The Berlin Wall across the world
Location: Florastraße 1 segment Hohen Neuendorf was bordering West-Berlin in the North. Four young people were killed in this community while trying to escape: Joachim Mehr on December 3rd, 1964 (at the age of 19), Willi Born on Juli 7th, 1970 (three weeks before his 20th birthday), Rolf Kabelitz on Januar 7th, 1971 (also 19), […]
Location: Skate & BMX Park Kalijodo 4 segments Teguh Ostenrik was a student in West Berlin when the wall fell. Twenty-seven years later, he looks around Indonesia and still sees a lot of walls separating people from each other. “There are ‘walls’ among our pluralistic society that divide us into groups like race, religion, and […]
Location: Rudolf-Breitscheid-Straße 236, Potsdam-Babelsberg 1 segment This segment was set up exactly on the former border strip between the GDR territory and West-Berlin.The border here seperated Berlin from Potsdam and the famous UFA film studios in Babelsberg. The photos on the plaque give an impression of the situation of that time. The border facilities don’t […]
Location: at the village green, Heinersdorfer Straße 2 segments Two original segments of the Berlin Wall with several plaques were set up in Heinersdorf at the village green. They were set up on behalf of the former mayor to protect them from distruction. Before the Wall came down, Heinersdorf was located close to the border. […]
Location: on the former border to Berlin 1 segment Osdorf, located on GDR territory south of Berlin and within the restricted zone, was razed to the ground in the 1960s. The inhabitants were moved to the neighboring Heinersdorf and other places. Only a barn remained. Next to this “Osdorfer Scheune” (now full of life) there […]