Abstract In 1990, Joachim Fest’s plea for the reconstruction of the Berlin City Palace unchained one of the most heated architectural debates in German history, a debate that has been raging on to this day. This so-called Stadtschlossdebatte not only testifies to the remarkable revival of the Prussian legacy after German Reunification, it is also symptomatic of the difficult search for identity by the new Berlin Republic. With its prevalent rhetoric of the ‘lost’ or ‘empty center,’ the debate is particularly suitable for an analysis of the imaginary mechanisms and strategies of fictionalization that are necessary for a political community to constitute itself. By means of a rhetorical analysis of the reconstruction debate, I argue that Prussia functions as a mythological relict in our alleged society without myths. In this regard, special attention is devoted to the Schlosssimulation of 1993 by the French artist Catherine Feff. Functioning as a phantasmatic projection screen, this fake city castle is used here as a starting point for a reflection on the constitutive relation between community and fiction. The article concludes with a coda on the Wrapped Reichstag by Christo and Jeanne-Claude.

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柏林宫：神话中贫乏时代的神话遗迹

摘要 1990 年，约阿希姆·费斯特 (Joachim Fest) 请求重建柏林城市宫殿，解开了德国历史上最激烈的建筑争论之一，这场争论一直持续到今天。这场所谓的 Stadtschlossdebatte 不仅证明了德国统一后普鲁士遗产的显着复兴，也是新柏林共和国难以寻找身份的征兆。由于其流行的“失去的”或“空心的中心”的修辞，这场辩论特别适合分析一个政治共同体构成自身所必需的虚构化机制和策略。通过对重建辩论的修辞分析，我认为普鲁士在我们所谓的没有神话的社会中作为神话遗物发挥作用。在这方面，1993 年法国艺术家 Catherine Feff 对 Schlosssimulation 进行了特别关注。作为虚幻的投影屏幕，这座假城市城堡在这里被用作反思社区与小说之间构成关系的起点。文章以克里斯托和珍妮-克劳德对包裹式国会大厦的结尾结尾。