, and my family and me was
completely dirty. In Berlin nobody waited for it, on the
contrary the colleagues stichelten: That built still
nothing.
Possibly Wewerkas further life, he lets which happen before the
Stella di Mare in Berlin Wilmersdorf in
such a way to maintenance SAM revue, would have gone into
another direction, it it not in one winter
evening into the carcass of the Philharmonic Concert Halls would
not have driven. While it through-
measured the raw concrete structure in dawning light and
Schneetreiben, a Volkswagen schepperte past,
continued and a man with Basque cap stepped out. Scharoun! That
was the saving angel! I am hang -
driven on the next morning into its studio and equal to Trade
Union of German Employees-remained.
Well three years worked he at Scharoun in the Charlottenburger
draft office, a kind father son relationship
, although or perhaps straight because their views differed
clearly from architecture. Scharoun granted
sufficient free space to Wewerka. He took part in competitions,
analyzed for the senate the citizen of Berlin
building of settlements, sketched the Reinickendorfer settlement
earlyon : strict, parallel lines, between
which it platziert sent the necessary urban infrastructure and
public areas.
Wewerka was nearly 37 years old, as it on switching of Woods to
the Washington University in pc. Louis
was invited. He, that had defamed the academic consecrations,
taught now as a guest professor
Architektur. After one year, he tells, offered the university to
him a ten-annual contract. I thought of my
projects in Berlin and hesitated. Today Wewerka would accept the
offer. We would have had thirteen
hundreds dollar each month. That was a heap money! To the
parting Wewerka formulated its position in aletter addressed to the
students:A school of architecture cannot be a form factory, it must
a place be,
where humans fight for the truth identification. The truth does
not permit compromises, it demands
independence.
Its personal self-sufficiency retained itself Wewerka by the
unbekmmerten change between architecture
and art. Back from the USA, he sketched housing developments for
competitions and dedicated
themselves to chair sculptures again, with which he had already
begun 1961. I destroyed boring chairs
and laugh the individual parts to new ones built up, he, however
her was i.e. not possessionable wrongly.
Like the chairs also its designs bring the Sehgewohnheiten into
an inclination. With the shifted relief of a
Ledoux front, to a distorted shop front or dancing appearing
furniture brings Wewerka, the artist, the used
from the equilibrium and provides its own sphere.
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The things eigensinnig to operate, thus he had to offend in the
everyday life. Its last job as an architect
was in Aachen, where it was active as a guest lecturer. On the
presentation of a planned extension of the
TH Aachen a Ministerialdirigent said of the government , here
purges to Wewerka there in the
Dsseldorfer tongue impact, can I nothing at all with begin,
which you frittered away there. Wewerka
erbot itself as saving advisors, was engaged and worked for one
year within a planning team at the draft.
The office manager meant nevertheless sometime: You come always
too late. `And: You remain already
times three days away. `knowledge you `, I answered, I must also
still which for me make. `Nevertheless
nothing at all did not understand. In the meantime Wewerkas had
made pictures and sculptures
sensation. Single exhibitions in Duesseldorf, Munich and
elsewhere narrowed its architectural vein, it even
as the professor to the professional school for art and Design
in Cologne were appointed - for painting.
Increasingly the listener in the restaurant dizzy before told
life abundance became. Alone the
characteristic abilities of Wewerka offer a stop in telling
rank: Observing, acquiring and provoking.Exactly it
used these talents also, when it began in the middle of the
seventies to convert with the furniture
manufacturer TECTA of drafts for usable pieces. Some see in its
M1 one democratic table , other pure
art, Wewerka however mean to me say the people: Your M 1 is a
sculpture. That is a completely normal
table, which looks only differently, which gives another
grouping. With the table and the chair B 1 the
break-through succeeded to it as a furniture designer. Straight
one or to the sides turned, on arm
teachings rested or against the broad back ajar, the chair
energizes to various seating positions. And - like
its creator - elegantly over standards, about those jumps over
itself that Dreibeiner are not.
As insignificant are however the plastic chairs liked in the
catering trade, on which we sit before the
restaurant. Wewerka wanted to set yardsticks in updating of the
modern shaping with its furniture - also in
architecture, with as Hommage the documenta pavilion sketched at
bad van the raw one, which stands
today in Mnster at the Aasee. Even in the mode left it with
articles of clothing traces - a further elbow in
its mandrierenden personal record, which it does not implement
more broadly. Because the present
pushes - the conditions in Copenhagen, its new conception for
Tokyo are no more topic, but the Russian
neighbour is to support it with an imminent lecture before
Russians. Which it will speak them? It gets
deeply to air, but then it laughs only and is again the young
architect, who admires the clear and beautifulone and whom a
Schelmennase shows many colleagues, who hold themselves for star.
Wewerka does
not know borders. They would be also only hinderlich, in order
to redeem the demand of the modern trend
to transfer the art in the life.
