Parliament of Trees

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Memorial plaque , Große Querallee, Berlin-Tiergarten

The Parliament of Trees (also Parliament of Trees against War and Violence ) is a memorial place for the victims of the Berlin Wall that was set up on November 9, 1990 by the action artist Ben Wagin . In November 2017 the memorial site was placed under a preservation order.

installation

Wagin set up the memorial site on the site of the former death strip on the eastern bank of the Spree opposite the Reichstag building in Berlin-Mitte . There he arranged memorial stones, pictures, posters and parts of the border security systems. Different artists worked on the exhibits. Trees and flowers were also planted. The background of the installation was formed by L-shaped wall segments from the last generation of the Wall, on which the years between the construction of the Wall and the fall of the Wall were painted with the number of victims of the Wall in each year. There are also other motifs on the back walls. On October 3, 1997, Wagin lit 999 torches that simulated the course of the wall.

modification

Because of the move of the Federal Government from Bonn to Berlin in the context of the Reichstag various federal buildings were in band of the Federal rebuilt. This includes the Marie-Elisabeth-Lüders-Haus , which was partly built on the site of the Parliament of Trees. The Parliament of Trees was therefore downsized and trees were moved. A publicly accessible installation made of wall segments from the Parliament of Trees was set up in the Bundestag building. The Parliament of Trees is accessible from the Schiffbauerdamm promenade .

There are currently (2019) some efforts to permanently secure the existence of the Parliament of Trees and the only remaining section of the wall in the city center at the original location. In November 2018, for example, the building commission of the parliamentary council of elders decided to separate the site from its own area portfolio and transfer it to the State of Berlin.

Web links

Commons : Parliament of Trees  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wall memorial "Parliament of Trees" under monument protection. In: Süddeutsche.de. November 6, 2017, accessed August 25, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b Annette Kaminsky, BpB: Places of Remembrance: Memorial signs, memorials and museums on the dictatorship in the Soviet occupation zone and GDR , p. 105
  3. ↑ a b berlin.de: Parliament of Trees Memorial / Wall Memorial in the Marie-Elisabeth-Lüders-Haus ( Memento of the original from February 5, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.berlin.de
  4. ↑ Claudius Prößer: artist Ben Wagin is so around the 90: tree spade examines sponsors . In: The daily newspaper: taz . February 27, 2019, ISSN  0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed February 27, 2019]).

Coordinates: 52 ° 31 '15.9 "  N , 13 ° 22' 39.5"  E