<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9136898263267163859</id><updated>2012-02-16T19:59:35.001-08:00</updated><title type='text'>stopstadtschloss</title><subtitle type='html'>Schloss Mit Lustig! Cancel The Castle! Oct 17 15.00</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://stopstadtschloss.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9136898263267163859/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://stopstadtschloss.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>stopstadtschloss</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18320430793175071436</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>5</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9136898263267163859.post-2793000957043750303</id><published>2009-11-18T03:22:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-11-18T03:22:15.549-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Public lecture by French academic about the Stadtschloss</title><content type='html'>Françoise Vergès on the Museum of the Present&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Presentation and Debate&lt;br /&gt;Tuesday, November 24, 2009, 7 p.m.&lt;br /&gt;Hausvoigteiplatz 5-7, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Hörsaal 0109&lt;br /&gt;Organised by artefakte/Alexandertechnik&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After years of debate, the government coalition recently confirmed that &lt;br /&gt;the historic Berliner Schloss will be rebuilt on the demolished grounds &lt;br /&gt;of the Palast der Republik.&lt;br /&gt;As an architectural and urban development project, as well as the home &lt;br /&gt;for the planned Humboldt-Forum – Germany’s latest expression of &lt;br /&gt;reverence for the erudite Humboldt brothers and its version of the &lt;br /&gt;universal museum – we consider the project to be highly problematic. The &lt;br /&gt;entanglement of these two backward projects represents the apotheosis of &lt;br /&gt;restorative historical policies and they are both grounded in an &lt;br /&gt;under-problematized relationship to imperial and colonial histories. We &lt;br /&gt;want to confront these undertakings this event grounded in a &lt;br /&gt;postcolonial perspective that will formulate our critiques for the &lt;br /&gt;German and wider European context.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To this aim, we have invited Françoise Vergès, a lecturer at Goldsmith &lt;br /&gt;College at the University of London and political scientist, &lt;br /&gt;postcolonial theorist and distin-guished chair of the committee for the &lt;br /&gt;memory of slavery in France. Vergès has worked for many years on &lt;br /&gt;questions of memory politics and their relationship to historical &lt;br /&gt;violence and crimes and has proved herself to be a severe critic of &lt;br /&gt;national (istic) memory politics that ignore critical questions of &lt;br /&gt;exclusion, dominant perspec-tives and who has the right to speak. &lt;br /&gt;Currently, she is co-developing in La Réunion, a French “département” in &lt;br /&gt;the Indian Ocean, to develop a “museum of the present” that reflects the &lt;br /&gt;unique history of the island, as a colonial transit-area and settlement &lt;br /&gt;place.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Françoise Vergès will speak about this museum-in-progress, which shall &lt;br /&gt;neither reify history nor tell narratives of origin, but create a place &lt;br /&gt;for the struggles and controversies of contemporary society. Is such a &lt;br /&gt;museum able to overcome the logic of national representation? What does &lt;br /&gt;it mean to appropriate the concept of the museum in this context? How &lt;br /&gt;can one build a museum that challenges conventional hierarchies between &lt;br /&gt;visitors and display?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The working group artefakte is part of Alexandertechnik &lt;br /&gt;(www.humboldtforum.info), a Network of social activists, artists and &lt;br /&gt;academics, who reject the reconstruction of the castle as much as the &lt;br /&gt;current concept of the Humboldt-Forum.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The event will be held in English.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;DE:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Gegen das Humboldt-Forum&lt;br /&gt;und seine restaurative Vergangenheitspolitik&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Françoise Vergès on the Museum of the Present&lt;br /&gt;in La Réunion as a postcolonial perspective&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Vortrag und Diskussion&lt;br /&gt;Dienstag, 24 November 2009, 19 Uhr&lt;br /&gt;Hausvoigteiplatz 5-7, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Hörsaal 0109,&lt;br /&gt;Organisiert von artefakte/Alexandertechnik&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Soeben wurde der Neubau des Berliner Schlosses durch die neue &lt;br /&gt;Regierungskoalition bestätigt. Wir halten dieses Vorhaben für verfehlt – &lt;br /&gt;sowohl als architektonische und städtebauliche Rekonstruktion wie auch &lt;br /&gt;als Gehäuse für das geplante Humboldt-Forum, das in Referenz auf die &lt;br /&gt;gelehrten Gebrüder Humboldt als deutsche Version eines Universalmuseums &lt;br /&gt;entstehen soll. Die Verschränkung dieser beiden (rückwärts-gewandten) &lt;br /&gt;Projekte stellt eine restaurative Geschichtspolitik dar und gründet in &lt;br /&gt;einem unterproblematisierten Verhältnis zu imperialen und kolonialen &lt;br /&gt;historischen Projekten. Diesen Plänen möchten wir u.a. mit dieser &lt;br /&gt;Veranstaltung entgegentreten, die unsere Kritik in einer postkolonialen &lt;br /&gt;Perspektive für den deutschen und europäischen Kontext formulieren will.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Françoise Vergès ist Dozentin am Goldsmiths College der Universität &lt;br /&gt;London, Politik-wissenschaftlerin, postkoloniale Theoretikerin und &lt;br /&gt;mehrfach ausgezeichnete Vor-sitzende des Komitees für das Gedenken an &lt;br /&gt;die Sklaverei in Frankreich. Sie ist seit Jahren mit Fragen der &lt;br /&gt;Gedenkpolitik an historische Gewaltverbrechen befasst und zeigte sich &lt;br /&gt;als eine scharfe Kritikerin staatlicher (Erinnerungs)politiken, die die &lt;br /&gt;politisch relevanten Fragen nach Ausschluss, dominanten Perspektiven und &lt;br /&gt;Rede-rechten ausklammern oder entschärfen. In La Réunion, einem &lt;br /&gt;französischen Departement im indischen Ozean, ist sie Ko-Initiatorin &lt;br /&gt;eines Museums der Gegenwart, das der spezifischen Geschichte dieser &lt;br /&gt;Insel als kolonialem Transit- und Siedlungsgebiet entspricht. Mit dem &lt;br /&gt;Museum sollen weder Ursprungserzählungen geschaffen, noch Geschichte &lt;br /&gt;fixiert werden, vielmehr soll ein Ort entstehen, der Raum für die &lt;br /&gt;Dynamiken und Kontroversen der heutigen Gesellschaft bietet. Kann ein &lt;br /&gt;solches Projekt die Logik nationaler Repräsentation durchbrechen? Welche &lt;br /&gt;Rolle spielt dabei die Aneignung des Konzepts Museum? Wie kann ein &lt;br /&gt;Museum aussehen, das die Hierarchien zwischen Besucher_innen und &lt;br /&gt;Ausstellung durchbricht?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Die Arbeitsgruppe artefakte ist Teil von Alexandertechnik &lt;br /&gt;(www.humboldtforum.info), einem Netzwerk aus sozialen AktivistInnen, &lt;br /&gt;KünstlerInnen und AkademikerInnen, die sowohl den Schlosswiederaufbau, &lt;br /&gt;als auch das derzeit kursierende Konzept des Humboldt-Forums ablehnen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Die Veranstaltung wird in englischer Sprache stattfinden.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9136898263267163859-2793000957043750303?l=stopstadtschloss.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9136898263267163859/posts/default/2793000957043750303'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9136898263267163859/posts/default/2793000957043750303'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://stopstadtschloss.blogspot.com/2009/11/public-lecture-by-french-academic-about.html' title='Public lecture by French academic about the Stadtschloss'/><author><name>stopstadtschloss</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18320430793175071436</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9136898263267163859.post-7737298114200552491</id><published>2009-10-20T07:09:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-20T07:11:43.719-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.thelocal.de/articleImages/22643.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="362" src="http://www.thelocal.de/articleImages/22643.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;From TheLocal.de:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h1&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Protest tries to bounce reconstruction of Berlin city palace&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;h1&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"&gt;Hoping to rally opposition to plans to rebuild Berlin’s historic city palace, a colourful protest with an inflatable castle and paper crowns took place in the German capital on Saturday. &lt;a href="http://www.thelocal.de/society/20091017-22643.html"&gt;Read more here.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;h1&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;h1&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"&gt;Thanks to TheLocal.de and the Berliner Kurier for sending down reporters and photographers to cover the demo. Every other press organization ignored our demonstration, despite being well-informed about it.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;h1&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Strangely, the Berliner Morgenpost and other newspapers sent photographers to cover the construction of the Stadtschloss information center right next door to our demonstration, yet didn't bother to write a word or publish a photo about the jumping castle several meters away!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9136898263267163859-7737298114200552491?l=stopstadtschloss.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9136898263267163859/posts/default/7737298114200552491'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9136898263267163859/posts/default/7737298114200552491'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://stopstadtschloss.blogspot.com/2009/10/from-thelocal.html' title=''/><author><name>stopstadtschloss</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18320430793175071436</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9136898263267163859.post-7838417519665439873</id><published>2009-10-20T06:51:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-20T06:51:08.131-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Images from the demo</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ypXS_uUBaxk/St2_NWQw4KI/AAAAAAAAABE/gJrDfR4rnOM/s1600-h/IMG_2530.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ypXS_uUBaxk/St2_NWQw4KI/AAAAAAAAABE/gJrDfR4rnOM/s640/IMG_2530.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ypXS_uUBaxk/St2--oGhnSI/AAAAAAAAAA8/Uqu9zGguO-Q/s1600-h/IMG_2625.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ypXS_uUBaxk/St2--oGhnSI/AAAAAAAAAA8/Uqu9zGguO-Q/s640/IMG_2625.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ypXS_uUBaxk/St2-9SEq0nI/AAAAAAAAAA0/czD_MU0jnQA/s1600-h/Schloss+Mit+Lustig+004.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ypXS_uUBaxk/St2-9SEq0nI/AAAAAAAAAA0/czD_MU0jnQA/s640/Schloss+Mit+Lustig+004.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ypXS_uUBaxk/St2-155w5NI/AAAAAAAAAAs/pdfCqMeGwEU/s1600-h/Schloss+Mit+Lustig+014.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ypXS_uUBaxk/St2-155w5NI/AAAAAAAAAAs/pdfCqMeGwEU/s640/Schloss+Mit+Lustig+014.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ypXS_uUBaxk/St2_QFRvcQI/AAAAAAAAABM/4ebKOt5L_oM/s1600-h/IMG_2546.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ypXS_uUBaxk/St2_QFRvcQI/AAAAAAAAABM/4ebKOt5L_oM/s640/IMG_2546.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ypXS_uUBaxk/St2_SQOsDyI/AAAAAAAAABU/jPIttHaVEOI/s1600-h/IMG_2568.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ypXS_uUBaxk/St2_SQOsDyI/AAAAAAAAABU/jPIttHaVEOI/s640/IMG_2568.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ypXS_uUBaxk/St2_TwZ2CeI/AAAAAAAAABc/oniM3e8Qw5k/s1600-h/IMG_2583.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ypXS_uUBaxk/St2_TwZ2CeI/AAAAAAAAABc/oniM3e8Qw5k/s640/IMG_2583.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ypXS_uUBaxk/St2_XtBWxoI/AAAAAAAAABk/jX10dVwkpZw/s1600-h/IMG_2596.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ypXS_uUBaxk/St2_XtBWxoI/AAAAAAAAABk/jX10dVwkpZw/s640/IMG_2596.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Images by Tobias Baur and Joel Alas&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9136898263267163859-7838417519665439873?l=stopstadtschloss.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9136898263267163859/posts/default/7838417519665439873'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9136898263267163859/posts/default/7838417519665439873'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://stopstadtschloss.blogspot.com/2009/10/images-from-demo.html' title='Images from the demo'/><author><name>stopstadtschloss</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18320430793175071436</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ypXS_uUBaxk/St2_NWQw4KI/AAAAAAAAABE/gJrDfR4rnOM/s72-c/IMG_2530.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9136898263267163859.post-3693411045115655854</id><published>2009-10-09T05:07:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-16T06:06:54.424-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Press Release: Stop Stadtschloss</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ypXS_uUBaxk/Ss8neTyCqkI/AAAAAAAAAAk/1ecdQ6Xe3fM/s1600-h/schloss+flyer+small.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ypXS_uUBaxk/Ss8neTyCqkI/AAAAAAAAAAk/1ecdQ6Xe3fM/s320/schloss+flyer+small.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;DE:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Schloss Mit Lustig Cancel The Castle!&lt;br /&gt;Kundgebung gegen das Stadtschloss&lt;br /&gt;Samstag, 17. Oktober , 15.00 Uhr&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Berliner BürgerInnen rufen die Verantwortlichen auf die Pläne für das falsche Stadtschloss im Zentrum der Stadt auzugeben, da es mehr als ein halbe Milliarde Euro kosten soll.&lt;br /&gt;Am Samstag, den 17. Oktober wird sich eine Gruppe von Demonstranten auf dem Schlossplatz am Humboldt Forum versammeln.&lt;br /&gt;Es wird eine farbenfrohe Kundgebung mit Musik und Hüpfburg zum Thema geben.&lt;br /&gt;Das geplante Stadtschloss ist reine Geldverschwendung. &lt;br /&gt;Besonders in Zeiten der Finanzkrise und wenn in Berlin andere wichtige, schon&amp;nbsp; bestehenden Einrichtungen das Geld gekürzt wird und im baufälligen Zustand vor sich hin vegetieren.&lt;br /&gt;Als Alternative soll der Schlossplatz in seinem jetzigen Zustand bleiben und als öffentliche Fläche oder Park genutzt werden.&lt;br /&gt;Die Demonstranten nehmen das Scheitern des Architekturwettbewerbs für das geplante Stadtschloss zum Anlass, das Thema wieder neu ins öffentliche Bewusstsein zu bringen.&lt;br /&gt;Nachdem das Projekt keinen Architekten hat, wird die Stadt Berlin aufgefordert ihre Agenda neu zu gestallten und sich erneuert die Fragen zu stellen, ob Berlin wirklich dieses Vorhaben tragen kann und will oder eben nicht.&lt;br /&gt;Es gibt genügend bestehende Gebäude in der Stadt, in denen die möglichen Mieter öffentlicher Institutionen wie Bibliotheken, Universitätsfakultäten und Museen unterkommen können- und das bedeutend nachhaltiger und preisgünstiger.&lt;br /&gt;Der Schlossplatz war seit langem ein Ort, an dem Symbole der Macht errichtet wurden. Nun will eine kleine, aber mächtige Gruppe von Geschäftsleuten ein weiteres Symbol der Macht dort errichten.&lt;br /&gt;Schuß damit! Der Schlossplatz soll befreit werden von diesen Symbolen und einfach leer gelassen werden. &lt;br /&gt;BürgerInnen und GegnerInnen des geplanten Stadtschlosses sind eingeladen am 17. Oktober um 15 Uhr sich am Schlossplatz einzufinden. Friedlich, mit Spaß und Freude kommt in königlichen Gewändern und Transpis und besetzt, nutzt&amp;nbsp; und definiert als Volk euren Schlossplatz neu.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;EN:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Schloss Mit Lustig Cancel The Castle!&lt;br /&gt;Demonstration against the Stadtschloss&lt;br /&gt;Samstag October 17, 15.00&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Berlin citizens will call on the authorities to abandon their plans to build a fake castle in the center of the city at a cost of more than half a billion euros.&lt;br /&gt;On Saturday October 17, a group of demonstrators will gather at the Schlossplatz, the site of the proposed ‘Humboldt-Forum’.&lt;br /&gt;They will hold a colourful demonstration featuring music and a jumping castle.&lt;br /&gt;Their main message is that the Stadtschloss is an unnecessary waste of money, especially during a financial crisis, at a time when many other services in Berlin are under-funded and in a state of disrepair.&lt;br /&gt;Instead, demonstrators propose that the Schlossplatz be left in its current empty state to be enjoyed as a public park. &lt;br /&gt;Demonstrators have decided to act now due to the recently-exposed mishandling of the architectural competition. Now that the project is without an architect, it is a good time for the city to completely reconsider whether it wants or needs this building at all.&lt;br /&gt;The public institutions that have been proposed as tenants of the Stadtschloss – including the city library, university faculties and museum departments – can accommodated in other existing buildings at a much lower cost.&lt;br /&gt;The Schlossplatz has long been a site where symbols of power have been erected - first the power of the Prussian rulers, then the Socialist authorities. Now a small but powerful group of business people want to build yet another symbol of power there.&amp;nbsp; Instead of this constant adjustment of history, demonstrators call for the location to be left empty and free of symbols.&lt;br /&gt;Citizens who are also against the Stadtschloss can join the demonstration at the Schlossplatz at 15.00 on Saturday August 17. Organizers are inviting the public to bring their own signs, to dress as royalty, and to enjoy a playful, peaceful demonstration.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9136898263267163859-3693411045115655854?l=stopstadtschloss.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9136898263267163859/posts/default/3693411045115655854'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9136898263267163859/posts/default/3693411045115655854'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://stopstadtschloss.blogspot.com/2009/10/de-schloss-mit-lustig-cancel-castle.html' title='Press Release: Stop Stadtschloss'/><author><name>stopstadtschloss</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18320430793175071436</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ypXS_uUBaxk/Ss8neTyCqkI/AAAAAAAAAAk/1ecdQ6Xe3fM/s72-c/schloss+flyer+small.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9136898263267163859.post-5057955003823081578</id><published>2009-10-08T03:31:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-08T05:29:56.330-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Samstag Oct 17 - Kundgebung mit hüpfburg - Demo with jumping castle</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ypXS_uUBaxk/Ss2-wUJytlI/AAAAAAAAAAU/6jORRfpDVMo/s1600-h/schloss+poster.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ypXS_uUBaxk/Ss2-wUJytlI/AAAAAAAAAAU/6jORRfpDVMo/s400/schloss+poster.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Join us at the Schlossplatz for a protest action against the Stadtschloss on Saturday October 17 at 3pm.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;We will have a jumping castle on site for you to play on - because the only good castle is a jumping castle! We will also have DJs playing some nice electro-techno music.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;Come dressed as kings, queens or nobility. Bring signs to demonstrate your disapproval.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="color: #0b5394;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;Why demonstrate?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;-&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b style="color: red;"&gt; Because the Stadtschloss is unnecessary:&lt;/b&gt; We already have enough unused buildings in Berlin, so there's no need to build more. The institutions, museums and libraries that may eventually be housed in the Stadtschloss can easily be accommodated elsewhere in the city for much less money.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;- &lt;/span&gt;&lt;b style="color: red;"&gt;It is a waste of money:&lt;/b&gt; Currently it is budgeted at half a billion euros, but we all know that public projects always cost more than their budgets. This, at a time when Berlin can't even afford a properly working S-Bahn system!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;- &lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;The decision making process is corrupted:&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/b&gt;The competition to decide the architect was found to be improperly conducted. &lt;a href="http://www.zitty.de/magazin/49111/"&gt;See here.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;- &lt;/span&gt;&lt;b style="color: red;"&gt;It is a symbol of imperial power:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;The Stadtschloss was originally the palace of the Prussian kings and a symbol of their imperial power. It was then destroyed and replaced by the Palast Der Republik, a symbol of Soviet power. Now, a group of rich and (mostly) west Germans want to resurrect the old symbol of power there. Instead of this constant replacing of power symbols, we want to see an empty park, free of symbols.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #0b5394; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #0b5394; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;What should be build there instead?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b style="color: red;"&gt;Nothing!&lt;/b&gt; The Stadtschloss should remain how it currently is - a picturesque empty green space for the citizens of the city to enjoy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #0b5394; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;What should be done with the money?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b style="color: red;"&gt;Lots can be done with half a billion euros:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;Berlin doesn't have a properly working S-Bahn system. Many of its citizens are unemployed due to the lack of sustainable industries here. There is an endless list of projects that could be funded with this money. We don't claim to advocate on behalf of any alternative project, but wish simply to say that spending money on an unnecessary castle in the middle of a financial crisis is a stupid idea.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9136898263267163859-5057955003823081578?l=stopstadtschloss.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9136898263267163859/posts/default/5057955003823081578'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9136898263267163859/posts/default/5057955003823081578'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://stopstadtschloss.blogspot.com/2009/10/samstag-oct-17-kundbegung-mit-hupfburg.html' title='Samstag Oct 17 - Kundgebung mit hüpfburg - Demo with jumping castle'/><author><name>stopstadtschloss</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18320430793175071436</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ypXS_uUBaxk/Ss2-wUJytlI/AAAAAAAAAAU/6jORRfpDVMo/s72-c/schloss+poster.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry></feed>
