May 16th, 2012
![800px-Olympicstadium2[1] Berlin Olympic Stadium - foto from Wikipedia by Chrisgj6](http://www.ota-berlin.de/blog/wp-content/800px-Olympicstadium21-150x150.jpg)
“Hertha needs to start filling its stadium – the Olympic Stadium of Berlin” is what I wrote some months ago, however the picture you see above of a wonderful stadium is empty and will remain so at least to now 2nd division German team Hertha Berlin.
Fortuna Düsseldorf secured their place in the First Bundesliga and thereby consigned Hertha Berlin to the 2nd [...] Continue Reading…
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May 15th, 2012
![merkel4[1]](http://www.ota-berlin.de/blog/wp-content/merkel41-150x150.jpg)
Angela Merkel met the newly appointed French President Hollande in Berlin this evening.
It was more a getting-to-know each other type of meeting and an opportunity to again clear the air, or at least clean the air of the former French President, Sarkozy.
President Hollande’s trip began in rather inauspicious circumstances when the President’s plane was apparently hit by lightning climbing out of Paris [...] Continue Reading…
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May 14th, 2012

Concert Review Sunday 13th May 2012
Place Sankt-Georgen-Kirche 23966 Wismar
NDR Sinfonieorchester conducted by Thomas Hengelbrock
Program -Schumann’s 3rd Symphony & Brahms 1st Symphony
The ‘Rolls Royce’ is in this case the NDR Sinfonieorchester and the venue the still being renovated huge and captivating space of the Sankt-Georgen-Kirche in the old Hansa city of Wismar in northern Germany – which unbeknown by most – [...] Continue Reading…
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May 13th, 2012

Mozart Klavierkonzert KV 467 C-dur und Beethoven Klavierkonzert op. 37 c-moll, jeweils in der Version für 2 Flügel.
In der nächsten Woche denn am Mittwoch, dem 16. 05. um 20.30 h ein Konzert für 2 Klaviere mit Eleonora Palvanova und Barno Haknazarova: Mozart Klavierkonzert KV 467 C-dur und Beethoven Klavierkonzert op. 37 c-moll, jeweils in der Version für 2 Flügel.
Wie gehabt kann man [...] Continue Reading…
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May 12th, 2012

Borussia Dortmund beat Bayern München to win 2012 DFB-Pokal or German Cup this evening in a full Berlin Olympic stadium in the presence of the Bundes Chancellor Angela Merkel and the German President.
Everyone expected that a Borussia Dortmund vs. Bayern München game – always highly anticipated matches – was going to produce goals and they were not disappointed. All told seven goals [...] Continue Reading…
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May 11th, 2012

It is the second time that such a rivalry laden meeting takes place between Bundesliga first-place team Borussia Dortmund and the classic German winning team of Bayern Munich in the DFB Cup.http://www.dfb.de/index.php?id=3104
In the 2008 DFB-Pokal - which was then held also in the Berlin Olympic Stadium- by two goals from Luca Toni won 2-1 after extra time decided the outcome. Mladen Petric had equalized just before [...] Continue Reading…
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May 10th, 2012

Prenzlauer Berg als ehemaliger Bezirk am Rande der Berliner Ost-West-Grenze hat auch schon vor der Teilung Deutschlands eine lange Geschichte durchgemacht. Die Industrialisierung in den 20er und 30er Jahren führte sehr viele Firmen und Unternehmer nach Prenzlauer Berg. Viele der alten Industriegebäude sind zwar heute noch erhalten, jedoch die meisten im 2. Weltkrieg zerstört worden.
Nach dem Fall der Mauer 1989, fristete Prenzlauer [...] Continue Reading…
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May 9th, 2012

Berlin ist ja für schnelle Veränderung bekannt. Sehr große Veränderungen werden längerfristig geplant, manchmal ist die einberechnete Zeit jedoch zu kurz. Wie bei der Geschichte der Berliner Flughäfen. Berlin mit seinen Ursprünglich vier Flughäfen war schon immer Dreh- und Angelpunkt für den Luftverkehr.
Die Teilung Deutschlands zwang die Berliner zum umdenken. Da Westberlin eine vergleichsweise kleine Fläche war, mussten die vorhandenen Flugplätze gut [...] Continue Reading…
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May 8th, 2012

“Die Humboldt-Box setzt in Berlin einen selbstbewussten Akzent auf die Museumsinsel und macht Berlin um eine Attraktion reicher. Entworfen vom Berliner Architekten-Trio Krüger, Schuberth und Vandreike strahlt die Humboldt-Box zwischen den historischen Bauten in Berlins Mitte eine futuristische Leichtigkeit aus. Sie ist die architektonische Umsetzung der Idee des Temporären. Und ist über den befristeten Zeitraum von acht Jahren, bis voraussichtlich 2019, ein [...] Continue Reading…
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May 7th, 2012

Die erfolgreichen digitalen Konferenzen re:publica und NEXT schließen sich während der Berlin Web Week 2012 zusammen. Neben der re:publica und NEXT finden noch weitere Veranstaltung wie der European Venture Market, StartupWeekend Berlin oder Spotify Tech Talk Berlin statt, die diese Woche zum größten europäischen Festival der digitalen Szene macht. Während sich die re:publica vor allem um die Anwendung des Internets, digitaler Medien [...] Continue Reading…
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May 6th, 2012
![800px-Raffael_Caetano_de_Araújo_-_Hertha_BSC_Berlin_(2)[1] Raffael Caetano de Araújo_-_Wikipedia foto - source Steindy (talk) 23:13, 17 July 2009 (UTC)](http://www.ota-berlin.de/blog/wp-content/800px-Raffael_Caetano_de_Araújo_-_Hertha_BSC_Berlin_211-300x199.jpg)
So it was going to be either Hertha BSC Berlin or FC Köln which survived yesterdays – both mainstays of the German Bundesliga for the past ½ century – and the one to definitively drop-out became Koln.
On the 34th Bundesliga match-day Hertha needed to win at home to Hoffenheim and they had to hope that Koln would get a good thrashing at [...] Continue Reading…
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