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Painted by Jakob Wagner with Conrad Schumann's leap to freedom, the segment came for the 2013 Grenzland-Filmtage and moved here in 2019.
The town of Selb's own walking-tour brochure, "Roter Faden", lists the segment at its second station, the Platz der Erinnerung, among objects recalling events of recent history, beside a granite column titled "1989 – Das Jahr des Volkes". It shows a man in uniform jumping over barbed wire, a reminder of the border policeman Conrad Schumann's leap to freedom on 15 August 1961 at the corner of Bernauer and Ruppiner Straße in Berlin, and was painted by the Berlin artist Jakob Wagner. The brochure says the piece came originally from the Freedom Park at Checkpoint Charlie, was set up in the Bürgerpark in 2013 for the Grenzland-Filmtage, and moved to its present place in 2019.
The Wall Net, writing in 2018, ties it to the festival's 2013 screening of the documentary "Up to the border" by Gerald Grote and Claus Oppermann and says the names of the audience-award winners were to be engraved on a plaque on its back. The former Bürgerpark is now being built over: the town's newsletter reported that construction began there in July 2025.
The brochure does not give the square's street, so the position is shown at town level; whether the prize-winners' plaque continued after the move is not known.
How did it get here?
Originally in the Freedom Park at Checkpoint Charlie, painted by Jakob Wagner, brought to Selb for the 2013 Grenzland-Filmtage and moved from the Bürgerpark to the Platz der Erinnerung in 2019.
Sources
Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #384.
Roter Faden – Rundgang SELBst erleben (Stadt Selb) ↗
The town's walking-tour brochure (PDF dated 9 June 2022), station 2, Platz der Erinnerung: the Wall piece showing a man in uniform jumping over barbed wire, from the Freedom Park at Checkpoint Charlie, painted by Jakob Wagner, set up in the Bürgerpark in 2013 for the Grenzland-Filmtage and moved to its present place in 2019.
Institutional sourceSource accessed 2026-09-17
Selbstportrait, August 2025 (Stadt Selb) ↗
The town's newsletter: construction of a residential and commercial building began in the former Bürgerpark in early July 2025.
Institutional sourceSource accessed 2026-09-17
Selb, BY – The Wall Net ↗
Entry of 27 April 2018: a segment set up for the screening of "Up to the border" at the Grenzland-Filmtage 2013, linking the festival with the Bürgerpark, with the audience-award winners' names to be engraved on its back.
General referenceSource accessed 2026-09-17
Berlin Wall Archive ↗
The source lists this place as a Berlin Wall location. Coordinates, where supplied, are source-reported and may represent a general area. This is not independent verification of authenticity, current presence, or public access.
Inventory listingSource accessed 2026-09-17 · Source record 384
Source-reported segments: 1. This is not a separately verified count.
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