Unmasking a Swede’s Berlin Wall love affair
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The Local was caught off guard this week when several overseas media outlets ran a story on a Swedish woman being married to the Berlin Wall.
Our surprise, however, was not that we were scooped (after all, Aftonbladet ran a story on Eija-Riitta Berliner-Mauer back in 2002 and Svenska Dagbladet mentioned her in a piece about the Berlin Biennal art festival earlier this month).
Rather, we were curious to know why the story suddenly popped up just now.
Our best guess is that a film about the wall shown at the festival featured Ms. Berliner-Mauer, and caught the eye of the British tabloid press.
Anyone else have a better (or more interesting) theory?
May 29th, 2008 at 3:54 pm
Presumably the tabloids were short on reports concerning real live nutters?
May 31st, 2008 at 8:38 am
There was a UK TV show featuring her “Married To The Eiffel Tower: Strangelove” on Five.
June 7th, 2008 at 2:41 pm
Mzungu, she is real “live”. She’s even been on a Swedish TV-show, called “100 Höjdare” which is about REAL persons who are a bit wacky…
July 12th, 2008 at 9:10 pm
She has a website: http://www.berlinermauer.se/ . It´s actually quite interesting.
August 10th, 2008 at 12:16 am
perhaps they are trying to get pregnant?