Friedenau

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Friedenau is a locality within the borough of Tempelhof-Schöneberg in Berlin, Germany.

Contents 1 Etmology 2 History 3 Notable people 4 See also

[edit] Etmology

The origin of the name Friedenau is German; coming from the word Frieden (peace) and the suffix -au, referring to floodplains. Hence Friedenau means "floodplain of peace".

[edit] History

In 1871 Friedenau was founded as a commuter town on part of the Deutsch-Wilmersdorf manor, the name was chosen considering the end of the Franco-Prussian War in the same year. The real-estate development became a self-governing municipality within the Province of Brandenburg in 1874.

It joined with the town of Schöneberg in 1920 as the former 11th administrative borough of Greater Berlin. In the short time from April 29 to June 30, 1945, when the Red Army occupied all Berlin, Friedenau was a borough in its own right, until it was reunified with Schöneberg as a borough within the American Sector of West Berlin.

On April 5, 1986 a bomb exploded at the La Belle discotheque, Hauptstraße 78, killing a Turkish woman and two U.S. servicemen and injuring numerous people. A plaque marks the site.

[edit] Notable people

• Max Bruch, composer, Albestraße 3,
• Hans Magnus Enzensberger, poet and writer, Fregestraße 19,
• Max Frisch, architect and writer, Sarrazinstraße 8,
• Günter Grass, writer and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Niedstraße 13,
• Georg Hermann, writer, Bundesallee 68 and 108 (at that time Kaiserallee) and Stubenrauchstraße 5,
• Theodor Heuss, the later Federal President, Fregestraße 80,
• Kurt Hiller, writer, Hähnelstraße 9,
• Hannah Höch, artist, Büsingstraße 16,
• Uwe Johnson, writer, Niedstraße 14 and Stierstraße 3,
• Erich Kästner, writer Niedstraße 5 (with his secretary Elfriede Mechnig),
• Karl Kautsky, politician, Saarstraße 14,
• Adam Kuckhoff, writer and member of the resistance, Wilhelmshöher Straße 18,
• Friedrich Luft, drama critic, Bundesallee 74,
• Rainer Maria Rilke, lyric poet, Rheingaustraße 8,
• Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, painter, Niedstraße 14 and Stierstraße 3,
• Walter Trier, drawer and illustrator, Elsastraße 2,
• Kurt Tucholsky, satirist and writer, Bundesallee 79 (at that time Kaiserallee).

[edit] See also

• Städtischer Friedhof III

v • d • e Boroughs and localities of Berlin Boroughs: Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf • Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg • Lichtenberg • Marzahn-Hellersdorf • Mitte • Neukölln • Pankow • Reinickendorf • Spandau • Steglitz-Zehlendorf • Tempelhof-Schöneberg • Treptow-Köpenick Boroughs (west), (1920-) 2000: Charlottenburg • Kreuzberg • Neukölln • Reinickendorf • Schöneberg • Spandau • Steglitz • Tempelhof • Tiergarten • Wedding • Wilmersdorf • Zehlendorf Boroughs (east), (1920-) 2000: Friedrichshain • Hellersdorf (1986) • Hohenschönhausen (1985) • Köpenick • Lichtenberg • Marzahn (1979) • Mitte • Pankow • Prenzlauer Berg • Treptow • Weißensee Localities: Adlershof • Britz • Dahlem • Friedenau • Frohnau • Gatow • Grunewald • Hansaviertel • Haselhorst • Heiligensee • Hermsdorf • Karlshorst • Kaulsdorf • Kladow • Lichterfelde • Mariendorf • Marienfelde • Märkisches Viertel • Moabit • Rosenthal • Staaken • Tegel • Wannsee • Westend

Coordinates: 52°28′20″N, 13°19′40″E