Secretary of State for Education awards prizes for the most creative electricity boxes
Winners of Stromnetz Berlin's "Electricity Box Styling 2024" come from Prenzlauer Berg, Reinickendorf, Neukölln, Pankow, Köpenick and Zehlendorf
30.01.2025
They are often grey, unremarkable, and can be found all over Berlin - the 16,500 electricity boxes and substations of Stromnetz Berlin. Every year, schoolchildren in the capital turn 500 of them into real eye-catchers with graffiti during project weeks. Around half of the boxes and stations have already been embellished in this way in recent years. The most creative of these are selected and honoured online and by a jury every year. The prizes for "Electricity Box Styling 2024" in the categories "Projects", "Classic" and "Substation" were presented by Berlin's State Secretary for Education Christina Henke and Stromnetz Berlin Managing Director Bernhard Büllmann on 29 January at the Moabit cogeneration plant. The winners of the competition come from Prenzlauer Berg, Reinickendorf, Neukölln, Lichterfelde, Pankow, Zehlendorf and Köpenick.
Berlin's State Secretary for Education Christina Henke: "The 'Electricity box styling’ competition is a wonderful example of how art and creativity can bring young people together. In it, pupils not only demonstrate their artistic talent, but their ability to enrich public spaces with new perspectives as well. I am delighted to be able to honour the winners of the 2024 competition for managing to implement their ideas in a unique way and helping to shape a piece of Berlin. A big thank you to all the participants for their commitment and passion!"
Stromnetz Berlin Managing Director Bernhard Büllmann: "Our grid reliably supplies the capital with electricity day after day. Yet the grid is only visible in a few places, in particular at the electricity boxes and substations. Over ten years ago, we set out to make Berlin a more beautiful and colourful place. The fact that our electricity box styling competition continues to encourage the creativity of schoolchildren every year is a genuine success story that we are very proud of."
Once again this year, a large number of the young artists involved came to the traditional prize-giving ceremony. A jury consisting of media representatives, citizens, graffiti artists and representatives from Stromnetz Berlin had previously selected the winning motifs. The prizes were then handed over to the school pupils in the form of vouchers for activities that they were able to choose themselves. The winners were: (pictures of all boxes):
Category "Classic"
| Place | School, motif | Motif location |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Freie Grundschule Pfefferwerk (Prenzlauer Berg) - Motiv: Tiergewimmel | Schönfließer Str., 10439 Berlin |
| 2 | Christoph-Ruden-Grundschule (Neukölln), Motiv: Marienkäfer | An den Achterhöfen 32, 12349 Berlin |
| 2 | Hausotter-Grundschule (Reinickendorf), Motiv: Das Olympiastadion | Winterstraße 7, 13409 Berlin |
| 3 | Schulfarm Insel Scharfenberg (Reinickendorf), Motiv: Die Qualle | Milanstr. 22, 13505 Berlin |
Category "Projects"
| 1 | Freie Grundschule Pfefferwerk (Prenzlauer Berg), Motiv: Chinesische Berge | Paul-Robeson-Straße, Ecke Seelower Straße |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | Freie Grundschule Pfefferwerk (Prenzlauer Berg), Motiv: Pfefferschotenregen | Malmöer Str. 27, 10439 Berlin |
| 3 | Wendenschloß-Grundschule (Köpenick), Motiv: Fischers Fritz fischt frische Fische | Dregerhofstraße 5, 12557 Berlin |
Category "Substation"
| 1 | Panke-Schule, Förderzentrum für Geistige Entwicklung (Pankow), Motiv: Inklusive Tierwelt | Vesaliusstraße Ecke Galenusstraße, öffentliches Gelände vor Spielplatz, 13187 Berlin Pankow |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | Karlsgarten-Grundschule (Neukölln), Motiv: Erde und Galaxie | Columbiadamm, Nähe Nr. 128, 12049 Berlin |
| 3 | Sancta-Maria-Schule (Zehlendorf), Motiv: Atlantis und die Wassertiere | Prinz-Friedrich-Leopold-Str. 35 (Ecke Cimbernstr.), 14129 Berlin |
| 3 | Stötzner-Schule (Reinickendorf), Motiv: Unterwasserwelt | Edeka-Parkplatz am S-Bahnhof Wittenau |
Online voting on Insta and on the website: Audience Award goes to Köpenick
After several weeks of voting on Instagram and the Stromnetz Berlin website, the winner of the Audience Award 2024 has also been decided. Here, the motif “Fisherman Fritz” by Wendenschloss-Grundschule in Köpenick won through. The school received the most of the more than 3,000 votes cast. The public’s favourite station is at Dregerhofstrasse 5, 12557 Berlin
