The Berlin Wall across the world
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 […]
Location: Dorfaue 1 segment Schöneiche, in Brandenburg east of Berlin, is one of these villages, which will grow together with Berlin sooner or later. The neighbourhood Kleinschönebeck is under preservation order. Its history of peopling goes back to the 13th century. Today the Dorfanger is called Dorfaue and is surrounded by a wall. Integrated into this wall […]