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Sunday, March 31, 2019

Last stand for Berlin’s ageing concrete advertising pillars

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Grassroots campaign hopes to save city’s Litfaß columns from being destroyed by authorities

They have been an integral part of the city’s furniture for so long, Berliners admit to taking them for granted.

But concrete advertising pillars, known as Litfaßsäule – or Litfaß columns – after the man who invented them, around 3,000 of which dot the German capital, are under threat. A low-key, grassroots protest has sprung up in an effort to save them from destruction and sparked a trend involving writing messages on the pillars, as well as poems and heart felt tributes.

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from World news | The Guardian https://ift.tt/2uBO2SM

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