This year, the commemoration of the 1848 revolution will revolve around Frankfurt’s Paulskirche, the seat of the first freely elected pan-German parliament. The emphasis will be on the first attempt at a democratic constitution and less on the associated question of a possible national unity of Germany. And again one will lament the separation of democracy and national movement in Germany caused by the failure of the revolution.
Historian Christopher Clark spoke in Berlin about the 1848 revolution – culture
