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BERLIN WALL, YOU ARE MAGNIFICENT AND SEXY

November 09, 2009
by MILENE LARSSON

Today is the 20-year anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, a day that should be celebrated by wearing silly hats, sipping on Budweisers and Coca-Colas, munching McDonald’s and bananas (can you believe they couldn’t even get bananas east of the Berlin Wall?), and watching porn while singing Bowie’s “Heroes” from the top of your lungs. Though, this day celebrating the liberation of the people of the former DDR is a day of grief for Eija-Riitta Berliner-Mauer, the infamous Swedish wife of the Berlin Wall (if you haven’t read about her before, it’s completely true and her sexual orientation is called objectum-sexuality, meaning she’s emotionally and sexually attracted to objects, like walls, fences, bridges and so on). Yes, we’ve read all the stories about her already and, if you can read German, also interviewed her, but we were still curious about what she’s like in person. Conveniently enough, we were recently sent a photo story called A Concrete Love Story about her, shot by three young Norwegians. They’ve obviously spent some time with her, so we called them up.

Read the interview on viceland