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3: THE MATERIALITY OF THE BERLIN WALL Figure 11: East Side Gallery. A section of hinterland wall built in ‘Border Wall 75’ style. This became an open air art exhibition in 1990. Photo: Anna McWilliams. 59
AN ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE IRON CURTAIN The materiality of the Berlin Wall is not limited to the city of Berlin itself but actually stretches across the whole world. Many sections were moved soon after the fall of the wall and scattered across the globe to be placed in office buildings, at universities and especially popular, as part of memorials. Sections of wall are today a commodity and in larger sections well-priced collector’s items. Some people saw the potential in the materiality of the Berlin Wall already as it was coming down and collected large amounts of the concrete walls to sell on. Larger pieces are sold for considerable sums of money to collectors all over the world. In 2008 an auction house in Berlin reported to have sold one section of perimeter wall for 7,800 euros (BBC News 2008). Smaller pieces of the wall are sold in souvenir shops or on the internet and are often accompanied with a certificate to authenticate them. As the smaller pieces are easily moved and there are no restrictions on taking them out of the country they have contributed to the wall being distributed all over the world. The long section of wall, 1.3 km, which after an international spray and paint event in 1990 became known as the East Side Gallery was actually a hinterland wall even though the same material was used as for the ‘enemy facing wall’, Border Wall 75. This was one of the only places where the eastern side of the border defences were visible to any state visitors as well as others who travelled on Mühlenstrasse which was the main route to Schönefeld Airport. It was therefore made to look the same as the wall seen from the West in order to play down the severity of the border fortifications (Klausmeier and Schmidt 2004:194). This wall is now one long, open air art gallery with a large number of visitors every year (Figure 11). Crossing over As the wall blocked the majority of the routes between East and West Berlin any traffic between the two had to be channelled through the official crossing points. There were 14 crossings from West Berlin to the GDR of which eight were located within the city centre. There were strict rules as to who was allowed to cross at the different crossings and the infrastructure put in place helped to control the flow of pedestrians or vehicles. The lanes used to route traffic through the crossing were still visible when the archaeological survey was carried out in 2001–2003 (Klausmeier and Schmidt 2004:82 and 126). The most famous crossing was the so-called Checkpoint Charlie located at the corner of Friedrichstraße and Zimmerstraße. Only foreign nationals 60
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Contents Acknowledgements 11 CHAPTE
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SAMMANFATTNING En fysisk metafor I
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