The Galeries Lafayette in Berlin is closing, the state library wants to move into the building. Culture Senator Joe Chialo is now drumming up support at the Academy of Arts for the necessary money. However, a few questions remain.
“Sale la vie” is now written in large blue, white and red on the windows of the Galeries Lafayette department store on Berlin’s Friedrichstrasse. It is possible that other stores have also used this pun for a closing sale. But the shrugging melancholy is particularly fitting when a French department store in Berlin Clearancesale is loading.