The Berlin Wall across the world
Location: on the site of Nihon Bisoh 1 segment from Brandenburg Gate Modern office buildings would quickly fade without costly cleaning and maintenance work on the facade. The Japanese company Nihon Bisoh specializes exactly that work and the development and provision of appropriate facades lifts. Exterior walls are the field of activity of the company. For this reason, […]
Location: Toukokuji Tempel 2 segments According to the legend, the sanctuary in the center of Osaka, the temple in the Eastern valley, goes back on Korean immigrants, who settled here in the 7th century. The two segments of the Wall, standing here since 1998, are a donation of two Koreans. Along with it goes their request to […]
Location: Maruho Co. Ltd. 1 segment from Checkpoint Charlie For almost 100 years the Berlin pharmaceutical manufacturer Dr. Kade maintains business contacts with the Japanese pharmaceutical company Maruho. Their CEO Jiro Takagi followed the developments in Germany in 1989 with great anticipation. When the Wall came down, Takagi addressed his German business partner, wanted him to […]
Location: in front of Teguh Ostenrik’s studio 4 segments As an art student in Berlin in the 1970s, the Indonesian artist Teguh Ostenrik, was at night equipped with spray cans at the Wall. Reason enough for him to return years later to witness first hand the fall of the Wall, and to purchase four Wall segments […]
Location: Dalian International Hotel (missing since end of 1990s) 3 segments Since 1984, the East China port city Dalian, China’s northernmost ice-free port, is a special trade area with branches of international and German companies. Most of their employees check into one of the of the Wanda Group Hotels, i.e. the Dalian Interational Hotel. In 1995, three […]