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Alle kennen das bemerkenswerte Gebäude in der Nähe vom Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, in dem sich der exklusive Soho House Club befindet. Manche haben aber keine Ahnung von der erstaunlicher Geschichte dieses Eckhauses. Ursprünglich als erstes Kreditkaufhaus errichtet diente es in der Zeit des Kriegs der Hitlerjugend, und danach wurde als die Zentrale fur die Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands (SED) benutzt. Wir haben kürzlich Fotos von allen diesen Perioden entdeckt.
Hitlerjugend Headquarters, photo: Klinke & Co., 1933, Bundesarchiv, Bild 146-1993-021-16 / Klinke & Co. / CC-BY-SA 3.0
1st May celebration, photo: Abraham Pisarek, 1946
Central Comittee of the Socialist Unity Part of Germany, 1950
Day of the Socialist Unity Part of Germany, 1950, photo: Heinz Funck
During the month of the German-Russian Friendship, 1951, Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-12480-0002 / CC-BY-SA 3.0
Photo: Weiss, 1954
Photo: Novack, 1958
Und so sieht das Gebäude heutzutage aus:
Photo: rey perezoso / cc
by Michalina
on März 29th, 2017
updated on Juli 25th, 2019
in Stories
“Torstraße 1” is a great novel capturing the story of the building embedded in the daily life of 2 families closely connected to it 🙂
Interesting? What does “first department store where you could pay in rates” mean? Were prices on a sliding scale?
you buy on credit and pay off in smaller rates over a period of time. it was a new concept at the time.
Wahnsinn, ich wusste gar nicht, was alles in diesem Gebäude schon so alles stattgefunden hat, bzw. wer dort so alles residierte. Schöne Vintage Fotos die ihr zum Soho House gefunden habt. Nice Post!
Liebe Grüße
Nika
from communism to capitalism
Excellent article. We just stayed for 4 days and Soho House does an excellent job of whitewashing history and even humorising it with the nod nod, wink wink Politburo room. Why don’t they openly have a gallery showing its history. Or is this not wanted by the Germans as even the Wall has all but been erased. This is real 20th century history that teaches us to put today in context. The glib marketing text of the Bauhaus interiors is also just wrong. Soho House can do a far better job to be honest and not pander to making this a fun, hip, cool island when it can also educate and inform.
Keep in mind where the global company Soho House comes from originally 😉