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THE COMPETITION PROJECTS | |
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| Competition | January - July 1953 |
| January 1953 | February 6, 1953 | 14.-16. March | April 1953 | June 12, 1953 |
| "Conceptual Competition". Six architecture firms from outside and four from Mannheim are invited to take part in July, 1952. By January 15, 1953 all the projects have been submitted. | Exhibition of the competition designs in the Kunsthalle in Mannheim; Mies's large detail model (~ 1:130). | The Theater Building Committee of the Board of Aldermen convenes on the designs submitted; Hans Schwippert, Aachen, and Horst Linde, Freiburg, are outside consultants. Aside from Schwarz, they especially favored Mies. | Press Release: "One Day the National Theater Will Look Something Like This". The mayor of Mannheim leaned toward Schwarz's design as the most innovative. | Second-Stage Competition Begins: Rudolf Schwarz, Otto Ernst Schweizer and Gerhard Weber, the latter of whom hadn't even taken part in the first round of the competition, were all chosen by the Theater Construction Committee for the altered program of the final realization stage. Mies was, for the time being, eliminated from the competition. |
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Neben lokalen Büros waren im Juli 1952 sechs auswärtige Architekten aufgefordert worden, sich mit Vorentwürfen an einem Wettbewerb für den Neubau eines Nationaltheaters zu beteiligen, das Oper und Theater in zwei Bühnen verbinden sollte.
Es waren zum Wettbewerb nur solche Architekten eingeladen worden, die während der Jahre des Nazismus in Ablehnung oder Rückzug an ihren Auffassungen zur Moderne festgehalten hatten.
In den Arbeiten zeigen sich unterschiedliche Konzepte, die für die Moderne in der Nachkriegszeit bedeutsam werden. Folgende Architekten hatten Entwürfe eingereicht:
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Apart from local firms, six architects from other cities were invited in July, 1952 to submit preliminary designs for a competition for a new building for the National Theater, which would combine opera and theater on two stages.
Only those modern architects were invited to take part who had remained true to their convictions during the Nazi years, either by going into opposition or receding from public view.
In the designs various ideas which would become significant for postwar architecture are expressed. The following architects submitted designs:
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| © Photos: Ghezala (1;3;4), Stahl (2), Lipp (5;6), Schreiner (7), Geier (8;21), Bogedan (9;10;11;12;13;14), Kratz (15;16;17;19;20), Mausbach (18). | |
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