Nationalfeiertag is a book about one of the biggest, and most monitored squares in the world: Tiananmen Square in Beijing. 26 years after the student protest in April and May and the massacre on June 4th, officials and police try to control the images taken on the Square. Katja Stuke filmed a few hours of material on Tiananmen Square, and Chinese National Holiday on October 1st as the following Golden Week. From this footage Stuke extracted hundreds of portraits. Combining her own contemporary photographs with newsprint scans from the June 4th Museum Hong Kong, the publication creates a layered portrait of memory, surveillance, and the controlled image in contemporary China.