Urban Landscapes: Berlin – An Online Exhibition

“Three political parties, in and out of bed with each other like drunken intellectuals, fifteen warring Cabinet Ministers in Bonn alone, and sixty million separate egos. All making deals with each other and breaking them. All looking round at every moment to see the expression on everyone else’s face. All trying to guess which way everyone else will jump. All out for themselves, and all totally dependent on everyone else. Not one Germany. Sixty million separate Germanies. The tower of Babel!” (Michael Frayn, Democracy: A Play)

“Now what confronts us? Two Germanies, broken apart like the old shattered masonry. This is the material out of which we have to build the world we’re going to be living in tomorrow. This is the only material we possess – the two Germanies as they actually are. Riddled with doubts and suspicions on both sides. If the building we’re creating is going to stay up, we have to make sure that this fragile stuff will bear the load we’re placing upon it. We have somehow to find ways for the doubtful and the fearful on both sides to accept what we’re doing” (Michael Frayn, Democracy).