The Parliament of Trees
The Parliament of Trees—also called *Parlament der Bäume*—marks the deaths tied to the Berlin Wall, installed on 9 November 1990 by performance artist Ben Wagin. It was placed on the eastern shore of the Spree, on the site of the former death strip opposite Germany’s parliament buildings—so the memorial occupies the same river edge where the wall’s lethal logic once played out. Wagin assembled the memorial as an open-air exhibition: memorial stones, pictures, posters, and border-defence remnants, with different artists contributing materials. Trees and flowers were planted, while L-shaped wall pieces formed a backdrop. On them, dates of the wall’s construction and its fall were painted alongside the number of death victims for the relevant years. The installation also kept adding gestures: on 3 October 1997, Wagin lit 999 torches to trace the Berlin Wall’s course. …
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