The Berlin Wall across the world
Location: German Embassy 2 segments As part of the STREET Festival, two segments of the Berlin Wall were solemnly unveiled in November 2018 at the German Embassy Bangkok by Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Thailand, H.E. Mr. Virasakdi Futrakul, and Ambassador-Designate of the Federal Republic of Germany, H.E. Mr. Georg Schmidt. […]
Location: DMZ Museum 2 segments In May, 2018, two Berlin Wall segments were set up at the DMZ Museum close to the Goseong Unification Observatory in South Korea. The BerlinWall segments were shipped to South Korea with the organizational help of Hanns Seidel Foundation Korea. Along with other exhibits on the German division and German […]
Location: Berufsbildende Schule 4 segments The four segments were set up at the Berufsbildende Schule in Rodalben in the late 1990s to commemorate and to remind of the German division. The segments were painted by Thierry Noir. He remembers: “The segment on the far right and the second one on the left were originally in […]
Location: Center for Unified Future of Korea 2 segments The Korean Ministry of Unification opened the Center for the Unified Future of the Korean Peninsula on November 12, 2014 in Yeoncheon-gun, Gyeonggi-do (Gyeonggi Province). It will allow people to imagine what a reunified Korean Peninsula will look like.The center will serve as a venue […]
Location: Museo Memoria y Tolerancia 1 segment (previous: Museo de Historia Moderna) The claim of the Museo Memoria y Tolerancia in the heart of Mexico-City is as simple as it is manifold and fundamental to the humankind: It contributes to vivid remembrance and triggers a discussion of culture of tolerance. Impressive exhibitions discuss crimes against […]
Location: Hach Company, private property 1 segment Hach Company is a global provider of water quality testing and analytical instruments. The company was founded by Clifford and Kitty Hach in 1947. In the course of globalisation they took over the Berlin based Dr. Lange GmbH, which had been working in the same business segment since […]
Location: World Council of Churches, Route de Ferney 3 segments Three Berlin Wall segments are in the garden of the World Council of Churches (WCC) in Geneva. In 2009, WCC general secretary Rev. Dr Samuel Kobia commented on the 20th anniversary of the event that brought to an end the cold war era:Twenty years ago in […]
Location: Hanbit Square 6 segments The world’s fair in 1993 (Exposition Universelle Internationale, shortly: EXPO) took place in the than developing South Korea – exactly 100 years after Korea’s first participation at an EXPO (1893 in Chicago). The overall subject of the EXPO ’93 was The Challenge of a New Road of Development. Germany, […]
Location: Museo de la Moda, temp. spring to autumn 2018 1 segment (on loan of German Embassy in Santiago de Chile) Siendo el futuro: 1889-1918 / 1989-2018 – being the future – is a temporary exhibition of the Museo de la Moda, a fashion museum in the Chilean capital. Sociopolitical, technical and cultural subjects are […]
Location: private property, Historische Bauelemente 2 segments from Pankow After the German Unification, a lot of demolition works, core removals and renovation was done in the new federal states. Scrapped stuff was dumped. Olaf Elias soon got specialized in saving historical components and antiques from the Renaissance to Bauhaus and GDR-Objectivity and has made it […]