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PRESS RELEASE| 21 March 2024

Blown Away: The Palace of the Republic – Special exhibition and series of events in the Humboldt Forum

Special exhibition and events / Programme at the Humboldt Forum
13 April 2024: Public performance Spatial Play. Sound and Steps at the Outline Marking of the Palace of the Republic
17 May 2024: Opening of the exhibition Blown Away: The Palace of the Republic (until 16 February 2025)
17-18/20/22-24/31 May 2024: Theatre spectacle: Build up! Tear down!

Fifty years ago the Palace of the Republic was built on the site now occupied by the Humboldt Forum. This vanished building is one of the year’s focuses for the Stiftung Humboldt Forum im Berliner Schloss, which is dedicating the programme Blown Away: The Palace of the Republic to it. It centres on a large special exhibition, the theatre spectacular Build Up! Tear Down!, and a diverse series of events and educational offerings, including themed days, workshops, and virtual reality presentations. If you would like to learn more about the size and exact location of the Palace of the Republic, come to the performance taking place at the Humboldt Forum on 13 April 2024. The outline of the Palace of the Republic will be marked out on the ground for the event. The virtual discovery tour “Re-Set: The Palace of the Republic in Augmented Reality” will launch the same day. You can access it using your mobile phone by scanning a QR code.

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East Berlin – Palace of the Republic – Window front with the state emblem of the GDR
© bpk / Gerhard Kiesling
Arerial view of Palast der Republik, Marx-Engels-Forum and Fernsehturm.
© bpk / Interflug-Luftbildarchiv
Palace of the Republic
© Wikimedia Commons / Istvan, CC-BY-SA 3.0
Arrival of coaches in front of the brightly lit Palace of the Republic
© Harry Hirschfeld / Deutsches Historisches Museum / digitale Reproduktion: Stiftung Humboldt Forum im Berliner Schloss
View over the Marx-Engels Forum to the Palace of the Republic
© Harry Hirschfeld, Deutsches Historisches Museums, digitale Reproduktion: Stiftung Humboldt Forum im Berliner Schloss
View over the Marx-Engels Forum to the Palace of the Republic
© Harry Hirschfeld, Deutsches Historisches Museums, digitale Reproduktion: Stiftung Humboldt Forum im Berliner Schloss
View of the bar and guests on the 3rd floor of the foyer in the Palace of the Republic
© Hartmut Schorsch, Deutsches Historisches Museum, digitale Reproduktion: Stiftung Humboldt Forum im Berliner Schloss
View of the "Espresso" café in the Palace of the Republic
© Abt. Öffentlichkeitsarbeit, Palast der Republik
Milk bar in the Palace of the Republic
© Abt. Öffentlichkeitsarbeit, Palast der Republik
Stairs behind the entrance to the Palace of the Republic on Marx-Engels-Platz, date of photograph: 01/05/1976,
© bpk / Herbert Fiebig
View into the staircase hall of the Palace of the Republic Date of photograph: 1970s
© bpk / Max Ittenbach
Sculpture "The Glass Flower" by glass artists Reginald Richter and Richard O. Wilhelm, date of photograph: n.d. (1970/80s)
© Gläserne Blume: Reginald Richter und Richard Wilhelm, bpk / Gerhard Kiesling
Performance by an FDJ singing group in the Great Hall of the Palace of the Republic, view from the stage into the audience
© Deutsches Historisches Museum / digitale Reproduktion: Stiftung Humboldt Forum im Berliner Schloss
Demonstrators in front of the Palast der Republik on 4 November 1989
© bpk / Bundesstiftung zur Aufarbeitung der SED Diktatur / Klaus Mehner
Volkskammer meeting in the Palace of the Republic on 13 November 1989
© picture alliance / ZB / Paul Glaser
Aerial view, view of the dummy palace and the Palace of the Republic
© picture-alliance / akg-images / Reimer Wulf
The first visitors take a dinghy ride through the flooded Palace of the Republic in Berlin on 3 September 2004.
Demonstration against the demolition of the Palace of the Republic
© Wikipedia / Mazbln, creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/de/
Excursion boat on the Spree in front of the remains of the lift shafts and staircases of the demolished Palace of the Republic
© picture alliance / zb | Dieter Palm
Schlossplatz in Berlin – centre with Humboldtbox , on the right the viewing platform with a computer graphic of the planned city palace.
© picture alliance / photothek | Jonas Fischer
Excerpts from the virtual model of the Palace of the Republic by the Cyberräuber
© Visualisierung des Palasts der Republik: Cyberräuber
Visual of the exhibition "Hin und Weg. The Palace of the Republic is Present", which opens at the Humboldt Forum in 2024
© Stiftung Humboldt Forum im Berliner Schloss, Foto: picture alliance / imageBROKER / dirk enters
Visual of the exhibition "Hin und Weg. The Palace of the Republic is Present", which opens at the Humboldt Forum in 2024
© Stiftung Humboldt Forum im Berliner Schloss; bpk / Gerhard Kiesling