{"id":1120,"date":"2026-07-20T11:44:54","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T09:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mauer.muto.one\/stephan-balkenhol\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T11:02:04","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T09:02:04","slug":"stephan-balkenhol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visiblewall.de\/en\/stephan-balkenhol\/","title":{"rendered":"STEPHAN BALKENHOL"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Stephan Balkenhol<\/p>\n

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The Berlin Wall Memorial \u2028Axel Springer Verlag<\/h2><\/div>

As part of the preparations for the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall in 2009, Axel Springer Verlag decided to honoured the publisher Axel Springer and his decades-long commitment to the reunification of a divided Germany with a contemporary outdoor sculpture in front of the publishing house\u2019s building in Berlin-Kreuzberg.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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The artist Stephan Balkenhol, known worldwide for his wooden sculptures, created the bronze sculpture of the \u2018Wall Runner\u2019 on commission from the publishing house.<\/p>\n

The sculpture incorporates historic L-shaped concrete elements from the Berlin Wall, which Axel Springer Verlag acquired in 2009 from the archives of the LuxPopArt Group.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

Further segments of this provenance were handed over by the editorial board of the Bild newspaper in 2009 to the Minister-Presidents of selected Federal States for display in the state capitals of, amongst others, Bremen, Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein, as well as in Bonn, Leipzig, Nuremberg, Saarbr\u00fccken and Stuttgart.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1117,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-allgemein"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visiblewall.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visiblewall.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visiblewall.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visiblewall.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visiblewall.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1120"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.visiblewall.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1125,"href":"https:\/\/www.visiblewall.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120\/revisions\/1125"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visiblewall.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visiblewall.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visiblewall.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visiblewall.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}