The Berlin Wall opened on the 9th of Nov, 1989 and the 5th of Nov, 2008 was my first opening for six models of the Berlin Wall in scale 1:20 at the Mauer Museum Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin, Germany.

After years of research and many trips to the former No-Man's Land, my Berlin Wall models represent different generations and variations of the Berliner Mauer from 13 Aug, 1961. It is my hope that my Berlin Wall models will show the true life of the Berlin Wall as a structure... from a roll of barbed wire to a barrier in a series of advanced border fortifications surrounding West Berlin for 28 years.

There were several newspapers at the opening and I was also interviewed by Russian TV. Below is are links. See my Hobby page for photos of my Berlin Wall models.

"Mauermuseum präsentiert Nachbildungen der Berliner Mauer"

HTB Russian TV ...featured near the end.

Translation of the Russian:

"A Wall has been built in the Museum, too. American artist Erika Eiffel recreated in details all the generations of the Berlin Wall. She walked along nearly all the route of the Wall - half a hundred km inside the city, hundred and a half km outside. She feels the wall with her skin.

"This is the politics, terrible politics of the Soviet Union!" says Aleksandra Hildebrandt, the head of the museum.

"Yes," says Erika Eiffel, "But when I built this wall I was not thinking about the politics, I was thinking about this construction. If I think about the politics it's too sad. I could never build the wall."

*** "To feel with one's skin" means in Russian "to feel a close connection" ... "to be very passionate about something".