Genuinely authentic? An audio walk through the centre of Potsdam

Stations in this audio guide:

Introduction (7:40 min) • DAS MINSK – a Byelorussian space capsule (8:30 min) • The Freundschaftsinsel – a tale of naked bodies and authentic scents (10:17 min) • The Hotel Mercure – the jewel in the crown of socialist Potsdam (9:52 min) • The City Palace – a château of democracy (11:10 min) • The Potsdam Museum – a guardian of the authentic (11:55 min) • The Museum Barberini – a slice of Ancient Rome in Potsdam (10:11 min) • The Kabinetthaus I – a story of commemorative plaques and the art of “making authentic” (7:04 min) • The Kabinetthaus II – rediscovering authenticity in traces of Prussia’s colonial past (4:43 min) • Wilhelm-Staab-Straße – a piece of socialist Baroque (8:52 min) • The carillon from the Garrison Church – a gift of dubious motives (10:07 min) • The Rechenzentrum – where people are clinging to a mosaic as they would to a life raft (11:07 min) • The Garrison Church – Potsdam’s highly contentious building project (6:37 min) • The Markt-Center – a story of urban authenticity and of nature that was built over (6:24 min) • The Seerose – petals made of concrete (6:13 min) • The pumphouse topped by a minaret – a mosque that’s nothing of the sort (7:27 min)