The Berlin Wall across the world
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: Seattle Center, Center House, 3305 Harrison Street 1 segment from Potsdamer Platz Achim Becker, entrepreneur and owner of a Muenzhandlung, was very impressed by the reunification. Therefore he set up a Wall segment on the ANA, one of the leading World Money Fairs in Seattle in August 1990. Thousands of visitors saw the Wall segment, that bears […]
Location: in front of the German Embassy 1 segment from Potsdamer Platz As in many other countries, a Wall segment is standing in front of the German Embassy in Kievalso in the Ukraine. It was inaugurated on November 9, 2009 on occasion of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Wall. The original graffito Can I stay? […]
Location: Mémorial de Caen, Normandie 2 segments from the sector between Potsdamer Platz and Leipziger Straße In a truck loaded with two tons of paint and painting tools, the French artist Daniel Boulogne set off from Paris in November 1989. Destination: Berlin, to support the Artists Union of the GDR, who wanted to paint the East side of the Wall, the […]
Location: Parc Leopold, in front of the European Parliament 1 segment from Potsdamer Platz It took three years to find a suitable location: The Wall segment in Parc Léopold was donated by EU Commissioner Michaele Schreyer to the capital of Europe. It symbolizes the end of the Cold War, the unification of Europe and the beginning of the […]
Between the big stage of politics and the short stories of everyday life, there are all sorts of witnesses who even left traces in time. A random selection of individuals and institutions, who got to attention for very different reasons in the course of the research (use the names as search strings to see the sites […]
The Wall is now here Around the globe, on every continent, in a multitude of countries… some of them are roofed over or displayed behind glass, some are rather weathered, others are continuously restored. Segments are put up in backyards, on prominent squares and private properties, at symbolic places, in museums and bars… on the parking lot of the CIA and […]
on Berlin Wall (4th generation, Grenzmauer 75) Official name Stützwandelement UL 12.41 Measures per element height: 3.60 m • width: 1.20 m • weight: 2.7t Unit price (for fabrication) 359 Mark (for comparing: ø gross earnings full-time staff 1975 = 889 Mark/mthly.) Length of innercity border 43.1 km • ca. 45,000 segments Length of border […]