1870-1990: construction, destruction, and reconstruction

        reading: Ghosts of Berlin ("The Reichstag," 84-96)

 

bonn to berlin: the capital question

        reading: Jane Kramer excerpt from The Politics of Memory

 

the 90s: foster, christo, and kunst

        reading: Transcript of the Bundestag Hearing over Christo's Plan to Wrap the Reichstag

                Wolfgang Thierse Speech, April 1999

                  Capital Dilemma ("Norman Foster's Reichstag: Illuminating Shadows of the Past," 121-134)

                  Articles from Roger Cohen's NYT Berlin Journal:

                  "With Smoked Salmon and Beer, Berlin Greets Parliament"

                  "Poking Fun, Artfully, at a Heady German Word"

the reichstag

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