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Publisher Note

“I look at the photographs by Thomas Florschuetz in this book with great satisfaction,” writes Durs Grünbein. “Not everything should stay, some things are worth it to perish. This is also the case with the building, which is being captured here for the last time at the moment of its slaughter ”. We are talking about the “Palace of the Republic” in Berlin, which Thomas Florschuetz documented in this artist's book shortly before the demolition.
“They show the sublime calm of the inevitable, stations of dismantling, the stoicism of rusty steel girders, the imperturbability of the concrete.” However, it was not the submerged building, but the view through its copper-coated windows of the neighboring Museum Island that gave the publication its title. Durs Grünbein, the most important German lyric poet of his generation, wrote 13 Berlin poems on this, which correspond in a puzzling way with the plates by Thomas Florschuetz.

Publisher
Release Place Köln, Germany
Edition 1st edition
Release Date 2006
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Identifiers
ISBN-13: 978-3865601476
Work  
Subform Photobook
Topics Berlin, Buildings, Demolition
Methods Photography
Language German
Pages 80