The new film ‘Shutter Island’ by director Martin Scorsese’s will premiere at the Berin Film Festival next February, but will not be competing for the Golden Bear prize – the best film of the Berlinale.
The organizers of the Berlinale only select 26 films for the festival’s competition lineup.
It will be Sorsese’s latest film and stars Leonardo DiCaprio.
The film – a drama ‘horror-thriller’ [...] Continue Reading…
Berlin 18-12-2009
It may be a “virtual” star that will highlight next year’s Berlinale film festival.
A new film by French/Polish director Roman Polanski has been selected to premiere there however he remains under house-arrest in Switzerland. A live video feed could have the embattled director participate from distance.
His new politcal drama, ’The Ghost Writer’ -by the former english journalist and BBC reporter Robert Harris – will feature Pierce [...] Continue Reading…
Berlin 18-12-2009
Polish police have said that the iron sign over the gate to the Auschwitz-Birkenau memorial with the now famous humiliating phrase ‘Arbeit macht frei’ has been stolen.
The police believe it was taken between 3 a.m. and 5 a.m. in the early morning and yet do not know whether it was a result of vandalism with a political motive or just the more [...] Continue Reading…
Berlin 18 –12 –2009
Wolfgang Schäuble, Germany’s finance minister, has warned of a severe fiscal crackdown after the immediate effects of the economic crisis are over, and has said that combating a budget deficit in these times could not be done using old conventional means.
Experts have been sharply critical of the planned tax cut legislation by Germany’s coalition government of conservative CDU and [...] Continue Reading…
Berlin 18-12-2009
Hertha Berlin football club came from the very depths of the Bundesliga – to everyone’s’ dismay – yesterday and defeated Sporting Lisbon 1-0 to become one of the last 32 teams remaining in the Europa League.
The only goal and the winner came in the 70th minute from Hertha midfielder Nicu who passed into the box where Kacar put it easily into [...] Continue Reading…
Berlin 11-Dec-2009
The EADS/Airbus A400M military transport took off for the first time today in Seville Spain, a good sign that Europe’s largest defence project is literally off the ground.
The A400M was launched in 2003 with an order for 180 planes from seven governments and is now 4 years late. partly because of engine-development issues.There is a risk that the program may be [...] Continue Reading…
Liebe Freunde der Klavierabende,
ich darf für den kommenden Freitag, den 18.12.09 und den Samstag, den 19.12. jeweils um 20.30h zu für uns mit einiger Tradition daherkommenden Jazz Abenden einladen.
Am Freitag werden der Kopenhagener Bassist Max Nauta und der Pianist Mark Reinke sehr skandinavisch, sehr melancholisch, sehr winterlich und unglaublich eingängig musizieren, hier wird so manches Weihnachtslied anklingen… Wer es noch nicht kennt [...] Continue Reading…
Berlin – 09-12-2009
The last match of the both Hertha Berlin and Bayern Munich in this years Bundesliga will be played in Bayern on 19 December with Bayern hot and Hertha down and almost out.
Bayern scored a memorable and well-deserved victory yesterday over old Italian rival Juventus which will take them to the last 16 and knockout stages at the expense of the [...] Continue Reading…
Berlin 13-12-2009
Barak, the dyer or tanner, is the actual hero of Richard Strauss’s masterpiece opera, ‘Die Frau ohne Schatten’ which the Deutsche Oper staged yesterday evening in Berlin.
This last performance of the opera for the 2009/2010 season was conducted by Axel Kober, with vocal soloists Robert Brubaker, Manuela Uhl, Jane Henschel, Eva Johansson and Johan Reuter as Barak.
The orchestra, conductor and both [...] Continue Reading…
A disagreement over a deadly airstrike in Afghanistan this September hangs heavily over the newly elected coalition government of German Chancellor Angela Merkel. It may yet prove to be the undoing of her previously held support to meet a US request to send more German troops.
Germany presently has 4,500 soldiers in the country.
The botched airstrike on two fuel trucks – which had [...] Continue Reading…
Berlin 09-12-2009
Axel Springer AG , based in Berlin released its first fee-based online products yesterday, the publisher announced.
The internet has become a double whammy for classic print-newspapers because they are losing print subscribers to their on-line sites, at the same time most people reason that online news should be free and remain free.
Springer, which publishes the largest selling daily in Europe – Bild – [...] Continue Reading…
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