The Berlin Wall across the world
Location: Bayside Business Plaza 2 segments Frank Goltzen’s American dream has come true: Born in Frankfurt/Main in 1931, emigrated at age 15, he became in the following years a successful building contractor. In gratitude, he dedicated two Wall segments to the American determination to tear down the Wall. The segments were set up on the parking lot of […]
Location: Battery Park, Manhattan 2 segments from Potsdamer Platz In November 2004 a friendship concert by the Juilliard School Conservatory of Music and the Berlin Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler took place in the New Yorker Battery Park in view of the Statue of Liberty. Motto: policy is building walls – music is uniting. On this occasion, two Wall segments […]
Location: Los Angeles County Museum of Art 10 segments On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Wall, ten segments of the Berlin Wall were shipped to Los Angeles on behalf of The Wende Museum. The Wall segments were set up at Wilshire Boulevard in front of the Los Angeles County Museum […]
Location: Western Avenue Station, Lincoln Square 1 segment Decendents of German emigrants are dominating the cityscape at Lincoln Square, Chicago and its immediate vicinity since the mid-19th century. Consequently, there is a Wall segment in the metro station since the beginning of 2008. To get the Wall there was a joint initiative by the German General Consul […]
Location: Seattle Center, Center House, 3305 Harrison Street 1 segment from Potsdamer Platz Achim Becker, entrepreneur and owner of a Muenzhandlung, was very impressed by the reunification. Therefore he set up a Wall segment on the ANA, one of the leading World Money Fairs in Seattle in August 1990. Thousands of visitors saw the Wall segment, that bears […]