The Berlin Wall across the world
Location: Blangy le Chateau (private property) 1 segment For Hans-Olaf Henkel, the Wall segment at his country house in the Normandy, is a personal memory of turbulent times: After the fall of the Wall Henkel was member of the Board of Directors of the Treuhandanstalt and adviser to the former East-German Prime Minister Lothar de Maizière. […]
Location: on the estate of the Rizzoli family (private property) 1 segment In 1990, a dazzling auction took place in Monte Carlo, where first Wall segments were offered to art lovers and enthusiasts from around the world. 80 wall segments came up for auction on behalf of Limex and the LeLeBerlin. The buyers e.g. were next Ljiljana Hennessy […]
Location: Parc de Axel Springer 2 segments In 1990 Jean Broaweys, employee in Berliner Axel Springer Verlag, bought two Wall segments to set them up on his property in Brittany along with other memorabilia. The ensemble was called Parc de Axel Springer. In 2005 the property was sold, the new owner kept the name. […]
Location: temporarily; current site: Esplanade du Gaumont 2 segments In 2011 Benoît Maubrey created a very impressive electroacustic sculpture with 1,000 recycled loudspeakers, radios, and amplifiers, which was installed in a modified form in Berlin. People could call up the sculpture and talk through it for 3 minutes. The whole sculpture amplifies peoples‘ statements and […]
Location: Vaprikkii Museum Center 1 segment of the Hinterlandmauer The Tampella Ltd. was an engineering company but also operated in the wood-based production. In the early 1990s the company was smashed after a bankruptcy.The factory building has been used by the Vaprikkii Museum Center since then. The Wall segment, that was set up here in 2008, is a […]