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Sehr gutes Exemplar mit minimalen Gebrauchsspuren. - Dieser Katalog erschien anläßlich der Ausstellungen "Sumpfstadt" Polish Institute in Berlin, April 19 - August 31, 2012 und Born in Berlin - A letter to Rosa. ZAK/Branicka. April 28 - June 16, 2012. Sprache: Deutsch und Englisch. / The Berliner Stadtschloss [Berlin City Palace], the seat of Prussian kings and German emperors, had survived a lot, including aerial bombings in 1945. Even though horribly mutilated in this last battle, the building could still have risen again. The authorities of the German Democratic Republic, however, handed down the final judgement, and in 1950 the Berliner Stadtschloss was raised to the ground. Another construction took its place, built in part from toxic asbestos: The Palace of the Republic, which was completed in 1976. The new palace had its time of splendour, and was, among other things, the seat of the GDR parliament. It was, however, condemned to a long slow death, having been transformed in 1990 into a living ruin, enlivened by an ever more vigorously growing constellation of weeds. This dying building nourished the imagination of artists who were intrigued by the image of the thousands of tons of concrete, steel and iron absurdly moored for almost twenty years in the very centre of the city. Trees growing on the roof of the Palace of the Republic were inventoried and saved by Ulrike Mohr- enriching the wild garden in Skulpturenpark. The building was also filmed by Tacita Dean, as well as Sophie Calle. One of the palace's characteristic brown reflective glass windows was,transplanted' by Cyprien Gaillard to an apartment block in Warsaw. (Sebastian Cichocki)