"that went before": "Try a little tenderness," The Economist, Mar. 30, 1996, 91.
"not to be discovered anew": "Die Baustelle der Wiedervereinigung," Die Zeit, Oct. 8, 1993.
"New Jersey Meadowlands": Paul Goldberger, "Reimagining Berlin," New York Times Magazine, Feb. 5, 1995, 45.
"a new country": Peter Conrad, "Rebuilding Berlin," New Yorker, April 28/May 5, 1997, 225.
"vanishes in a catastrophe": Ibid., 223.
"living" part of the city: "Platz für Berlin," Die Zeit, Oct. 18, 1991.
under Napoleon III: "Ein Baron Haussmann unserer Tage," Süddeutsche Zeitung, Sept. 21, 1993.
"must look like Berlin": Quoted in Goldberger, "Reimagining Berlin," 47.
continuity in the Spree metropolis: For Siedler’s view, see his essay collection, Phoenix im Sand. Glanz und Elend der Hauptstadt (Berlin, 1998).
"New Teutonia": "Heimatkunde für Neuteutonia," Der Spiegel, 42/1994, 48–59.
"develop the city": Quoted in Goldberger, "Reimagining Berlin," 48.
"are simply embarrassing": Quoted in "Heimatkunde für Neuteutonia," 48.
"take on the responsibility": "The Capital Builders," The Economist, Nov. 9, 1991, 20.
"smugness in one step": Goldberger, "Reimagining Berlin, 49.
"architecturally lost": "Architektonisch ist Berlin verloren," Süddeutsche Zeitung, July 9, 1994.
"and devotional height": Quoted in David B. Dennis, Beethoven in German Politics, 1870–1989 (New Haven, 1996), 168.
"international airport space": "Once Again, A City Rewards the Walker," New York Times, April 11, 1999.
"social thickness": "Das seltsame Gefühl, nicht in Berlin zu sein," Der Tagesspiegel, June 6, 1999.
"Marlene, Go Home!"; "find a home": "Heim in die Pfütze," Der Spiegel, 32/1997, 96–99; also "Marlene’s Street of Dreams? To the Barricades!," New York Times, Dec. 16, 1996.
"Salzkirchen und Gelsengitter": "Wie in Gelsengitter die Fussgängerzone," Süddeutsche Zeitung, April 19, 1995.
Bahnhof Friedrichstrasse: "Langsam heilt die tiefe Narbe," Die Zeit, March 29, 1999; also Ladd, Ghosts of Berlin, 15–16.
"I miscalculated": "Mauerstrasse ist nicht Wall Street," Süddeutsche Zeitung, May 8, 1998.
"not bold": Quoted in Goldberger, "Reimagining Berlin," 48.
"salon of the republic"; "without air in it": "Was wird aus dem Pariser Platz?" Die Zeit, Feb. 25, 1994.
Brandenburg Gate: Ladd, Ghosts of Berlin, 72–81; "Glanzvolle Geschichte, ungewisse Zukunft," Der Tagesspiegel, Feb. 24, 1994; also Willmuth Arenhövel and Ralf Bothe, Das Brandenburger Tor: Eine Monographie (Berlin, 1991).
Prussian Academy of Arts: "Lastige Zeugen," Süddeutsche Zeitung, May 10, 1995.
Hotel Adlon: "Das Vermächtnis des schönen Gigolo," Süddeutsche Zeitung, May 17, 1995.
"some French flair": Quoted in Christian Bahr and Günter Schneider, Hauptstadtbau (Berlin, 1997), 18.
"go another way"; "not make sense": Quoted in "Flurry Raised on Embassy in New Berlin," New York Times, Feb. 10, 1996.
shortage of funds: "Is U.S. Too Poor to Join New Germany’s Fun?" New York Times, April 7, 1997.
"preferably without windows": "Am besten, ohne Fenster," Der Spiegel, 5/1999, 46–47; "Germans Are Balking at U.S. Embassy Blueprint," New York Times, Oct. 28, 1999.
"rival nostalgias": Ladd, Ghosts of Berlin, 59.
"socialist-usurped city center": "Monotone Klotzigkeit," Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Feb. 4, 1995.
no date was fixed: "Das Schloß als Symbol," Der Spiegel, 29/1998, 158–163.
"popular amusement"; "humane and friendly": "Ein wahres Volkshaus," Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Feb. 4, 1995.
reburial of Frederick the Great: "Aktion Sarg und Asche," Der Spiegel, 33/1991, 28–47.
"resignation": Siedler, Pheonix im Sand, 116–132.
von Boddien: See "Das Schloß als Symbol."
"richly presumptuous": "Die Fassaden-Lüge, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Aug. 8/9, 1998.
"simply prettier": "Milliarde für die Seele," Der Spiegel, 6/1999, 17.
truly unified at alclass="underline" "Nationaldenkmal, Ten Years After," Süddeutsche Zeitung, May 20/21. 1998.
"has been done to it"; "feel comfortable": "Das malträtierte Herz der Stadt," Süddeutsche Zeitung, March 20/21, 1993.
"architecture of the century": "Die planerische Zukunft Berlin’s," Süddeutsche Zeitung, Nov. 12, 1994.
"left to reconstruct": "Capital gains," The Economist, Feb. 19, 1994, 99.
identity of its own: Bruno Flierl, Berlin baut um—Wessen wird die Stadt?, 105–106.
"buildings shape us": Quoted in "Die Macht der Mauern," Der Spiegel, 22/1998, 57.
"behind bureaucratic desks": Quoted in ibid., 54.
"require a new building": Quoted in Wise, Capital Dilemma, 92.
"a difficult history": Quoted in ibid., 93.
like a fortress: "Das Monstrum von Mitte," Süddeutsche Zeitung, Oct. 28, 1988.
"simple visitors": Günter Grass, Ein weites Feld (Munich, 1998), 66.
"Reichskanzler Adolf Hitler": "Macht der Mauern," Der Spiegel, 22/1998, 57.
"tear down the building": Quoted in Wise, Capital Dilemma, 107.
"out of date and obsolete": Quoted in Reuth, Goebbels, 173.
one block east: Demps, Wilhelmstrasse, 219–222.
Bendlerblock: "Macht der Mauern," 68; Ladd, Ghosts of Berlin, 149–151.
"underscore that federalism": Quoted in "The Reichstag: Just a Chamber of Bad Memories?" New York Times, July 31, 1991.
kaiser’s uniform: Wise, Capital Dilemma, 121.
"open-minded character": Quoted in Ladd, Ghosts of Berlin, 94.
"around the world": "Christo Is Ready to Wrap the Reichstag," New York Times, Jan. 7, 1993.
"open future": Quoted in ibid. See also "Dem Volke Staat zeigen," Der Spiegel, 8/1993, 28–30.
dome debate: "Dom des Volkes," Der Spiegel, 15/1999, 44–48.
Reichstag graffiti: See ibid., and "Verordnete Geschichtsvergessenheit," Der Tagesspiegel, July 8, 1999.
"born on those seats": Quoted in Jane Kramer, "Living with Berlin," New Yorker, July 5, 1999, 58.
Reichstag name: "What’s in a name?" The Economist, April 17, 1999, 55.
"Berlin republic possible"; "optimistic or happy": Quoted in "With Smoked Salmon and Beer, Berlin Greets Parliament," New York Times, April 20, 1999.
"conquer it again?": Quoted in "Macht der Mauern," Der Spiegel, 22/1998, 69.
"world is watching"; "rebuild a capital": Quoted in Wise, Capital Dilemma, 60, 61.
"rednecks of the Rhine": Ellen Posner, "Hell’s Capital," Atlantic Monthly, July 1944, 95.
Spreebogen competition: Wise, Capital Dilemma, 65–67.
"modesty and dignity": Quoted in ibid., 72.
Federal Chancellery: Ibid., 72–79.
"as much as he did": Kramer, "Living with Berlin," 54.