“Anyone who occasionally gets caught up in a debate in the Bundestag on the Phoenix information channel will soon switch to somewhere else again, unless they have very special inclinations.” writes Kurt Kister in the Süddeutsche Zeitung.

Roger Willemsen spent a year in the visitors' gallery of the Bundestag for his book The High House. He observed the envoys at work. His observations show his appreciation of the parliament—despite his obvious criticism. The parliament project pursues the same goal. The consistent flow, pace, and accuracy of the parliamentary minutes were a suitable basis for a graphic ‘observation’ of parliamentary work. The algorithmic analysis of the texts resulted in a book that makes reading the minutes interesting.