I'm surprised I didn't read this article earlier. I assumed that Bonn would slowly fade away, but it appears that it's very much a presence in today's Germany.
Alan Cowell wrote about it in the New York Times. In fact, Bonn has been growing in size even while Berlin stagnates. According to Bonn's mayor, Bonn has become "younger and fresher". How cool is that?
Cowell also finds space to address the Germans' endless capacity for historical navel-gazing. He closes his story with a quotation from
Die Welt : “Why is this Berlin Republic incapable of sending out a positive signal of itself? ... Can the Germans find no way to articulate historical success?”
