{"id":2187,"date":"2023-07-10T16:30:39","date_gmt":"2023-07-10T14:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kaethe-kollwitz-digital.de\/unkategorisiert\/berlin-as-a-center-of-life\/"},"modified":"2023-09-05T16:27:19","modified_gmt":"2023-09-05T14:27:19","slug":"berlin-as-a-center-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kaethe-kollwitz-digital.de\/en\/permanent-exhibition\/berlin-as-a-center-of-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Berlin as a center of life"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\">What kind of city was it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"720\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1280 \/ 720;\" width=\"1280\" controls src=\"https:\/\/kaethe-kollwitz-digital.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/DA_5_Berlin_ENG.mp4\"><\/video><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Video about Berlin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Berlin became the capital of the German Empire in 1871. Industrialization was in full swing, many factories and companies had settled outside the city walls, and suburbs such as Moabit and Wedding were incorporated in the city. In 1905, more than two million people lived in the Berlin metropolitan area. Precarious living and working conditions often led to illness, which Karl Kollwitz treated in his medical practice in Prenzlauer Berg. His wife thus became acquainted with such living conditions, which she made visible to a bourgeois public through her art.     <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1920, with a single law passed after the First World War, Berlin became the third-largest metropolis in the world overnight. The city and surrounding affluent areas such as Charlottenburg were merged into &#8220;Greater Berlin&#8221; in an effort to control social grievances. However, political unrest and severe economic crises during the Weimar Republic again exacerbated the situation with hyperinflation and high unemployment.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Initial plans for a \u201cGreater Berlin\u201d had already been created in 1910. The housing shortage and misery in tenements were to be remedied by a sensible urban planning policy. Werner Hegemann, the curator of the successful urban planning exhibition, had K\u00e4the Kollwitz design a poster for his initiative that was intended to rouse Berliners with the following facts:   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;600,000 Greater Berliners live in apartments in which every room is occupied by 5 or more people. Hundreds of thousands of children are without playgrounds.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"713\" src=\"https:\/\/kaethe-kollwitz-digital.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Sonderausstellung_Bilderder-Grossstadt_Antal-5-1024x713.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kaethe-kollwitz-digital.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Sonderausstellung_Bilderder-Grossstadt_Antal-5-1024x713.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/kaethe-kollwitz-digital.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Sonderausstellung_Bilderder-Grossstadt_Antal-5-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kaethe-kollwitz-digital.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Sonderausstellung_Bilderder-Grossstadt_Antal-5-768x535.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kaethe-kollwitz-digital.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Sonderausstellung_Bilderder-Grossstadt_Antal-5-1536x1069.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/kaethe-kollwitz-digital.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Sonderausstellung_Bilderder-Grossstadt_Antal-5-2048x1426.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/kaethe-kollwitz-digital.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Sonderausstellung_Bilderder-Grossstadt_Antal-5-1200x836.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/kaethe-kollwitz-digital.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Sonderausstellung_Bilderder-Grossstadt_Antal-5-1980x1379.jpg 1980w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">K\u00e4the Kollwitz: Poster for Greater Berlin 1912, Private collection Switzerland<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-normal-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kaethe-kollwitz-digital.de\/en\/permanent-exhibition\/kaethe-kollwitz-and-her-friends\/\">Previous Post: Biography &#8211; K\u00e4the Kollwitz and her friends<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-normal-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kaethe-kollwitz-digital.de\/en\/permanent-exhibition\/self-portraits\/\">Next Post: Biography &#8211; Self Portraits<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-16018d1d wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/kaethe-kollwitz-digital.de\/en\/tour-permanent-exhibition\/\">Back to table of contents<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What kind of city was it? Berlin became the capital of the German Empire in 1871. Industrialization was in full swing, many factories and companies had settled outside the city walls, and suburbs such as Moabit and Wedding were incorporated in the city. 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