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...restaurant. "Every painting, every object that is presented here, has to stand on its own within the uncompromising walls of this exhibition hall." That's a demanding standard, since the gallery, Mies van der Rohe's glass pavilion, is a monument to Western Modernism, standing guard across from Potsdamer Platz. At the time of its construction, it stood near the Wall. Another irony is that both März and Blume worked as curators in the National Gallery in East Germany. For März, 64, who sports shoulder-length gray hair and a walrus mustache, the exhibit attempts...
...peak of its popularity in the 1920s, the Wertheim department store on Leipziger Platz in central Berlin boasted of being the biggest in Europe, the place shoppers could find "everything under one roof," from French goat cheese to Wagner opera scores. One contemporary writer even hailed the emporium, with its statues and marble columns, as the Berlin Louvre. Like so much else in Berlin, Wertheim fell victim first to the Nazis and then to the postwar communist rulers of East Germany. Most of the Jewish Wertheim family members fled Germany or were killed at Auschwitz, and the property was nationalized...
...were trying to sort out the ownership issues, German authorities made several deals with Karstadt or firms now owned by it, handing over at least €200 million in Wertheim property and cash. Among the transactions: Berlin authorities gave a triangle of land in central Berlin next to Potsdamer Platz to the retailer for free, on the understanding that it would build a corporate headquarters on it. The company promptly sold the land for about €150 million. The federal government allowed Karstadt to keep for almost a decade about €30 million in proceeds from the sale...
...judge in the New Jersey case is expected to rule much sooner, probably in early fall, whether to admit Principe's suit. And it's possible that the government will try to restart the settlement talks that broke down last year. In the meantime, on the spot in Leipziger Platz where Berliners once flocked to buy their hats, silverware and sausage, the weeds continue to grow...
Berlin is fond of remembering itself in the 1920s when it became the cultural center of Europe. The film reels show the Potsdamer Platz of that era bustling with activity, commerce and culture. Can there be a return to that time after what the twentieth century has wrought upon the body and soul of the city? Potsdamer Platz was destroyed during and after the war and became the no man’s land between the walls. It presents the unique opportunity to start completely fresh and to revolutionize the conception of its urban center. To revive the spirit...