Land of Ideas

Walk of Ideas

Oversized Aspirin® tablet in Berlin

Sculpture of a giant Aspirin® tablet on Berlin's Friedrich-Ebert-Platz (near the Reichstag building)

By the time the starting whistle blows on the World Cup in June 2006, oversized sculptures of major German inventions will have been unveiled in many sites around Berlin. Visitors and Berliners will then be able to stroll this sculpture boulevard on a "Walk of Ideas" around the capital. The plans for the sculptures are in full swing. We will keep you up to date on developments on these pages. An oversized sculpture of the Aspirin® tablet made by Bayer is also on show. The sculpture was unveiled on March 30, 2006 and symbolizes the innovations of the German pharmaceutical industry as one of the “Milestones in Medicine”.

Facts and Figures

The Aspirin®-Sculpture ...

consists of six segments
is ten metres in diameter and ways around 25 tons
is made of a steel-skeleton construction and 100 square metres of glass fibre laminate
has a surface of around 1,000 squad metres
kept more than 100 people busy from planning to erection
was designed by young artists in coordination with Bayer

Did you know that

Aspirin found its place in the Guinness Book of Records in 1950 as the most sold painkiller (source: Guinness Book of Records, 1950)
Neil Armstrong had Aspirin on board when he travelled to the moon. The tablets were packed in the medikit and were to be taken in case of headaches or muscle pains that often occur when travelling through space. (Source: Gutachten, Facts&Files, Think History!, 2006)

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