Friedhof Heerstraße

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Sausuhlensee

Please close the door because of the wild boars

The cemetery Friedhof Heerstraße lies in Berlin, Germany, district of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf. It lies at the Trakehnerallee 1 (Trakehner avenue No.1) beneath the Olympiastadion. The name is a little misleading today because it originally refers to the inhabitants of the Villenkolonie Heerstraße, for which this cemetery was created in 1921-24 around the Sausuhlensee (Wild boar's lake). The cemetery is 149,650 m ² large and created by the garden architect Erwin Barth as a forest cemetery. The chapel was constructed by Erich Blunck. Today it is not original, because its original oriental style was to be seen from the 1936 Summer Olympics. This view incurred Adolf Hitler and so he let decrease the tower. In 1948 the war-destroyed chapel was rebuilt in another variation.

From the beginning this cemetery was open for all, Christians, Jews, Muslims and even suiciders. Because of its idyllic location on the lake it gathers many prominent people.

[edit] Graves of prominent people

Map

Grave of Arno Holz

Grave of Oskar Sala

Neighbours: George Grosz (left), Theodor Däubler (right)

Early work of later nazi favorite Josef Thorak for the jewish family of Franz Ullstein

(* = de:Ehrengrab des Landes Berlin) (honour grave, means = the city of Berlin pays all fees)

Conrad Ansorge, composer and pianist
Hermann Bamberg* (1846-1928), Berlin honour citizen
Ottomar Batzel, local politician
Marcus Behmer* (1879-1958), drawer
Arnold Berliner* (1862-1942), physicist
Leo Blech*, composer and conductor
Werner Bloch*, Stadtältester, city-oldest
Michael Bohnen, chamber singer
Karl Bonhoeffer*, physician, mental specialist
Alfred Braun*, broadcast pioneer
Ferdinand Bruckner*, writer
Erich Buchholz* (1891-1972), painter, drawer
Horst Buchholz, actor
Paul Cassirer* (1871-1925), art dealer
Christian Chruxin (1937-2006), designer
Theodor Däubler* (1876-1934), poet
Alexander Dehms* (1904-1979), Stadtältester
Frida Deman-Leider*, chamber singer
Günter von Drenkmann*, president of the Court of Appeal, murdered
Bill Drews* (1870-1938), Prussian Minister of the Interior
Werner Düttmann, architect and sculptor
Tilla Durieux*, actress
Fritz Dylong*, Stadtältester
Edyth Edwards* (1899-1956), actress
Leonore Ehn* (1888-1978), actress
Alexander Engel (1902-1968), actor
Erich Fiedler (1901 -1981), actor
Max Jakob Friedländer (1867-1958), art historian
Curt Goetz*, actor and writer, with Valérie von Martens
George Grosz*, painter and drawer
Wolfgang Gruner, Stachelschwein
Käthe Haack, actress, with her daughter Hannelore Schroth, actress
Thea von Harbou*, writer, also film scripts
Maximilian Harden*, journalist and writer
Alfred Helberger* (1871-1946), painter
Hilde Hildebrand (1897-1976), actress
Walter Höllerer (1922-2003), literature scientist
Karl Hofmann (1870-1940), chemist
Arno Holz*, writer
Hermann Jansen*, architect
Hans-Werner Kock (1930-2003), Journalist, local TV moderator
Georg Kolbe*, sculptor
Willi Kollo, tenor
Victor de Kowa*, actor , with his Japanese wife Michiko de Kowa-Tanaka, actress, singer
August Kraus* (1868-1934), sculptor and painter
Eduard Künneke, composer, with his daughter Evelyn Künneke, singer
Helene Lange*, early women's lib fighter
Horst H. Lange, jazz researcher
Leopold Langstein* (1876-1933), child physician
Melvin Lasky, American, writer, publisher of a famous periodical de:Der Monat
Karl Heinz Martin*, director of the Hebbel-Theater
Hermann Minkowski* (1864-1909), mathematician and physicist, with Oskar Minkowski* (1858-1931), internalist
Hans Joachim Moser (1889-1967), music scientist
de:Hermann Müller (Leichtathlet) (1885 -1947), marathoner, walker, 2 world records, some medals, f.e. in Athens 1906
Albert Panschow*, Stadtältester
Josef Pelz von Felinau, writer
Werner Peters (1918-1971), actor, (Der Untertan) and film producer
Günter Rexrodt (1941-2004), politician (FDP)
Joachim Ringelnatz*, writer , poet
Ulrich Roski (1944-2003), Liedermacher
Oscar Sabo (1881-1969), actors, with Oscar Sabo jun. (1922-1958)
Oskar Sala (1910-2002), composer
Willy Schaeffers, Kabarettist (honour grave in 2001 denied)
Edith Schollwer (1904-2002), actress and according to gravestone the last Insulanerin
August Scholtis*, writer
Johann Heinrich Schultz (1894-1970), physician, inventor of the autogenous training
Carl Schuhmann* (1869-1946), sportsman, many medals
Leonard Steckel* (1901-1971), actor and theatre director
Georg Süßenguth, architect
Jakob Tiedtke (1875-1960), actor
Family grave of Franz Ullstein, with nude pair by Josef Thorak
Kurt Wegner* (1898-1964), local politician
Paul Wegener*, famous actor
Grethe Weiser*, actress, buried as Grethe Schwerin
Dorothea Wieck, actress, best known as (Mädchen in Uniform)
Agnes Windeck (1888-1975), actress
Jürgen Wohlrabe (1936-1995), politician, film lender
Hermann Zangemeister (died 1937), before WW1 co-organisator of London traffic, after WW1 in Berlin
Augusta von Zitzewitz, painter