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Fall of the Berlin Wall, 20 years later a domino wall will fall
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Germany continues to gear up to celebrate 20 years since the Berlin Wall came down on November 9, 1989. On August 13th in 1961, the barricades between East and West Berlin shocked the citizens of the city, the country, and later the world. Overnight the city was cut in two sectors with barbed wire fences up to six feet high.
At this year’s celebratory event, see another Berlin rise and fall again. A new Berlin Wall will be erected but quickly come down on November 9th, 2009. This time, the wall made of styrofoam bricks (dominos) represents an awareness that we should never forget that walls of injustice around the world still exist today. The ‘Domino Gallery’ made up of around 1000 over-sized dominos will cover a route of around two kilometers from the Reichstagsufer to the Brandenburg Gate to Potsdamer Platz close to where the Berlin Wall once stood.
Berlin students have been working on artistic designs for their dominos for many months. Including the student designs, the Goethe Institute shipped around 20 dominos abroad to be decorated in parts of the world where divisions still exist. Nobel Prize winner Nelson Mandela, his children, and grandchildren decorated two dominoes for the exhibit with the "Peace, Love and Understanding."
The styrofoam blocks are 2.5 meters high, 1 meter wide, 40 centimeters thick and weigh 20 kilos. Unlike the actual wall which stood for 28 years, the foam dominos will fall in about 30 minutes during the ‘Freedom Fest’ celebration.
For more information about Germany travel and tourism see:
DDR Museum in Berlin
See Berlin in a DDR Trabi
The day the Berlin Wall went up
See Nefertiti at Berlin's Neues Museum
Segway through Berlin
U2 to perfrom for free during Fall of the Wall celebration
Giants in Berlin celebrate Fall of the Wall anniversary
Germany travel awaits you, so get packed and go see it!
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