A305/04: Industrial Architecture: AEG and Fagus Factories
In the context of the exhibition The University Is Now on Air: Broadcasting Modern Architecture, the CCA presents twenty-four broadcasts from the course A305, History of Architecture and Design 1890–1939, by The Open University. To learn more about the project, visit
In television broadcast 4, Tim Benton compares the industrial buildings by Peter Behrens for the AEG
(General Electrical Company of Germany) in Berlin with the almost exactly contemporaneous Fagus shoe-last factory which Walter Gropius designed for Karl Benscheidt, in Alfeld-an-der-Leine, both built just before the First World War. […] The Fagus factory is often referred to as the first really ‘modern’ building, while the AEG buildings, at first sight, appear to have a markedly classical aesthetic.
Written by Tim Benton, directed by Nick Levinson, produced the BBC/Open University, aired 15 March 1975 on BBC2.
AEG - A Brand Makes History
It was Thomas Edison who, in 1879, with the design of the light bulb, doused the world into electric light and had this innovation patented. The triumphal advance of electric lighting began.
Endowed with the rights to use Edison's invention, Rathenau had already, a year earlier, in 1883, founded the Deutsche Edison Gesellschaft für angewandte Electricität (German Edison Company for applied electricity).
In 1887, it is being renamed Allgemeine Electricitätsgesellschaft . The AEG is born, headed by Emil Rathenau.
In 1891, at Halle an der Saale, the company built a complete electric streetcar system. It is the first of its kind in Europe and an economic success. Only five years later, 34 trams are in operation or under construction.
At this time, the long-time chief engineer at AEG, Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrowolsky is already considered the father of AC technology. He devoloped the three-phase alternating current. First he invented the so-called squirrel cage induction motor, then the three-legged three-phase transformer. With this, phase electricity becomes practically useful. To date, the induction motor is the most widely used electric motor. Without transformers there is no power transmission. On the occasion of the International Electro-technical Exhibition in Frankfurt am Main, also in 1891, the AEG again sets new standards. They build the first long distance transmission of electricity: by means of the new transformers, high voltage three-phase current of 20,000 volts would be transmitted over 176 km, from Lauffen to Frankfurt am Main . The AEG is able to demonstrate that electricity can be transported with low conduction losses over long distances. A regional setup of power plants has become possible. Nationwide supply of electricity in the German Reich is fast approaching.
1899: At the Berlin-Spandau Canal, the power plant Moabit goes into operation. It supplies current to a voltage of 6 kV, which enables it to provide for a larger area. The power generation business has become an integral pillar of the AEG.
Two years slater, at the turn of the century, the corporate group has set up around 248 power plants at home and abroad, with a total capacity of nearly 200,000 KW in Germany and abroad.
Top performance also on the track: In 1903, this three- phase express railcar achieved a world record, with a speed of 210.2 kilometers per hour. In 1911, the first electrified mainline railway line in Germany, between Bitterfeld and Dessau, is put into operation.
With the outbreak of World War I, the management structure of the AEG changes. In 1915, Emil Rathenau dies. The leadership of the AEG is now in the hands of his son, Walter Rathenau. During war he focuses on the armament factory, compensating for the drop of overseas market orders.
After World War I, the German economy is suffering from the reparations to the Allies. But in 1922, with the Treaty of Rapallo, between Germany and Russia, The German Reich is able to liberate itself from the isolation. The treaty had been negotiated by Walther Rathenau, who, meanwhile, had become Foreign minister. The AEG takes considerable benefit. Russia is now its largest trading partner.
Berlin in the 1920s: The Roaring Twenties bring an impressive economic recovery for the Weimar Republic, especially the electrical industry. In 1923, the Vox-Haus in Berlin 1923 hosts the first German radio station. Via the TELEFUNKEN-company, AEG is directly involved. Starting in 1924, the same is true with the development of new, young medium called television. From 1928 on, the first TV sets of TELEFUNKEN are on the market. With the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games, the big moment of television has come. The mighty Ikonoskop, developed by AEG Telefunken, is the first mobile television camera in the world and is popularly called the Olympic cannon. It provides most of the competition photos in the Olympic Stadium ... amongst others to 25 connected public TV households in Berlin.
Meanwhile, the construction and development of proven and tested AEG technologies AEG goes ahead with giant strides. At the Internationale Funkausstellung of 1967, with a symbolic push by Germanys Foreign Minister Willy Brandt, the familiar black and white television picture takes on color. The Telefunken PAL system: An innovation of TELEFUNKEN. In 1970, after the merger with TELEFUNKEN in the same year, the AEG is the twelfth-largest electric company in the world, with about 180,000 employees. The products of AEG-Telefunken are labelled with the seal of quality: Made in Germany.
Now, the close trade relations with Moscow that exist since the days of Walther Rathenau pay off. Until the year 1984, AEG delivers 240 powerful gas turbine and compressor stations to the Soviet Union.
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Die AEG-Turbinenhalle von Peter Behrens
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Die AEG-Turbinenhalle von Peter Behrens ist der bekannteste Bau deutscher Industriearchitektur. Michael Voigtländer, Diplom-Ingenieur und Stadtführer zur Berliner Industriekultur, erklärt die Besonderheit des modernen Industrietempels.
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Turbine Building In Germany Aka Turbinre Building (0)
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Shots inside a large factory owned by AEG building massive turbines. Good shots of people working on turbines. Massive pieces of metal are moved into place by cranes. Good shots of a man tightening nuts with large spanner.
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Peter Behrens - A Pioneer of modern Architecture Pt.1 Turbinenhalle
This little film shows the 'Turbinenhalle' in Berlin Moabit.
Peter Behrens was forerunner of modern architecture.
His team in berlin was composed from people, that became stars in architecture later:
LeCurbusier
Mies van der Rohe
Walter Gropius
He was extremely influential in many fields. Among these were the invention of 'corporate disign'. He developed a certain stile in industrial architecture and the 'Turbinenhalle' is the most prominent example.
AEG goes bankrupt, August 1982
For many years, subsidies have made the living in West Berlin easy. But now cuts are on the horizon, and in August 1982 electronics giant AEG-Telefunken files for bankruptcy. Some 11,000 jobs hang in the balance.
Karl Carstens, then president of West Germany, visits West Berlin as part of a nationwide tour. He comes face-to-face with the AEG employees’ predicament and promises to bring the issue up with the government on his return to Bonn.
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Insolvenz der AEG 1982
Auf der Subventionsinsel West-Berlin hat man viele Jahre lang gut gelebt. Doch jetzt wird gekürzt. Eine Folge: Im August 1982 beantragt der Elektro-Riese AEG-Telefunken die Insolvenz. 11.000 Arbeitsplätze sind in Gefahr.
Bundespräsident Karl Carstens, auf Wandertour durch ganz Deutschland, wird in West-Berlin mit den Problemen der AEG-Beschäftigten konfrontiert. Er verspricht, sich bei der Bundesregierung für die Betroffenen einzusetzen.
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Peter Behrens - AEG Montagehalle Bln. Gesundbrunnen
Peter Behrens gehörte zu den Wegbereitern der modernen Architektur. Er hat viele Dinge erfunden und war stilbildend in seiner Zeit. Eine seiner Ideen ist als 'corporate design' bekannt geworden.
Zu seinen Mitarbeitern gehörten die späteren Berühmtheiten Mies von der Rohe, Le Corbousier und Walter Gropius.
Die Montagehalle entstand im Zusammenhang mit seiner Tätigkeit für AEG. Er entwarf auch Schriften, Logos und Geräte. Unter anderem stammt der Entwurf zum Schriftzug am Reichstag von ihm.
Auf AEG
Dritter Teil unserer Serie über Muggenhof:
Wir dokumentieren die wechselvolle Geschichte des AEG-Areals.
Vom Niedergang eines traditionellen Industriestandortes zur neuen, kreativen Nutzung.
Mit Musik von Gymmick, DJ Bladeranner und der DGB Songgruppe Regensburg
DLF 14.04.2018 Vor 150 Jahren geboren Peter Behrens: Unangepasster Autodidakt mit vielfältigem Werk
Der gebürtige Hamburger Peter Behrens war beeinflusst vom Jugendstil, fand aber schnell zu einer funktionalen Ingenieursästhetik. Als Industriedesigner arbeitete er für die AEG. Zugleich aber war der deutsche Architekt ein Mentor für neusachliche Architekten aus aller Welt.
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Turbinas
Fábrica abandonada con sus turbinas funcionando.
Los Invisibles aguardan desde siempre la orden Final
Neonsplash Turbinenhalle Oberhausen 19.04.2013
Sauerei in vollem Gange xD
Behrens-Eaton House Museum
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