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From: "Architexturez." <admin-in@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 18:28:23 +0530
*By Richard Bernstein* The New York Times
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2005
But then the fire occurred, and that, perhaps paradoxically, has brought
a renewed interest in redesigning Weimar, creating a 21st-century
concept for an 18th-century city.
The aspiration is to unite what are called the Weimar Classics - from
its great Goethe and Schiller and Nietzsche archives (plus the graves of
all three great figures of German philosophy and literature) to its
immense art collections to its Bauhaus Museum - as a sort of restoration
of Weimar as an old idea of Europe that fell victim to 200 years or so
of nationalist wars and totalitarian experiments.
"Schiller said the German idea is not to be strong with the sword but
strong with the word," Hellmut Seemann, president of a newly reorganized
Weimar Classics and Art Collections Foundation, which is in charge of
the city's cultural institutions, said in an interview.
Seemann was providing not just a brief history of Weimar but also a
history of the idea of Weimar,...
cont'd...
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/12/15/news/weimar.php