The Berlin Wall across the world
Location: Eureka College, Ronald Reagan Peace Garden part of a segment In a May 9, 1982 speech at Eureka College, Illinois, the then U.S. President Ronald W. Reagan challenged the Soviet Union to a new era of negotiations to reduce nuclear arms – called START. The speech has been labeled “The Beginning of the End […]
Location: Miami Ironside (on the courtyard and on a parking lot) 6 segments On the occasion of the Art Basel Miami Beach 2013, a number of Berlin Wall segments were temporarily set up in Miami Beach and repainted by Thierry Noir. He became famous with his paintints on the Berlin Wall. Finally, four segments were […]
Location: Dorasan station, Unification Platform 1 segment Dorasan is the northernmost station of the South Korean railway company KORAIL, just a few kilometers away from the inner-Korean border. An ideological barrier runs right through a common history, tradition, culture and language since 1948. At some sites in South Korea parts of the Berlin Wall are […]
Location: Ripley’s Believe It Or Not! several parts of the Hinterlandmauer Ripley’s Believe It Or Not! is an US based franchise company, including newspaper cartoons, comics, TV series and several museums, called oddities. In the latter, Ripley’s features in his own words game, fun, excitement, entertainment for the whole family. Berlin Wall included. After the fall […]
Location: new town hall 3 segments The three wall segments are on permanent loan from Jülich building contractor and honorary citizen Heinrich August Schüssler. Initially, the segments stood somewhat apart and unnoticed on the edge of the Schlossplatz. At the beginning of 2015, they were placed in front of the new town hall of the […]