The Berlin Wall across the world
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 […]
Location: culture bunker 3 segments During the Korean war, an anti-tank defense shelter was build in the Northwest of the South Korean capital Seoul in order to prevent the advance of the North Korean military. The apartments within the complex were basically for the soldiers but also a camouflage for the military facility underneath it. […]
Location: Norton Air Force Base Museum, Veterans Memorial Area 1 segment Norton Air Force Base began as Municipal Airport, San Bernardino under Army Air Corps jurisdiction. During the summer of 1941, it became a training base to meet the needs of the 30,000 Pilot Training Program. In December 1941, within days after the attack on […]
Location: Holiday Inn Airport Berlin 1 Segment The history of flying in Schönefeld dates back to 1934, to the Henschel Flugzeug Werke, which were based here until the end of the Second World War. In 1946, the facilities were dismantled and/or destroyed. The Soviet air forces took over the Schönefeld airfields. In 1947, the Soviet […]
Location: Platz der Vielfalt, Kreativ.Quartier 1 segment A Berlin Wall segment was set up in April 2018 at the Platz der Vielfalt (square of diversity), which is on the grounds of a former coal mine. The segment reminds of the German history and is a symbol of tearing down walls between people, as well as […]
Location: Bürgerpark 1 segment A Berlin Wall segment was set up in Selb on the ocassion of the screening of “Up to the border” (by Gerald Grote and Claus Oppermann) at the Grenzland-Filmtage 2013. “Up to the border” is a documentary, which shows the building, the long presence and the downfall of the Wall told […]
Location: Nellen & Quack, premises 2 segments Nellen & Quack, a freight and logistics company, originally moved these Berlin Wall segments to Mönchengladbach on behalf of an advertising agency. The logistic firm showed interest in conserving the segments as a memorial, as the Berlin Wall parts were of no further use to the ad […]