Richard Paulick, 1953

Richard Paulick was born on November 7th 1903 in Roßlau near Dessau and after his studies from 1927 to 1930 he worked with Walter Gropius. From 1930 he worked as a self-employed architect and in 1933 he emigrated to Shanghai. After his return to Germany, Paulick, who was a communist, deliberately chose the German Democratic Republic as his new base. In 1950 he started work in Berlin as a department head in the Institute for Architecture and Construction. Parallel to his work reconstructing the Staatsoper, he was involved in the most prestigious architectural project of the GDR, the building of the Stalinallee (today Karl-Marx-Allee) in Berlin-Friedrichshain.