The pictures were taken by Martin Piske. All of them are students of the 13th grade of Gymnasium Steglitz. Mr Naumann, you were living and working in New York for a longer time.
Berlin has difficulties accepting that.
New York has always been a place of immigration. New York's offerings in the field of music, opera and ballet are extremely expensive and therefore not accessible to ordinary citizens. Your office for media and culture has been created in 1998. Germany's constitution has divided the care for cultural institutions between the cities, the states and the federal government. Our constitution assigns a number of cultural competences to the federal government.