Our regular feature, brought to you in association with Strange Nature gin from New Zealand celebrates memorable scenes, moments, launches and campaigns related to the global aviation and travel retail sphere.
GERMANY . Today’s selections, published by Gebr. Heinemann Managing Director at Berlin Airport Steffen Jopp on LinkedIn, are among our most memorable yet.
They come from Berlin Brandeburg Airport where the German travel retailer is offering a hi-tech experience that allows consumers to relive a critical piece of Berlin’s history.
Gebr. Heinemann has partnered with the Cold War Musuem Berlin to offer a range of that institution’s latest collection at Terminals 1 and 2.
The project is highlighted by a display of Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin’s spacesuit on loan from the museum in T1’s Market Place. Gagarin was the first human to orbit earth, doing so in his spacecraft Vostok 1 on 12 April 1961.
As Jopp points out, this was just over four months before Conrad Schumann, a 19 year old East German border policeman, leapt over the rolls of barbed wire at at the corner of Bernauer and Ruppiner Straße and into freedom in West Germany. The moment was captured by West German photographers and has been etched in history as the “leap to freedom” ever since. The Berlin Wall would not fall for another 28 years, on 9 November 1989. ✈
