After “The Modern Football Shoe” and the “Milestones of Medicine” the "Automobile" is the third of a total of six huge sculptures in the “Walk of Ideas” through Berlin.
Each of the sculptures symbolises the richness of ideas and the spirit of invention which characterise Germany’s composers, writers, scientists, engineers and perfectionists. More German ideas are concealed within the sculptures themselves: they have all been made using the innovative plastic material Neopor® by BASF and coated with a special new paint developed by BASF Coatings.
“Modern Printing”, “Musical Masterpieces” and “The Theory of Relativity” are the following sculptures that will be exhibited at prominent locations in Berlin’s city centre and unveiled between March and May 2006.
The Unveiling of "The Automobile"
Mike de Vries, Managing Director of FC Deutschland GmbH (l.), and Stephan Grühsem, head of communication of AUDI AG, arrived at the Platz des 18. März in a historical Wanderer Stromlinie car from 1938.
Stephan Grühsem (AUDI AG) and Mike de Vries welcomed more than 600 guests in front of the Brandenburger Tor in Berlin. Photo: AUDI AG
More than 100 photographers, journalists and television teams attended the unveiling in which among others Jürgen R. Thumann, president of the National Federation of German Industry (BDI), took part.
The governing mayor of Berlin, Klaus Wowereit, said: "The 'Walk of ideas' proves the creative potential of the people of this country".
The soccer stars Ronaldo, Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, Zinedine Zidane und Sebastian Schweinsteiger attended the unveiling together with Prof. Dr. Martin Winterkorn, Executive Chairman of AUDI AG. Photo: AUDI AG
Prof. Dr. Martin Winterkorn, Executive Chairman of AUDI AG, posing in front of the sculpture "The Automobile". Photo: AUDI AG