"A building, which reflects the disruption of the last 70 years of German history like almost no other in Germany"
Professor Rudolf Steinberg, 26th October 2001 at the opening of Frankfurt University's new faculty of arts, housed in the IG-Farben-Haus
This blog will document some of the research I am doing relating to the IG-Farben-Haus, which now forms the focal point for the Westend Campus of Johann Wolfgang Goethe University.
My second post will document some of the history of the building, involving big business and corruption, slave workers, military occupation, terrorism and libraries.
Quote: Steinberg, Rudolf »Aus dem Palast des Geldes, später dem Palast der militärischen Macht sollte der Palast des Geistes werden…« (‘From a palace for money, later palace for military power, shall emerge a palace for the mind”) (2001) in Breyer, Ralf und Lentes, Lucia (eds.) (2004) ›Dieser Ort ist Geschichte‹ Einweihung des Campus Westend. Themen und Texte . Frankfurt am Main: Das Präsidum der Universität Frankfurt, 59-64
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