Part of Berlin Wall May Be Billboard and Monument
While politicians call for the total destruction of the Berlin Wall, an East German entrepreneur has quietly secured rights to a section he hopes to preserve as a monument--and a lucrative billboard.
Andreas Dademasch, who runs an advertising business, told the East Berlin daily Neues Deutschland today that he has bought the rights to 3,300 feet of the 13-foot-high concrete barrier from the district council.
“We’ll clean and look after it because we think something of it should remain as a kind of cultural monument. And, we want to market it for advertising,” he told the paper.
A mess of torn election campaign posters will be scraped off the rental section of the Wall, which will then be repainted white, Dademasch added.
A state-operated East German export company is currently selling off concrete slabs from the wall to collectors.
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