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VCCP Berlin has created a content-led campaign for Airbnb, to celebrate an historic moment in Germany’s history – the 25th Anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
The integrated campaign, ‘Wall and Chain’, launched on 7th November, and highlights Airbnb’s ability to help people feel like they belong anywhere.
The emotional story is centred around a West-German border guard in 1987, who leaves the city after completing his service. However, even after settling in Denmark, his experience of the Wall acted as ‘a barrier between him and the rest of the world’. As a result, his daughter plans a trip to Berlin to show him what a beautiful city it has become, and books an apartment through Airbnb. Upon their arrival, the former guard realizes that the man who welcomes them to his apartment is in fact the guard he once knew from the East side of the Wall. Through his present encounter with the border guard he knew in the past, the protagonist is finally able to overcome his distress from the Wall.

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Joe Bracken
Account Manager, Grammatik
United Kingdom
Alexandra Schott
Marketing Director
United Kingdom
Anna Wilson
Graphic Designer
United Kingdom
Sophie Townsend
Art Director, VCCP Partnership
United Kingdom
Graham Ensor
Creative
United Kingdom
Nazli Brennan
Illustrator
United Kingdom
Hekate Papadaki
Development Manager / Writer, Rosa Fund / Freelancing
United Kingdom
Creativepool
United Kingdom
Maurizio Piacenza
Brand Identity and Communication Designer, Freelance
Italy
Daniela Santamaria
Graphic Designer
United Kingdom