The German Pavilion, the house of the host of the EXPO 2000, was visited very often. Up to 48 000 people from all over the world came to see this pavilion daily. The building which has an area of 8000 m² and with his glass-front be-came the most visited and most popular national pavilion. Because of his un-countable culture programs and his three big shows. Another reason for his popularity was the convincing presentation. Also the “Ideenwerkstatt Deutsch-land”, the “Mosaik Deutschland” and the “Brücken in die Zukunft” were very interesting to get many information and feel emotions. It has to be said that this pavilion was divided into three subjects: Thinking, Feeling and Doing.

In the entry of this pavilion you can find the “Ideenwerkstatt Deutschland” (area Thinking). In this exhibition you can see many sculptures of popular Germans. These sculptures belong to very different subjects, for example politics, sports, economy and culture. You can find there for example, Konrad Adenauer, Hans Beck, Ludwig van Beethoven and many more. They count 47. This part of the exhibition makes it possible to meet the humans personal who did very good things for Germany.

The next one is the zone “Feeling”. In this subject of the exhibition there are screens everywhere on which you can see some films about events which hap-pened in the past, which happen in the present or which will happen in the fu-ture. One film, for example, shows the fall of the wall in Berlin. You can only go on bridges in this area, and that is why it is called “Brücken in die Zukunft”. This title is also the motto of all the German contribution to the EXPO.

In the third and the last part of the show you see the area Doing, the “Mosaik Deutschland”. This mosaic is put together by the individual federal states. Eve-ryone of these 16 federal states introduces itself. The Northrhine-Westfalian symbol is the “Capri-Battery”, which is very good for the leading topic “Mensch-Natur-Technik”.
35 picture-sheets also tell about the different faces of Germany.

The participation of the federal states was very good, because they reached their aim. The German Pavilion gave the visitors a picture of a modern, future orien-tated and democratic state.