The Berlin Wall across the world
Location: Gedenkstätte Deutsche Teilung Marienborn 1 segment The Gedenkstätte Deutsche Teilung Marienborn is a memorial of the German and European contemporary history. It is located on the grounds of the former GDR checkpoint on the motorway Berlin – Hanover, one of the most Western points of the former border between the communist dominion and the […]
Location: First Division Museum at Cantigny Park 1 segment The 1st Infantry Division of the US Army, called the Big Red One, was established in 1917 and has always been the vanguard of US forces ever since. The 1st Division had been preparing the way for the US troops in France in WWI. During World […]
Location: Europe square 1 segment A segment of the Berlin Wall, donated by the Federal Republic of Germany, was solemnly inaugurated on occasion of the 28th anniversary of the fall of the Wall. It was set up on the Europe square in Georgia’s capital Tbilisi to remind of the history and to give hope that […]
Location: in front of the Kreuzeskirche 2 segments The Essener Kreuzeskirche is a space for people and a space for the extraodinary – as it is described on its homepage. The imposing building from the 19th century was completely renovated in 2014 and has been cleverly opened to the modern. Taking a closer look, […]
Location: Rue Wirtz, visitor entrance to the EP 1 segment This segment was temporarily set up at a number of places in Brussels. Finally, on occasion of the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Wall in 2014, it was permanent set up in the Rue Wirtz close to the visitor entrance to the hemicycle […]
Location: Bert-Kämpfert-Platz (temp. in June 2017) 2 segments The German-Mexican artist collective CARTEL DEL ARTE hosted a streetart festival in Hamburg a few weeks before the G20-Summit 2017 took place. Cartel Del Arte, for short CADEART, unites international trends of urban art and culture. The multi-day festival was characterized by tolerance and cultural diversity and presented […]
Location: in front of the Council of Europe (temp. in 1990) 3 segments Stopover in Strasbourg en route to Paris: Three distinctive Berlin Wall segments from Kreuzberg Waldemarstraße were set up in front of the Council of Europe already in spring 1990. Far away from Berlin, these segments should enable Strasburg citizens to have a […]
Location: Florastraße 1 segment Hohen Neuendorf was bordering West-Berlin in the North. Four young people were killed in this community while trying to escape: Joachim Mehr on December 3rd, 1964 (at the age of 19), Willi Born on Juli 7th, 1970 (three weeks before his 20th birthday), Rolf Kabelitz on Januar 7th, 1971 (also 19), […]
Location: Skate & BMX Park Kalijodo 4 segments Teguh Ostenrik was a student in West Berlin when the wall fell. Twenty-seven years later, he looks around Indonesia and still sees a lot of walls separating people from each other. “There are ‘walls’ among our pluralistic society that divide us into groups like race, religion, and […]
Location: Rudolf-Breitscheid-Straße 236, Potsdam-Babelsberg 1 segment This segment was set up exactly on the former border strip between the GDR territory and West-Berlin.The border here seperated Berlin from Potsdam and the famous UFA film studios in Babelsberg. The photos on the plaque give an impression of the situation of that time. The border facilities don’t […]