Berlin will host the MTV Europe Music Awards this coming Thursday, 5th November. The German pop rock band Tokio Hotel will provide the local content and perform alongside the likes of U.S. rapper Jay-Z and Latin pop star Shakira.
The MTV Europe Music Awards were established in 1994 by MTV Networks Europe to celebrate the most popular music videos in Europe. Originally beginning [...] Continue Reading…
Yesterday German Chancellor Angela Merkel became only the second German leader in history to give a speech to both houses of the U.S. Congress. One of the many issues she avoided raising is her new coalition government’s controversial commitment to remove all U.S. nuclear weapons from German soil within the next few years
Rough estimates put around 20 U.S. B-61 nuclear-type bombs being [...] Continue Reading…
The Argentinian born conductor Daniel Barenboim said Wednesday he felt moved to be yet again leading an orchestra in Berlin, 20 years after staging a free concert to mark the fall of the Berlin Wall.
He was in Berlin on November 9 1989 to conduct the Berlin Symphony Orchestra for a recording session in the Dahlem district of then West Berlin. Members of [...] Continue Reading…
What is probably the most interesting, compelling and artistic commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall is the WALL PROJECT taking place in Los Angeles.
Artists have provided works that show clear analogies between the Berlin Wall and the wall the Israelis have erected along the border with the occupied Palestinians and the wall the US has erected [...] Continue Reading…
A completely restored version of the German silent movie classic<<Metropolis>>, will premiere next year at the Berlin International Film Festival on February 12, 2010.
This science-fiction work premiered in pre-nazi Germany in Berlin. The original 153-minute version of 1927 was not a great success and was subsequently greatly edited.
A great deal of this original version disappeared after the war and was believed to [...] Continue Reading…
Classical Symphony orchestras around the world are about as methodical and orderly that it borders on the obsessive-compulsive. They plan concerts some times 5 ahead. And so now to quell any uncertainly, not that there was any major doubt – he is popular among the musicians and the public- the Berliner Philharmonie has announced not only that it will maintain Simon Rattle [...] Continue Reading…
Donnerstag, den 05.11.2009 um 20.30h
Geigerin Nadja Zwiener wird begleitet von dem Pianisten Michael Abramovich die ersten beiden Schumann Violinsonaten spielen.
“Daß Nadja Zwiener die Tür zu unserem Piano Salon gefunden hat, ist ein Wunder, ist sich doch unter den Geigerinnen ein absoluter Superstar, Konzertmeisterin eines der renommiertesten Orchester der Welt, von The English Concert unter Trevor Pinnock. Sie hat auf unzähligen Aufnahmen mitgewirkt, [...] Continue Reading…
[In German a big gyp, or a fraud type scandal is called a <<Schweinerei>>.]
In Berlin a system of you <<pay what you think this is worth>> system has been in operation for over a decade at the Berlin Weinerei.
It may sound like a completely backward way of running a business, but in fact you go and eat, [and drink after 2000hrs!] and [...] Continue Reading…
The Netherlands Embassy – a disciplined but isolated cube building in Central Berlin designed by the Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas in 2003 – was pelted by paint-bombs and rocks yesterday.
Apparently it was solidarity-squatters in Berlin who were responsible as gesture of camaraderie with fellow Dutch squatters.
According to new laws enacted recently, squatting has been made un-lawful in the Netherlands since October [...] Continue Reading…
Deutsche Bahn – known in Germany simply as Die Bahn or DB – the state-owned German national rail company is preparing itself for competition with its largest European rival the also French state-owned counterpart, the SNCF.
This comes after recent reports, from amongst others, Die Welt newspaper, that SNCF was intending to compete directly with DB on several city-pairs routes within Germany itself. [...] Continue Reading…
In celebration of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall, an event which united a country and changed Eastern and Central Europe for the better has inspired U2 to play a free concert on November 5th.
The Irish rock band announced a free show at the Brandenburg Gate and will be broadcast as part of the MTV Europe Music Awards [...] Continue Reading…
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