SEEN FROM ELSEWHERE – In the heart of the Barnim forests, the villa and a training center for officials of the Free German Youth (FDJ) are threatened with demolition. If the maintenance of the complex swallows up a quarter of a million euros each year, the adoption of a rescue plan is not excluded.
Par Jan Alexander Casper (The World)
Jasmin Rettinger and Johannes Medebach have reduced the Bogensee site, which houses Goebbels’ villa and the elite FDJ school, to cardboard models. As part of their final dissertation at the Technical University (TU) of Berlin, the future architects show what this site undermined by political history, located 40 kilometers north of the capital, could one day look like German. After decades of inaction, they may finally be able to do something with this emblematic place in the history of the German dictatorship.
Located in the heart of the Barnim forests, this 17-hectare site, which has no mobile telephone network, no signage, or public transport service, is particularly difficult to reach and operate. Black locust trees and false cypresses have invaded the historic buildings. Beyond the peaks rise the Stalinist facades of the East German high school “Wilhelm…
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