, but is a masterpiece of space efficiency: what stretches over 1.50 metres in length on a bassoon – the tube – has here been coiled into a spiral and packed inside a handy case. You cannot see the
thousand pounds, this suitcase-sized instrument, priced at around 1,000 pounds, was a sensation. From air to electronic sound: Lyricon At the 1979 ‘Ars Electronica’, Bruno Spoerri won first prize in
through to Andy Warhol and Gerhard Richter. It holds works spanning 1,000 years of art, cultural and media history, from the Middle Ages to the present day. The collection comprises some 550,000 prints
. The Friends of the Egyptian Museum, which at the time had over 1,000 members, was, after all, a purely West Berlin club! And when I announced to them in our in-house magazine that the opening of the
director from 1990 to 1995 Elstner: I started work in Dahlem on 1 September 1991. A colleague showed me round the building. Only a few colleagues were a bit reserved. But the ice soon melted and
the Bode Museum or whether the new building would have to be moved 1:1 from the Kulturforum to the former barracks site opposite Museum Island. All water under the bridge – just like the idea of moving
with the communities of origin and to share the insights gained. 1st stop EASTER ISLAND Concerned about the loss of Rapa Nui culture, pianist Mahani Teave returned to Easter Island after completing
structures as they were before reunification. We only merged them on 1 January 1992. We avoided the impression of a simple takeover by the West. In all cases where a Western director had to be retained in
imagined what turbulent times lay ahead. He took up his post on 1 April 1990 and tackled the unexpected challenge with incredible energy. I later learnt from him that my East Berlin director had