XIIIth INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS on PERSONAL CONSTRUCT PSYCHOLOGY Berlin, July 26th to 31st, 1999

THE PERSON IN SOCIETY: CHALLENGES TO A CONSTRUCTIVIST THEORY

The capital of Prussia since the XIIIth century, Berlin became the capital of then unified Germany only in 1871. It has seen the heyday of Imperial Germany under the emperors Wilhelm (the 1st), Friedrich (the 3rd) and again Wilhelm (the 2nd, aka "Kaiser Bill"), was not affected much by World War I, became the centre of the first German democracy, the "Weimar Republic" in the Roaring Twenties, was Hitler´s metropolis in the Thirties (although he preferred the South German cities), and payed the price by near complete destruction during the firestorms of World War II. And then it became The Divided City for 44 years. 10 years after the Fall of the Wall, the Federal Government of Bonn is supposed to move to the old/new capital in 1999 - now Berlin is nicknamed the biggest construction site in Europe, if not in the world...You´ll believe it if you look into this "city scope" Web Site.
 

	An "interactive city map" can be found at the following site: City Map Berlin. To find the relevant section, enter the name of the street you want to go to. You can then move to adjacent areas by clicking on the compass rose.
	Web Sites with information on Berlin (in English):  Berlin Information, the official information site, with an English language section: Good to know. Berlin-Info Berlin Information, supplied by a Berlin University department Web Tourist, supplied by a Swiss company Open World City Guide Berlin, a British site The Berlin Bear, a local radio station Web Site.
	Web Sites with information on Germany (in English): Basic Facts about Germany, supplied by:  German House, the Web Site of the German Information Center, as well as the Embassy to the UN and the General Consulate in New York, with links to many other sites Webtourist: a Swiss travel information site

Christo´s and Jeanne-Claude´s hommage to Parliament House ("Reichstag" in German) - after it burned down in 1933, the Nazis left it a ruin because to them it was the symbol of the despised parliamentary democracy of the Weimar Republic. It will become the seat of the German parliament again in 1999. There is also a Wrapped Reichstag Web Site.