New lecture series of the historical association: Bauhaus in Bad Tölz and magic

Created: 03/07/2022, 11:00 am

Bauhaus in Bad Toelz?

Architectural historian Kaija Voss will pursue this question.

When the district air conditioning station went into operation in Badstrasse in 1938, the building was very controversial among the population.

Today there is a doctor's office © Repro: cs-press

The lean Corona times are over: On March 23rd, the new historical lecture series will start in the Tölz City Museum.

Bad Tölz - "Whoever builds along the way has many masters", quoted the Tölzer Kurier in 1938 in view of the newly opened district air-conditioning station in the bathing area.

"Seldom have so many suggestions and counter-suggestions been made," is how the newspaper, which had long been state-controlled at the time, cautiously describes its criticism of the public building.

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Has architectural modernism gained a foothold in the spa town?

Eight decades later, the Geretsried architecture historian Kaija Voss will deal with the exciting question of how far architectural modernism was able to gain a foothold in a small Bavarian town that was brought into line in terms of architectural style by Gabriel von Seidl.

After the dry pandemic years, the Historical Association for the Bavarian Oberland, the City Museum and Archives again have a list of notable lectures on offer for 2022.

Kaija Voss will kick things off on Wednesday, March 23, at 7:30 p.m. in the historic meeting room of the City Museum.

The post office on Hindenburgstraße was extremely controversial

Bauhaus, architectural modernism in Tölz?

The answer to this question may surprise many.

Not only the weather office in the bathing part with its striking tower, which could be in any Bauhaus ensemble, is an example.

The post office on Hindenburgstraße should also be mentioned.

The Tölzer would call it "quite normal" today.

At the time of its construction (1929), however, the building was extremely controversial, for example because of the missing roof overhang and its too clear architectural style.

"Not a local building method", the Tölz chamberlain and town chronicler Franz Xaver Rottenfusser grumbled about this example of the Bavarian postal building school.

The classic of Tölz Modernism: the foyer

Kaija Voss will, of course, also talk about the classics of Tölz modernism, the foyer, and the building which, when it was built (1968/69), triggered fierce protests from the preservationists: the modern replacement building for the Khannturm.

Not even an authority like Gabriel von Seidl could have saved it from demolition.

Seidl once acquired it with foresight in order to protect the building permanently.

However, at the end of the 1960s, the city authorities pushed through a new building in favor of better-flowing traffic.

The artist, magician, novelist and caricaturist Walter Sperling

The second exciting topic of the historian season is a little sparrow.

The artist, magician, novelist and caricaturist Walter Sperling used this bird symbol to draw his illustrations and cartoons.

Sperling lived and worked in Bad Tölz for over 25 years and was a big hit in the entertainment business from the 1920s under the stage name "Tagrey".

Sperling (1897 – 1975), who is also buried at the Tölz Forest Cemetery, wrote over 100 books on riddles, brain teasers and magic.

On April 27th it will be magical in the historic boardroom

At the age of ten, Thomas Vité from Ravensburg was infected with the magician virus through a Sperling book.

The now award-winning member of the Magic Circle Germany has made it its task to keep the memory of Walter Sperling alive.

On the occasion of Sperling's 125th birthday on Wednesday, April 27, at 7:30 p.m. in the meeting room of the City Museum, the "amazing artist" Thomas Vité will dedicate an evening of lectures to his great role model.

In the dessert, as stated in the announcement, Thomas Vité will show an excerpt from his evening program "SimSalaSolo".

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• Other lectures:

• May 25th: "Limitless and in color - game without limits in Bad Tölz 1972", with film, city archivist Sebastian Lindmeyr;

  
  

• June 29: "Tölz and the Danube Trade", Andrea Barbara Serles, University of Vienna;

  
  

• July 20: “A city in transition.

  Munich and the Olympic Games", Dr.

  Andreas Heusler, Munich City Archive.

  
  

• 21 September: "Poet at the drawing board: The architect Emanuel von Seidl and his buildings in Murnau and Bad Tölz", Katharina Drexler.

  
  

• 5 October: "Thomas Mann's path to democracy - On the 100th anniversary of the speech 'From the German Republic'", Prof. Dieter Borchmeyer.

  
  

• November 23: "Craftsmen of the Isar - The Bavarian Court Architect Hans Reiffenstuel", Martin Kessler.

  
  

• All lectures start at 7.30 p.m. in the Stadmuseum (meeting room).

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