The Berlin Wall across the world
Location: in the lobby of Editoria Perfil 8 segments Editoria Perfil is the largest Hispanic publishing house with numerous newspapers and magazine. Immediately after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the publishing house wanted to get some parts of it as lasting witnesses of the historic event. Jorge Fontevecchia, CEO of the Perfil group, recalls: […]
Location: private garden of Allianz SE, Headquarters, Koeniginstraße at the English Garden 2 segments During the years before the Second World War, the Munich-based Allianz insurance had a good thriving location in Berlin like many other companies too. Through the turmoil of war and the Soviet occupation this location was lost. Insurance activities in East […]
Location: in front of the American Consulate, Koeniginstraße 1 segment “In memory of a memorable day” – In 1990, Johannes Singhammer, a then CSU (majority party in Bavaria) Member of Parliament, acquired a segment of the Berlin Wall and set it up in his garden. A few years later he gave it to the Free […]
Location: Ripley’s Believe It Or Not!, Times Square Several elements of the Hinterlandmauer Ripley’s Believe It Or Not! is a US based franchise company, including newspaper cartoons, comics, TV series and several museums, called oddities. In the latter, Ripley’s features in his own words game, fun, excitement, entertainment for the whole family. Berlin Wall included. […]
Location: Simuel Road at Interstate 85 2 segments When the Berlin Wall was torn down, Josef Menzel, founder and owner of a homonymous engineering firm in Spartanburg, asked an East German friend to send him two Wall segments. They were erected on a parking lot in front of the firm building. On the occasion of 20th anniversary […]
Location: Art Basel Miami Beach 2013, temporarily 4 segments As part of Art Basel Miami Beach 2013, the Berlin Wall and pop art artist Thierry Noir presented in collaboration with Porsche Design the project Heart of Freedom. Porsche Design provided 200 TwinBags, which were exclusively hand painted by Thierry Noir. The event in Temple House was attended […]
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 […]