Berlin Wall Foundation

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Berlin Wall Foundation
Berlin Wall Memorial.jpg
Designed area of ​​the Wall Memorial
in Bernauer Strasse
Data
place Bernauer Straße 111,
13355 Berlin-Mitte (visitor center at Nordbahnhof ) Coordinates: 52 ° 32 ′ 7.1 ″  N , 13 ° 23 ′ 22.4 ″  EWorld icon
Art
architect Mola + Winkelmüller (visitor center)
opening January 1, 2009
Number of visitors (annually)
967,000 (in 2017)
operator
management
Website
ISIL DE-MUS-736838

The Berlin Wall Foundation is a state-owned foundation of the German state of Berlin , which is run as a museum . The House of Representatives decided to establish it on September 11, 2008 (with the consent of the parliamentary groups of SPD , CDU , Left and Greens , with abstention from the FDP parliamentary group). The Berlin Wall Memorial and the Marienfelde Emergency Reception Center Memorial are part of the foundationsummarized. The contact point for visitors is the newly built two-storey visitor center. Initially, the documentation center set up in a former residential building on Bernauer Strasse was the seat of the foundation. The Günter Litfin memorial has officially been part of the Berlin Wall Foundation since October 2017 .

description

The foundation's institutional funding and the financing of the land purchase for the structural expansion of the Berlin Wall Memorial along Bernauer Strasse are provided by the state and the federal government. Funds from the Stiftung Deutsche Klassenlotterie Berlin, the federal government and the European Union ( EFRE ) from the cultural investment program of the state of Berlin are available for the open-air exhibition and the information pavilion . The investment volume - including the site redevelopment and other measures - is around 26 million euros. In the meantime (as of spring 2018) a visitor center and the exhibition Geisterbahnhöfe have been opened in the entrance building of the Nordbahnhof station about the S-Bahn and U-Bahn stations under the East Berlin area that were decommissioned until the fall of the Berlin Wall . Until the completion of the open-air exhibition in 2011 (first phase in June 2010), the foundation also acted as the client.

The Board of Trustees was constituted on November 7, 2008 in Berlin. The Board of Trustees includes the State of Berlin, the federal government, the support associations of the Berlin Wall Memorial and the Marienfelde Emergency Reception Center, the Protestant Church and the Advisory Board. André Schmitz (Berlin's Secretary of State for Culture) was elected Chairman of the Foundation Council, and Ingeborg Berggreen-Merkel (Head of Department at the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media ) was elected as Deputy Chairman of the Foundation Council .

An advisory board has been set up for the Berlin Wall Foundation. The Dresden contemporary historian Klaus-Dietmar Henke was elected chairman. The director of the Berlin Wall Foundation is the art and architecture historian Axel Klausmeier . Klausmeier was a research assistant at the chairs for monument preservation at the Brandenburg Technical University in Cottbus and at the ETH Zurich and is the author of numerous scientific works, including on the history of the Wall. He officially took up his position as director of the Berlin Wall Foundation on January 1, 2009.

development

Model of the course of the wall

Due to increasing visitor interest and on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the day the Wall came down, the documentation center was rebuilt and the permanent exhibition “1961 | 1989. The Berlin Wall ”. In 2017, 375,000 visitors were counted in this center alone.

The open spaces along Bernauer Strasse, including the former cemetery area, were redesigned in such a way that a three-dimensional impression of the course of the wall and the guard tower was created (window of remembrance) . From 2006, those responsible developed the outdoor exhibition in four areas on the themes of the wall and the death strip (A), the destruction of the city (B), the construction of the wall (C) and everyday life on the wall (D). The situation of the wall was made clear on model boards made of Corten .

Collections

Since 2012, the foundation has been building up its own collection with original holdings on the topics of border regimes, victims, escape, life and everyday life with the wall as well as the reception of the history of division. There is also a large inventory of original objects from collections of contemporary witnesses. So far, partial stocks have been available on the websites and online offers; in the long term, the aim is to put all stocks online.

Web links

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  • Law on the establishment of the Berlin Wall Foundation - Berlin Wall Memorial and Emergency Reception Center Marienfelde (Wall Foundation Act - MauStG) of September 17, 2008 (Law and Ordinance Gazette No. 24 of September 27, 2008, p. 250).

Individual evidence

  1. a b c Press release: 2017 memorial balance sheet. Accessed on July 28, 2018.
  2. Information on the Berlin Wall Foundation's visitor center. Retrieved July 28, 2018.
  3. On the history of the origins of the Berlin Wall Memorial. Retrieved July 28, 2018.
  4. Information on the memorial's documentation center. Retrieved July 28, 2018.
  5. The memorial site in detail . Retrieved July 28, 2018.
  6. Annual report of the Berlin Wall Foundation 2012 . Retrieved August 8, 2018
  7. Insights into the collections of the Berlin Wall Memorial . Retrieved August 8, 2018
  8. ^ Object of the month in the Marienfelde emergency reception center memorial. Retrieved August 8, 2018
  9. mauer-fotos.de: Open Access offer of historical wall photographs . Retrieved August 8, 2018
  10. Annual report of the Berlin Wall Foundation 2012 . Retrieved August 8, 2018