Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation: The captain leaves the tanker, which he now calls “Fleet”

Change of office in Berlin's museum landscape: SPK President Hermann Parzinger invited guests to an unsentimental coffee break to say goodbye.
Hermann Parzinger, 66, was President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (SPK) for 17 years. Bernd von Jutrczenka/dpa
A thoughtful contemporary once remarked about our restless human striving and deeds that, at the end of a long journey, nothing is perfect. This old wisdom resonates with Hermann Parzinger , the recently departing President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (SPK). Next week, he will hand over the "Museum Tanker," Germany's largest and most important cultural institution, a truly seaworthy "fleet," to his successor, Marion Ackermann .

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