RECENT HISTORY AND THE PRESENT
In the mid-1960s, the Sing–Akademie zu Berlin was unlawfully struck off the title register as the owner of the building Am Kastanienwäldchen, and instead “people’s property” was entered. Since 1991, the Sing-Akademie has been working on having the title register corrected, und for the return of its property. Today there is a valid verdict from the Berlin Administrative Court (Verwaltungsgericht Berlin, 25. Kammer, 3 December 2004004-VG, AZ: 25 A 240.99) in favour of Sing-Akademie. According to this verdict, the Sing-Akademie has retained ownership of its building. Now it needs to strive to effect a change in the title register, either through the civil courts, or through negotiations with Berlin’s government.
The statue of the choir’s founder Carl Friedrich Christian Fasch, which was erected in front of the building on the occasion of Sing-Akademie’s centennial, and which had been taken down in the 1930s and is now kept in Berlin’s Märkisches Museum, was supposed to return to its old place in 2008. To this day, this has not happened.
(Source: Wikipedia - http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sing-Akademie_zu_Berlin)