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"Wallpeckers", November 1989: Wall art, "No hammering!" [10/47]

OBJECT INFORMATION

Info

November 15 - 20 1989
Berlin, Zimmerstraße
Created By: Jürgen Lottenburger

License: Creative Commons License

Depicts

Berlin Wall (West), chisel, graffiti (mural), group of people, hammer (symbol), traffic sign, Wall graffiti

Context

Berlin Wall, Berlin Wall woodpecker, border guard, chisel, hammer, piece of the Wall, souvenir

Places

Checkpoint Charlie, Zimmerstraße

Text in image

Take a / walk on / the wild / side

Israel

This will / be a wall / of fate / someday

Farin

Nils

Bela

Peace!

Stefan

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Memory

"Not long after the fall of the Wall, people hacked into the hated construction (in particular, the colourful Western side) with a hammer and chisel so that they could have some original pieces of the Wall as souvenirs. It didn't take long for the bulwark to resemble a piece of Swiss cheese. However, I also watched GDR border patrols confiscate the so-called 'Wallpecker' tools; they were evidently still struggling to see the harmlessness of it all."

Jürgen Lottenburger (West Berlin)