Staging the past: landscape designs, cultural identity and Erinnerungspolitik at Berlin’s Neue Wache
1999; SAGE Publishing; Volume: 6; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1191/096746099701556277
ISSN2058-3435
Autores Tópico(s)Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration
Resumofter the Bundestag voted for Berlin as the new seat of government for a united Federal Republic in 1991, the reconstruction of the city centre accelerated.The sum of $135 billion has been devoted to this massive urban renewal project by the federal government and the city of Berlin (Figure 1).Former icons of the East-West division are being replaced by new government and business complexes, including the former 'death strip' at Potsdamer Platz (the wide zone between the East and West Berlin Walls which spanned several hundred feet), Pariser Platz at the Brandenburg Gate, Checkpoint Charlie, and the area around the Reichstag.As Berlin's city building director, Hans Stimann, explained, 'Berlin is the only place in the world where the centre is empty.It's like an operation on the heart without the rest of the body feeling anything.'
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