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guinea fowl as the hors d’oeuvre, pikeperch as the main course and fruit preserves from the palace garden for dessert. After the meal, the president and the chancellor descended the outside staircase to [...] Subsequent to this visit, Hans-Joachim Giersberg, director general of the Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation Berlin-Brandenburg at the time, was successful in gaining acceptance for the rule that

The Nazi Lord Mayor Julius Lippert at Glienicke Julius Lippert, chief editor of “Angriff”, the Nazi newspaper for the Berlin district under Goebbels, lived at Glienicke from 1936 to 1940. He had acqui

lord mayor of Potsdam, Brunhilde Hanke, as well as the director general of the State Palaces and Gardens Potsdam-Sanssouci, Joachim Mückenberger. As a memento of his stay at Cecilienhof, Waldheim received

Palace in Potsdam. During the third year of the war, the administration for the State Palaces and Gardens, under the auspices of director Ernst Gall, continued in their endeavors to evacuate important works

The Last Guest of State of the German Democratic Republic at the Palace Mikhail Gorbachev was the GDR’s last guest of state to visit Schönhausen House Mikhail Gorbachev made a memorable and quite mome

The Marble Gallery: A Site in the Service of National Socialist Representation The Prussian State Council’s first work session took place at the New Palace’s Marble Gallery on 16 September 1933. Just

The Quadriga – Berlin’s Emblem After the victory over Prussia and his march into Berlin in 1806, France’s Emperor Napoleon I had the Quadriga atop of the Brandenburg Gate ‒ the four-horse drawn chario

Kowtowing before the Kaiser The Grotto Hall was the Site of a Staged Humiliation On September 4, 1901, the Grotto Hall at the New Palace provided the setting for a special purpose. Prince Chun, a brot

Beethoven was Here! Was Ludwig van Beethoven the illegitimate son of King Frederick William II? This rumor was so persistent that it made it into print in the third edition of Friedrich Arnold Brockha

“Победа - хорошое слово”, “Victory is a fine word” Two sets of Cyrillic graffiti, “Victory is a fine word” and the year “1945”, which Soviet soldiers scratched onto the walls of the Blue Gallery, are

The Meeting of Three Kings ‒ Porcelain for Soldiers In July 1709, an unprecedented and sensational encounter took place when three European monarchs met with one another at the same time. At this hist

Shielded – The Reception of the Shah of Iran Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi at Charlottenburg Palace Charlottenburg Palace, June 2, 1967, 6:30 pm June 2, 1967 is a key date for the former Federal Republic