The palace archives deals with the debate on the Palace of the Republic - a lesson on the sensitivities of 17 years after German reunification. As part of the palace archive numerous narrative interviews were conducted and transcribed . Also add so-called ego-documents (personal opinions) the collection of the archive, which is adopted as the special stock from the Berlin State Archive .
The dispute over the demolition of the Palace of the Republic and the construction of the Berlin City Palace is one of the strongest architectural debates of recent German history have been. On the surface it was about the aesthetics of the center of Berlin. In the nuclear debate reflected the political interests and the search for a new identity of the reunified Germany. Palace and the castle can interpreted as codes for different concepts of historical culture be. Political discourse and private memory were highly diversified in the debate.
The treated paper on demolition debate "Palace of the Republic" the palace and the castle as a German memorial site explains the basic lines of the conflict, and provides all materials (numerous interviews with actors of the debate as Eberhard Diepgen, Gregor Gysi, Sabine Bergmann-Pohl etc.) and a comprehensive bibliography.
In a network with more than 30 students over several semesters with major institutions (National Archives Berlin, Humboldt University Society , Best-Sabel's School of Design ) and the Berliner Wissenschaftsverlag a publication and an exhibition (Prenzlauer Berg Museum, Berlin) developed. For publication by professors and representatives of the so-called mid-level faculty and students with intensive instruction editorial wrote. The result is a
395-page book that looks for the first time with a distanced view of the debate in recent years. Deliberately put the project on the previous considerations. It was not about taking sides, but to make the debate on the subject and its actors. The palace itself is dead and almost history. "It was therefore our aim as a historian, this memorial to enter before it becomes a wasteland of oblivion. We want to explicitly about the groups and their claims of meaning and are searching for details and differences, "the authors of the book
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Alexander Schug (Ed.): Political Palace of the Republic. discourse and private memory 2007, 395 p. pb., 29,00 €, ISBN 978-3-8305-1373-5
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