The Berlin Wall across the world
Location: Hilton Anatole Hotel, 2201 North Stemmons Freeway 2 segments from Waldemarstraße, Kreuzberg Since the early 1990s, two Wall segments are at the Hilton Anatole Hotel in Dallas – initially in the sculpture garden, now in the elevator lobby. Particularly striking is the graffito by Jürgen Große aka Indiano. It was made in Kreuzberg’s Waldemarstraße in November 1989 and […]
Location: 523 Madison Avenue, Jerry Speyer Building 5 segments from Waldemarstraße, Kreuzberg The Wall ensemble in the courtyard of the Jerry Speyer Buildings is a backdrop for the guests of a burger restaurant. The segments were purchased by Jerry I. Speyer in the early 1990s. Speyer is a New York based real estate entrepreneur and co-owner of […]
Location: Winston Churchill Memorial Library, Westminster College 8 segments from Brandenburg Gate Edwina Sandys is a New York based painter, sculptor, artist and granddaughter of Winston Churchill. The latter coined in his Fulton speech in March 1946, the concept of the Iron Curtain. In 1990, Edwina Sandys was allowed by order of the East German government […]
Location: Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum, 1 Presidential Drive 1 segment 1987, Ronald Reagan vs. Mikhail Gorbachev at the Brandenburg Gate: Reagan’s legendary words Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall! are another piece of the puzzle in the subsequent course of history. In 1990 the american president came in possession of a Wall segment, […]
Location: Liberty Plaza, Chapman University 1 segment James L. Doti, director and professor of economics at Chapman University, initiated this memorial, after he had seen a Wall segment in the Richard Nixon Presidential Library in Yorba Linda. Since May 1999, the Berlin Wall is the highlight of the Freedom Park with several other installations on the subject of […]