The Berlin Wall across the world
Location: German Society of Pennsylvania, Spring Garden Street 1 segment The German Society in Philadelphia is the oldest club of Germans far from home in the US. On occasion of the 250th anniversary of the German Society and the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Wall, a segment of the Berlin Wall was erected in […]
Location: private property 1 segment In the beginning of 1990, Winfried Prem, demolition contractor from Weiden, received the contract of his life: the demolition and crushing of 200 kilometer Wall. Client: the National People’s Army of the GDR. It took three years to finish the job – with up to 20 excavators and ironically several […]
Location: in front of the railway station 1 segment from the Hinterlandmauer On September 30, 1989 about 4.000 GDR refugees hold out in Federal Republik’s Embassy in Prague. Hans-Dietrich Genscher addresses to them a historic speech: “We have come to you, to inform you, that your exit…” From the following day the GDR emigrants travelled by […]
Location: MuCEM, Musée de civilisations de l’Europe et de la Méditerranée (Museum for Europe and the Mediterranean) 1 segment from Potsdamer Platz The collection of French ethnology with 250,000 exhibits, which originally located in Paris. As spatial boundaries were hit, the collection was removed into a spectacular new museum in Marseille, south of France, that […]
Location: The Great Passion Play, Passion Play Road several elements of the Hinterlandmauer The Great Passion Play in Euroka is well known in the US far across the borders of Arkansas. The play takes place in an amphitheatre with 4.000 seats, involves 170 actors and a number of animals. The area also includes two museums […]