The Berlin Wall Official Homepage
Picture shows me and the Berlin Wall in summer 1979
This site is dedicated to the Berlin-Wall. My very first love. I loved him since he was born (in 1961), and he still is very dear to me. But looking at photos of the Berlin Wall didn't prepare me for when I first met him in 1977. Seeing him for real, being close to him, touching him.......mere words cannot describe my ecstasy. To me 9th of November 1989 was a catastrophe. Watching television coverage of my husband being torn apart. I can never forgive them for doing that. If you would like a further insight into my relationship with the Berlin Wall, I suggest you take a look at the Why The Berlin Wall and other constructions?.
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The Berlin Wall at Harzer Straße, photo taken at my first visit to Berlin in 1977. This shows the original Wall built in 1961. I am especially fond of these old parts of the Berlin-Wall...
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This picture is also the Berlin Wall at Harzer Straße, but between the Walls. To the right a newer Wall. This picture is taken from East Berlin side with other words. I wanted to see what the Wall looked like from East, and also needed some pictures for model building.
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Photo: Berliner-Mauer, Liden, Sweden.
The Berlin Wall at Checkpoint Charlie. New section of the Wall. Photo taken in 1978.
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The Wall at Garten Straße. I took this photo when I was in Berlin 1977.
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Photo: Berliner-Mauer, Liden, Sweden.
Another picture of the Berlin Wall at Garten Straße. Behind this brick Wall you can see a more modern Wall. Photo from 1978.
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Photo: Berliner-Mauer, Liden, Sweden.
Also Garten Straße, a total view over both Walls. This picture is from 1977, when I first visited the Berlin-Wall.
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Photo: Berliner-Mauer, Liden, Sweden.
The Berlin Wall at Ebert Straße. Here with support Wall.
The total height 3,65 meters. Each of the Wall modules are 1,20 meters width, height of each module without the tube is 3,60 meters, the support platform is 1,60 meters width. Width of the actual Wall is 12 centimeters at the top and 22 centimeters at the base. The DDR official name of these modules are "Stützwandelement U" which means "support Wall module".
Photo taken in January 1982.
Photo: Berliner-Mauer, Liden, Sweden.
The Berlin Wall at Potsdamer Platz, picture most likely taken around 1962. Two more concrete "brick layers", actually concrete beams on the top of the Wall, plus the Y-supports for the barbed wire. On the original Wall (from 1961) there were not these two concrete beams neither the Y-supports. There were bended iron-bars with barbed wire - towards west.
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Photo: A. Schatz, Berlin, West-Germany.
The Berlin Wall at Bernauer Straße. Picture taken in 1977, new section of the Wall being put up. Here with the support platform towards the west side. Normally the support platform is towards "friend side" = the east side. These modules are standing in a 10 centimeters concrete layer.
Photo taken in 1977.
Photo: Unknown.
The Berlin Wall at Zehlendorf. Photo taken in January 1982.
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Photo: Berliner-Mauer, Liden, Sweden.
The Berlin Wall at Chaussee Straße. This picture also shows the original Wall built in 1961. In front of the Wall the original Fence DDR put up at 13th of August 1961. In 1966 DDR started to replace these old parts of the Wall with more modern Wall - with concrete segments between H-beams of iron or concrete (at some parts of the Wall). Like I wrote at the tope of the page, I am especially fond of these old parts of the Wall - with the Y-supports and barbed wire, concrete building elements, bricks etc...
I would like to dedicate a small poem for this image of the Wall.
The Berlin Wall - you are my lover and my best friend!
Your bricks give ME the strength I need in life!
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Photo: Unknown
The Berlin Wall at Eber Straße. Photo taken in January 1982.
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Photo: Berliner-Mauer, Liden, Sweden
Because of demands from the French military government soviet engineer troops have Friday morning the 2nd of September 1961 moved back the Wall about 10 meters at the sector border on Klempke Straße in Reinickendorf, which turned out to be in the French sector.
The photo shows about ten meters of The Wall moved back.Photo: Landesbildstelle, Berlin
Workers at the Soviet sector heighten the Wall at the sector border Bernauer Staße (U-Bahn station Bernauer Str.) by adding another layer of bricks at 28th of September 1961.
Photo: Landesbildstelle, Berlin
I have built 9 models of the Berlin Wall - different sections. If you are interested in the models, you can visit the model building page:
Scratch built models
...there are also other models I have built on this page.
October 18, 2009
The Berlin Wall Official Homepage
If You Always Like The Emotionally Unavailable, It's Because You Probably Are, Too - Objectum-sexuality - Jezebel
If You Always Like The Emotionally Unavailable, It's Because You Probably Are, Too - Objectum-sexuality - JezebelIf You Always Like The Emotionally Unavailable, It's Because You Probably Are, Too
There have been a lot of stories lately (and even a movie) about people in love with inanimate objects. Today, Sega Toys annoyingly announced that it was jumping on this sad trend by creating a doll-sized robot girlfriend, called Eternal Maiden Actualization, for lonely men. While some people who fall in love with inanimate objects call their orientation objectùm-sexuality, it seems to me that such people fall into a larger class of us called "people who are so scared to get hurt that they subconsciously choose relationships in which they won't be." You know, inanimate objects, emotionally unavailable men, we're all just looking to minimize the pain we know is coming.
Sure, everyone gets involved with an emotionally unavailable guy once. They can be so charming! You know there's more to him! He'll realize that you're special! And so you putter around him, a perpetual motion machine of awesomeness in which you minimize your flaws and maximize your coolness factor, acting loving but aloof enough not to scare him at the same time, after which he inevitably fucks someone else or you get hurt by his actual aloofness or worn down by pretending to be some perfect version of yourself to convince him get emotionally invested. Then you learn not to do it again and go find someone that thinks it's funny or even endearing that you talk too loudly when you drink or sing really bad karaoke or have a weird bellybutton and hopefully you open up and let him get to know that person you are when you're not trying so hard to be liked.
On the other hand, some of us keep doing it. Your life becomes an endless string of dudes that don't allow you to get too close or bail before you can get too invested or force your hand into bailing because you're just not going to take that shit from some guy. And you get to feel the butterflies, and you get to know you can still feel by being in just enough pain when it ends that you notice and maybe it will wring some tears out of you, but, really, when he's not letting you get that close, you're actually not that close. Since you can't get close to him, since you're spending your time trying to be so cool or not being upset about the aloofness and the lack of emotional intimacy, you're not letting him in anymore than he's letting you in.
So, yeah, it's weird that some dudes would rather have an expensive doll than try to have a relationship with a person, or that a woman would love the Berlin Wall and not an actual man, but it's no weirder than convincing yourself that you're in love with some dude you don't really know and who doesn't know you. It's all just one of a myriad number of ways to protect your most fragile bits because if someone doesn't know you, then it isn't gonna hurt that bad when they don't love you back.
People In Love With Objects [BoingBoing]
Japan Makes Robot Girlfriend For Lonely Men [Reuters]Related: Objectùm-Sexuality Internationale
Objectum-Sexuality ♥ Erika Eiffel not only dances with architecture, she...ahem...has relations with it/them/he/her! ON Tyra - GIRL LOOKIN' FINE TOO! YouTube THANKS TO JEZEBEL FOR FINALLY CUTTING IT UP
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You have got to see this documentary about "objectum sexuals," people who fall in love with objects like fences and amusement park rides, (one woman even married the Eiffel Tower). And they have sex.
If you thought that men in love with Real Dolls was strange, wait until you see Strange Love: Married to the Eiffel Tower, which follows these fetishists (all of them, for some reason, female). Interestingly, Objectum Sexuals — they call themselves OS people — believe their love with the objects are reciprocal and that they can telepathically communicate with them.
Amy Wolf is in love with a fairground ride called 1001 Nacht, for which she writes poetry. Based on appearances, she seems like an out-and-proud lesbian, but has no interest in humans. She also loves a church banister, a banister in her home, and the Empire State building. Having connected through an OS people forum on the internet, Erika goes to visit Amy. (Both women are said to have Asperger's and share a history of abuse.) They go to the fairground to see 1001 Nacht. In the clip above, Amy is left alone to have an intimate moment with the ride, while Erika goes for a walk. She happens upon a picket fence and feels an immediate attraction.
Erika La Tour Eiffel married the Eiffel Tower and then took its name. But she doesn't like referring to the structure as "it" because "calling something an 'it' instantly means it's inanimate." She gets "a sense" of an object's gender. According to her, the Eiffel Tower is female.
After suffering abuse as a child, and bouncing between foster homes, she joined the US Air Force but during her training, was sexually assaulted, and defended herself with a Japanese sword, which was her lover at the time. She refused to part with the sword, and was discharged from the military for psychological reasons. She then fell in love with an archery bow — she became a US medal champion in archery — but her feelings for the bow waned after time and she moved on to bigger things, literally, as in: tourist attractions. On their one-year anniversary, Erika goes back to visit the Eiffel Tower to consummate their marriage. She lifts up her skirt, and straddles one of the beams with "no barrier" between them. The entire documentary can be seen here online.
Related:
Object Sexuality [Wikipedia]
Objectum-Sexuality Internationale [Official Site]
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Objectum Sexuality: When Relationships With Inanimate Objects Become Intimate - Objectum sexuals - Jezebel
Objectum Sexuality: When Relationships With Inanimate Objects Become Intimate - Objectum sexuals - JezebelObjectum Sexuality: When Relationships With Inanimate Objects Become Intimate
You have got to see this documentary about "objectum sexuals," people who fall in love with objects like fences and amusement park rides, (one woman even married the Eiffel Tower). And they have sex.
If you thought that men in love with Real Dolls was strange, wait until you see Strange Love: Married to the Eiffel Tower, which follows these fetishists (all of them, for some reason, female). Interestingly, Objectum Sexuals — they call themselves OS people — believe their love with the objects are reciprocal and that they can telepathically communicate with them.
Amy Wolf is in love with a fairground ride called 1001 Nacht, for which she writes poetry. Based on appearances, she seems like an out-and-proud lesbian, but has no interest in humans. She also loves a church banister, a banister in her home, and the Empire State building. Having connected through an OS people forum on the internet, Erika goes to visit Amy. (Both women are said to have Asperger's and share a history of abuse.) They go to the fairground to see 1001 Nacht. In the clip above, Amy is left alone to have an intimate moment with the ride, while Erika goes for a walk. She happens upon a picket fence and feels an immediate attraction.
Erika La Tour Eiffel married the Eiffel Tower and then took its name. But she doesn't like referring to the structure as "it" because "calling something an 'it' instantly means it's inanimate." She gets "a sense" of an object's gender. According to her, the Eiffel Tower is female.
After suffering abuse as a child, and bouncing between foster homes, she joined the US Air Force but during her training, was sexually assaulted, and defended herself with a Japanese sword, which was her lover at the time. She refused to part with the sword, and was discharged from the military for psychological reasons. She then fell in love with an archery bow — she became a US medal champion in archery — but her feelings for the bow waned after time and she moved on to bigger things, literally, as in: tourist attractions. On their one-year anniversary, Erika goes back to visit the Eiffel Tower to consummate their marriage. She lifts up her skirt, and straddles one of the beams with "no barrier" between them. The entire documentary can be seen here online.
Related: GUESS WHAT OBJECTUM-SEXUALS LOVE [Street Carnage]
I Married The Eiffel Tower [Independent]
Object Sexuality [Wikipedia]
Objectum-Sexuality Internationale [Official Site]
Send an email to Tracie, the author of this post, at tracie@jezebel.com.
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