Eine Erste Adresse in Berlin

The "myth Kurfürstendamm" belongs to the present as well as to the history of the probably most famous boulevard of Berlin. The atmosphere on the Kudamm was a mixture of stars and starlets, literati and artists, old nobility and new wealth, celebrities and "Adabeis". The intersection around Uhlandstraße with the house number 210 was a focal point of the big city hustle and bustle. Between the Maison de France and the Ku'damm-Karree, it gathered big names as residents, from General Schliefen to the architect of Ostpolitik Egon Bahr, housed Haute Couture as well as Willy Brandt as a regular guest. On the occasion of the "ecological" new building at Hof Kudamm 210 - a wooden post-and-beam house - architectural historian Falk Jaeger devotes himself to this house and its history. Far from a mere description of the building, he develops a cultural-historical narrative that combines urban-historical with architectural, cultural with social elements to unfold the panorama of meaning of this first address Kudamm 210.