The Berlin Wall across the world
Location: Rosenthal vineyard 2 segments These two segments on the Rosenthal vineyard in Malibu were likely to be the first ones, which were shipped to the US. Further details unknown. Additional information can be uploaded via comment on this side. With a video project called Freedom Rocks, the everyday life of the Berlin Wall […]
Location: temporary in 2013 1 segment In May 2013 an auction took place with assets of a person, convicted for financial fraud. Years before he paid 40,000 US Dollars for the Wall segment, now it was auctioned for 23,500 US Dollars. The new owner, a Serbian emigrant and restaurant owner, wanted to erect the […]
Location: Smithsonian National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center 4 segments A museum for American history wouldn’t be complete, if there wasn’t a discussion of military conflicts. With the exhibition The Price of Freedom Americans at War the Smithonian tries to fulfil its obligation to display military history. A part of this extensive exhibition is dedicated […]
Location: Rhein Main Base 1 segment The Airlift Memorial in Frankfurt/Main was opened on June 26, 1985, the thirty-seventh anniversary of the beginning of the Airlift to Berlin. In 2008, after the complete withdrawal of U.S. Air Force, the entire area was redesigned and the aircrafts were restored by the Fraport AG. The center […]
Location: MueGa Park 2 segments In 1992, a 65 hectare wide landscape at the banks of the river Ruhr was transformed into a park landscape as part of the North Rhine Westfalia’s flower show. In the MueGa Park twin towns of Muehlheim presented themselves with subject areas. One of Muelheim twin towns at that time was […]