The North Korean dictator Kim-il-Sung on the occasion of the signing of the friendship treaty between North Korea and the German Democratic Republic - the Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich composing his String Quartet No. 8 - Mikhail Sholokhov, Soviet writer and later winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature - just some of the famous guests in the tranquil guest house of the government of the GDR, where also in 1986 delegates of the Warsaw Pact decided on the suppression of the Prague Spring, and where, after the fall of communism in 1990, the state constitution of Saxony was drawn up.
Since the early 2000s, only the dust of history has been drifting through the deserted foyer, the library and the modest rooms, settling on the accessories of a bygone era.
Life punishes those who check in too late...