The end of the Palast der Republik

[Soviet]

Maybe it is possible to sign some kind of 'book of conoldences' or support them in some other way?? Cheers, Torsten.

Look here Torsten : http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/gesells...388897,00.html

and http://www.palastbuendnis.de/

[torstenbel]

I have just put myself on their list of supporters and this is where you can do it: http://www.palastbuendnis.de/pages/b.../buendnis.php#

Cheers, Torsten.

[Ralph P]

Torsten - Very interesting. I wonder if what the supporters are doing is going to really work.

I have just put myself on their list of supporters and this is where you can do it: http://www.palastbuendnis.de/pages/b.../buendnis.php#

Cheers, Torsten.

[torstenbel]

Torsten - Very interesting. I wonder if what the supporters are doing is going to really work.

will probably not work, but it is worth a try....and does not cost us anything to voice our support... Cheers, Torsten.

[Thälmannpionier]

Since yesterday, the destruction of the Palast has begun

here is the latest newspaper articel from today

Regards
Andreas

[torstenbel]

very sad, but nothing anyone can do about that now... does anyone know, where they are selling off parts of the interior? Cheers, Torsten.

[Soviet]

It seems to be an article from the Bild Zeitung.

Too bad I'll be too late to take my last pictures.

By the way, are they really constructing again the old Stadtschloss?

http://www.faz.net/s/Rub28FC768942F3...pezial%A7Phtml

[AR-11]

Here some pics of the "Palast" from my visit to Berlin last year

[AR-11]

the view from river "Spree"

[AR-11]

and my last pic of the "Palast" in 2005:........ with a tear in the buttonhole, AR-11

[ritterkreuz1945]

well, here we agree again... that is exactly what I was thinking when the wall came down and we went to the elections in May 1990, etc...that is what the people's movements that started the 'revolution' wanted...those were pretty much their exact aims only to be kicked out of the way very, very quickly by the major established political parties from the West as soon as the wall was down...today, I am ok with the way it is and I am completely neutral towards the question of whether there should be only one German state or maybe still two German states...I have not lived in Germany for nearly 15 years and that has softened my view on this question considerably.../Cheers, Torsten.

Hallo Torsten!
I was wondering what motivated you to leave Germany, and why you settled in England. Would you mind sharing that with me?
Thank You.
Michael

[torstenbel]

Hallo Torsten!
I was wondering what motivated you to leave Germany, and why you settled in England. Would you mind sharing that with me?
Thank You.
Michael

ah well, it was a woman... but I moved to live with her in Scotland at first and not in England and I only moved to England in 1994 (from Scotland)...Cheers, Torsten.

[DonC]

Here are a few pics from my Berlin trip last week. It appears that due to the Palast being shot through with asbestos, they are proceeding very carefully with the demolition. It is ironic that the Berliner Dom across the street is being partially refurbished at the same time - the victory of religion over Socialism???

Don

[DonC]

From the front...

[Soviet]

The new trend in Berlin.

Destroy your own Palast with your paper block.