Landed
Explored February 9, 2023
Depending on the point of view, the Tempodrom, a concert hall and event location, looks like a crown or a circus tent, or – getting very close with 7 mm (=14 mm FF) – like a starship that has just landed or is ready for take-off. The intended connotaton is a circus tent because that is what the Tempodrom started as back in 1980.
Founded by former nurse Irene Moessinger (who used an 800,000 DM heritage to start the Tempodrom) as a West-Berlin subculture event location, the original Tempodrom was located on the west side of Potsdamer Platz. Due to noise complaints, it moved to the nearby Tiergarten Park five years later.
When the Tiergarten site was chosen as building ground for the new German Chancellery (after the German reunification in 1990), the Tempodrom moved to a temporary location near Ostbahnhof, before it found its final location as a solid building on the site of Anhalter Bahnhof in 2001. Anhalter Bahnhof, or what is left of it, is not far from Potsdamer Platz, the Tempodrom's original founding site, so one could say that the Tempodrom has finally come home.
Landed
Explored February 9, 2023
Depending on the point of view, the Tempodrom, a concert hall and event location, looks like a crown or a circus tent, or – getting very close with 7 mm (=14 mm FF) – like a starship that has just landed or is ready for take-off. The intended connotaton is a circus tent because that is what the Tempodrom started as back in 1980.
Founded by former nurse Irene Moessinger (who used an 800,000 DM heritage to start the Tempodrom) as a West-Berlin subculture event location, the original Tempodrom was located on the west side of Potsdamer Platz. Due to noise complaints, it moved to the nearby Tiergarten Park five years later.
When the Tiergarten site was chosen as building ground for the new German Chancellery (after the German reunification in 1990), the Tempodrom moved to a temporary location near Ostbahnhof, before it found its final location as a solid building on the site of Anhalter Bahnhof in 2001. Anhalter Bahnhof, or what is left of it, is not far from Potsdamer Platz, the Tempodrom's original founding site, so one could say that the Tempodrom has finally come home.