Next door in Hangar 7, the Condor, which has been restored over a period of two decades, is currently being fully reassembled. The restoration is a joint project of the German Museum of Technology, Airbus, the Deutsche Lufthansa Berlin-Stiftung and Rolls-Royce.
The historic Focke-Wulf Fw 200 “Condor” aircraft is the only surviving example of this type.
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Our team has changed this year after Dirk Dreissen left the Fliegerwerkstatt after more than four years.
Social pedagogue Patrick Peinhopf has been on board since February. He completed a manual apprenticeship as a production mechanic before starting his studies. We were able to win over the set designer Donald Becker as a workshop teacher, who has also developed and implemented exhibition designs for various museums as well as youth film and theatre projects, among other things.
Since December, Rosa Kantereit has joined us as a workshop teacher who, as a technical model maker, brings with her manual and CAD know-how.
Jonas Wittrock is still available to us as a working student.
A mixed team with very different expertise and a lot of ideas for the coming years!
A long time of waiting for the wood delivery and a necessary TÜV certification delayed the completion: but now the first four benches could be put up.
Our nice neighbours from WISAG brought the benches to Tempelhofer Feld for us with forklift trucks and lorries.
Continue reading “The first four benches have landed on Tempelhofer Feld”
The Carl-von-Ossietzky-Gymnasium was in urgent need of a chest to store their training equipment for the sports lessons.
With the sculptor and actress Renata Messing, we have brought a completely new project to the Fliegerwerkstatt stage: The ‘Mask performance at the Air Castle’ is the idea of a handicraft-artistic confrontation with oneself. It is about
The young people had to wait a long time for their sailing trip, because the date had to be postponed to the end of August due to corona. But then it finally started: a one-week sailing trip on the Ijsselmeer.
The construction of large wooden benches with a substructure made of flat steel gives the young people the opportunity to get to know many different work steps with different materials.
Five young people took part in the welding course in Rafael Hohlfeld’s metal workshop.
Continue reading “Training in welding as part of our bench project”
Since March, the young people have been learning a new technique, screen printing. When the screen printing workshop was set up, the darkroom for the screens was custom-made by the young people.
Continue reading “Our screen printing workshop gets started”
After spring break it will go on!
Dear Youth,
the Fliegerwerkstatt is still there for you during the current lockdown, even if it is limited. Individual participants from our cooperation with ‘Arbeit und Bildung’ (work and education) are currently coming with their tutors. And soon the Temporary Learning Group will continue – divided into small groups.
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