Chancellor Angela Merkel will host Gordon Brown, Nicolas Sarkozy of France, Hillary Clinton, the American Secretary of State and Dimitry Medvedev of Russia in the celebrations.
A classical concert at the site of the wall will begin the party, followed by Bon Jovi performing their latest single "We Weren't Born to Follow."
ater 1,000 eight feet high dominos will topple along a former path of the wall.
"They represent the chain reaction that the fall of the wall sparked off in Europe and the world," according to a statement by the organisers. The first domino will be pushed over by Lech Walesa and Miklos Nemeth, the veteran Polish and Hungarian anti-communist campaigners. They will be joined by two other main actors in the drama of 1989: the former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev and Hans-Dietrich Genscher, the then West German foreign minister.
The Berlin Wall was the front line of the Cold War for 28 years, two months and 27 days until its barriers were lifted on November 9, 1989.
A total of 239 people died attempting to breach the division of the city while a further 753 people lost their lives in trying to break through the fortifications that stretched across the entire border.
The country, together with the wall it built, went out of business when Moscow under Gorbachev said it would no longer underwrite the politburo.
There will be firework displays, open air dancing and even a parade of Trabants, the two-stroke engined runabouts of East Germany that streamed westwards as soon as the border opened.
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