Berlin-Bird plaque, The Big Burd By George Wyllie on Route of Former Berlin Wall, Märkisches Viertel,Reinickendorf, Berlin.

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Berlin-Bird plaque, The Big Burd By George Wyllie on Route of Former Berlin Wall, Märkisches Viertel,Reinickendorf, Berlin. The bird was 5 metres tall so that it could look over the 4m High Berlin Wall. At the time, Berlin school children created 500 burds that were lined up behind the big Berlin Burd who told them what it could see on the other side. The wall came down some nine months after “Big Bird’ was installed and according to Wyllie, he received the news by phone from Berlin… the message, “Zat you Georg? – a bird is not a stone”. Plaque (english translation) George Wyllie put up the Berlin Burd on the West Berlin side of the Wall on 1st December 1988 as part of a cultural initiative with children from schools in the Märkische Viertel under close observation by the East German police.
On 9th November 2009 the Berlin Burd was finally moved to the former route of the Wall in memory of the Fall of the Wall.

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Size: 3379px × 5068px
Location: Märkisches Viertel,Reinickendorf, Berlin.
Photo credit: © Eden Breitz / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: 1961-1989, berlin, bezirk, big, borough, burd, europe, george, germany, memorial, reinickendorf, route, sculpture, section, site, steel, trail, viertel, wall, work, wyllie, ärkisches