Published by Hatje Cantz. Text by Knut Ebeling, Manfred Schmalriede.
For the past 17 years, German photographer Christian von Steffelin (born 1963) has been documenting the drastic changes that have occurred in East Berlin since Germany's reunification. From 1994 to 2009, the artist paid special attention to the demise of the Palast der Republik building, charting the former center of power's individual stages of decay.