Breaking a taboo – The dinner for US President Bill Clinton On May 13, 1998, at Sanssouci Palace a taboo in historical preservation was broken. After more than a hundred years, the Marble Hall of Frederick [...] again became the scene of a festive dinner. Only once before, subsequent to the death of the last Sanssouci resident, Queen Elisabeth of Prussia in 1873, had the Prussian court made an exception: In June [...] express wish to honor Bill Clinton, the president of the United States of America, with a luncheon at Sanssouci during his second state visit to Germany. Clinton was visiting the new federal states for the first