Tempodrom
Tempodrom begins with Irene Moessinger, a woman who had only recently become a nurse and then used an 800,000 mark inheritance from her father to launch a new kind of performance space in Berlin. She opened the Tempodrom in 1980, next to the Berlin Wall on the west side of Potsdamer Platz, housed in a large circus tent. The site generated enough noise complaints that in 1985 the venue moved to the Tiergarten, remaining there until construction of the new German Chancellery displaced it. During that disruption, the tents went elsewhere, and in May 1999 the venue shifted again to a temporary location near Ostbahnhof. A permanent Tempodrom was finally erected in 2001 on the grounds of the old Anhalter Bahnhof, whose war-damaged ruins had been demolished in 1960. The design was entrusted to von Gerkan, Marg und Partner (GMP), and the central arena’s roof spans 37 metres. …
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