This coming weekend Erika Arzt and Juan Linares will attempt to reactivate the wheel of the Spree-Park in Berlin’s Treptower Park. A former technician of the Spree-Park will arrive to Berlin with the intention to re-activate the wheel. If he should succeed, they will have the wheel turning on Sunday, November 8, all day long. Due to technical and safety reasons the Spree-Park cannot be entered. However, the wheel will be visible from different points in Treptower Park and the Plänterwald.
The wheel stands in the middle of an abandoned Amusement Park in the midst of the Plänterwald, initially called VEB Kulturpark Plänterwald, a people owned enterprise, which was built in 1969 in the former GDR. After the German reunification, the park was to be transformed and reopened with the new name Spree-Park and with numerous new attractions refashioned along Western lines. In the year 2001, due to poor results, the park was closed. Now, in the year of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall Erika Arzt and Juan Linares are attempting to re-activate it.
Spree-Park Plänterwald, Treptower Park, Berlin
Sunday, November 8, 2009 / All day
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