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A more formal celebration will be held on 25 September, though not at the headquarters of her political party, the centre-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU), but in the studious setting of Berlin's Academy of Sciences and Humanities. There will be no laudatory speeches by allies but, instead, a lecture by the art historian Horst Bredekamp on the theme of "light and shade in the Enlightenment".
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