The Berlin Wall across the world
Location: Seattle Center, Center House, 3305 Harrison Street 1 segment from Potsdamer Platz Achim Becker, entrepreneur and owner of a Muenzhandlung, was very impressed by the reunification. Therefore he set up a Wall segment on the ANA, one of the leading World Money Fairs in Seattle in August 1990. Thousands of visitors saw the Wall segment, that bears […]
Location: Hilton Anatole Hotel, 2201 North Stemmons Freeway 2 segments from Waldemarstraße, Kreuzberg Since the early 1990s, two Wall segments are at the Hilton Anatole Hotel in Dallas – initially in the sculpture garden, now in the elevator lobby. Particularly striking is the graffito by Jürgen Große aka Indiano. It was made in Kreuzberg’s Waldemarstraße in November 1989 and […]
Location: 523 Madison Avenue, Jerry Speyer Building 5 segments from Waldemarstraße, Kreuzberg The Wall ensemble in the courtyard of the Jerry Speyer Buildings is a backdrop for the guests of a burger restaurant. The segments were purchased by Jerry I. Speyer in the early 1990s. Speyer is a New York based real estate entrepreneur and co-owner of […]
Location: Winston Churchill Memorial Library, Westminster College 8 segments from Brandenburg Gate Edwina Sandys is a New York based painter, sculptor, artist and granddaughter of Winston Churchill. The latter coined in his Fulton speech in March 1946, the concept of the Iron Curtain. In 1990, Edwina Sandys was allowed by order of the East German government […]
Location: Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum, 1 Presidential Drive 1 segment 1987, Ronald Reagan vs. Mikhail Gorbachev at the Brandenburg Gate: Reagan’s legendary words Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall! are another piece of the puzzle in the subsequent course of history. In 1990 the american president came in possession of a Wall segment, […]
Location: Liberty Plaza, Chapman University 1 segment James L. Doti, director and professor of economics at Chapman University, initiated this memorial, after he had seen a Wall segment in the Richard Nixon Presidential Library in Yorba Linda. Since May 1999, the Berlin Wall is the highlight of the Freedom Park with several other installations on the subject of […]
Location: Imperial War Museum, Lambeth Road 1 segment The Imperial War Museum in London Lambeth Road dedicates an exhibition area to postwar conflicts since 1945, in which the UK was involved – among others the Cold War. The Wall segment from the Brandenburg Gate, painted with a graffito by Jürgen Große aka Indiano is standing in a park outside of […]
Location: in front of the German Embassy 1 segment from Potsdamer Platz As in many other countries, a Wall segment is standing in front of the German Embassy in Kievalso in the Ukraine. It was inaugurated on November 9, 2009 on occasion of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Wall. The original graffito Can I stay? […]
Location: Mémorial de Caen, Normandie 2 segments from the sector between Potsdamer Platz and Leipziger Straße In a truck loaded with two tons of paint and painting tools, the French artist Daniel Boulogne set off from Paris in November 1989. Destination: Berlin, to support the Artists Union of the GDR, who wanted to paint the East side of the Wall, the […]
Location: Parc Leopold, in front of the European Parliament 1 segment from Potsdamer Platz It took three years to find a suitable location: The Wall segment in Parc Léopold was donated by EU Commissioner Michaele Schreyer to the capital of Europe. It symbolizes the end of the Cold War, the unification of Europe and the beginning of the […]