The Berlin Wall across the world
Location: Stony Point Courtyard 1 segment Stony Point, 10 kilometers south of West Point and about 60 kilometers north of NYC, played in important role in the fight for independence: In a night in July 1779 Continental General Anthony Wayne and his men attacked a British fortification located on the peninsula at Stony Point. The […]
Location: Domaine du Luchin 1 segment StreetArt has its home where football is originated. Therefor it seems reasonable to interlink football and art. When Michel Seydoux, president of France’ premier league football club Lille OSC, had seen an exhibition by Sylvestre Verger, he decided immediately to buy a Berlin Wall segment, to launch a project […]
Location: private property 2 segments Two Berlin Wall segments stood as personal reminder until the 2010th on a farm in Unterbrunn/Gauting, near Munich: Immediately after the Fall of the Wall, Johann Geiger had been working on various constructions sites in Eastern Germany for almost ten years. The Berlin Wall segments, along with two Trabis and […]
Location: business park De Trompet 15 segments – temporary in 2015 Stopover on its way to South America: 15 Berlin Wall segments had been temporary on display in a business park in Heemskerk, North Holland. As the owner allowed, they could have been visited during 2015. Numerous local students from Heemskerk and around took the […]
Location: Chemin Vert, Promenade Nelson Mandela1 segment Gonfreville l’Orcher, located near Le Havre in Seine-Maritime, commemorates every September the liberation of the Nazi occupation in 1944. The 72nd anniversary of this liberation came along with another anniversary, the 50th birthday of twinning with Teltow, Brandenburg. A partnership that even began in GDR times and has […]
Location: Trondheim Kunstmuseum Gråmølna6 segments On the 26th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Trondheim municipality has commissioned the artist Lars Ø Ramberg to make a permanent sculpture outside of the venue Gråmølna at Trondheim kunstmuseum. Lars Ø Ramberg is a Norwegian artist living in Berlin. He is one of the most internationally […]
Location: in front of the Cultural Center Professor Lauro Monteiro de Carvalho e Silva1 segment from Bornholmer Straße In July 2016, a Berlin Wall segment was set up accompanied by an explanatory exhibition about 180 kilometers north of Sao Paulo. The resident Music School Lyra Mojimiriana opened its Winter Festival with this exhibition. The Brazilian […]
Location: at the Nordcenter1 segment from a border section at Teltowkanal Since autumn 2014 a Wall segment is standing clearly visible at a shopping center in Schwedt/Oder. The owner declares: Varied reasons inspired me to acquire and set up the Wall segment. The main point was the missing GDR reappraisal in the history classes of […]
Location: Ernst-von-Bergmann Barracks 1 segment In autumn 1990, the command of the demolition of the inner-German border fortifications changed from National People’s Army (NVA) to the Bundeswehr. As a result Wall memorials were erected at numerous military bases in Germany. So in Munich, Bavaria, at the Ernst-von-Bergmann barracks, home of the medical service academy of […]
Location: Gaza Barracks 1 segment Light Dragoons have always been rather exceptional troops. They were first raised in the middle of the 18th Century for reconnaissance and patrolling – in other words scouting – but soon acquired a reputation for courage and dash in the charge. During the period of a divided Germany they served […]