Following a long period of restoration work that included an extension, the year 2013 has seen the reopening of the Lenbachhaus in Munich. Goethe.de talked to the director designate, Matthias Mühling....
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"Some find smearing the Solidarity revolution and its heroes by means of the secret police archives heroic. Others think it is more like throwing a hand grenade into a cesspool:
some get killed, some injured, and everyone is left soiled and smelly.
This is how we will celebrate the 25th anniversary of the August
revolution: bruised, smeared and frustrated. Can't we learn to speak
sensibly about the things we have had the courage to achieve?"
By Adam Michnik
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