Berlin 31-01-2010
Roman Polanski won’t be coming to the Berlin Film Festival next month – in spite of a premier of his latest film -and there won’t be any videotaped message as had been speculated.
Roman Polanski is under house arrest in Switzerland and has been to the Berlinale many times in the past – he says he loves the positive artistic atmosphere in [...] Continue Reading…
Berlin 30-01-2010
Almost 80 percent – four in five Germans – oppose Berlin’s plans to increase its number of troops in Afghanistan.
This, according to a poll released Wednesday, a day before the international London conference on Afghanistan.
Germany presently has 4,300 troops in the northern part of the Afghanistan, the third largest contingent in the US led mission.
The number of German defence personnel in [...] Continue Reading…
Berlin 29-01-2010
Renowned British architect Norman Foster will take part in a debate about the future of cinema buildings and their changing role in world cities as part of the ‘Berlin International Film Festival’ on 14th February.
He is best known for his modern glass and steel structures, which have included the restoration of the Berlin Reichstag building in Berlin, the Hong Kong-Shanghai Bank [...] Continue Reading…
Berlin 28 – 01- 2010
Liebe Freunde der Klaviermusik,
eine wichtige Berichtigung, die Wasserleitung wird am Freitag instand gesetzt, so daß wir das für Donnerstag geplante Konzert nun am Samstag, dem 30.01. um 20.3o h stattfinden lassen können:
Nach all den unglaublichen Pianisten, welche in den letzten Wochen im Piano Salon zu hören waren, darf ich in dieser Woche zu einem weiteren großen und zu [...] Continue Reading…
Berlin 27 – 01 – 2010
Liebe Freunde der Klaviermusik, nach all den unglaublichen Pianisten, welche in den letzten Wochen im Piano Salon zu hören waren, darf ich in dieser Woche zu einem weiteren großen und zu meinen persönlichen Favoriten zählenden Pianisten einladen, Michael Abramovich.
Am Donnerstag, dem 28.01. um 20.30h wird der als Pianist und Dirigent international bekannt gewordene Michael Abramovich einen Abend [...] Continue Reading…
Berlin 27 – 01 – 2010
Mr Simon Peres is visiting Berlin for ‘Holocaust Memorial Day’ on Wednesday, which in 2010 marks the 65th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concetration camp by the victorious Red Army.
Today a delegation of Holocaust survivors along with German President Horst Koehler and Mr Peres will visit former ‘Grunewald railway station’ in north-west Berlin. Its’ infamous [...] Continue Reading…
Berlin 26-01-2010
Pianist - Carson Becke Violinist – Daniel Pioro [Fotos: Peter Freudenreich]
Last week’s OTA-Berlin sponsored concerts at the Piano Salon Christophori were well attended and enthusiastically reviewed.
We hope to see them both back in Berlin soon again – they have a ‘fan-base’ slowly growing here.
Both young artists returned to London to immediately perform other concerts – with Carson Becke performing at [...] Continue Reading…
Berlin 26-01-2010
Germany will host a meeting of finance ministers of 19 major industrialised and developing nations in Berlin this coming May, a month ahead of the G-20 Summit in to be held in Canada in June.
Theme of that conference will be how best to regulate international financial markets in the future.
The German government and its Finance Ministry want to actively participate in [...] Continue Reading…
Berlin 25-01-2010
There are some foreign policies that Angela Merkel seems not to like to talk about. One is Afghanistan and the other is the on-going strife between Israelis and Palestinians.
While Merkel seems willing to go against the very strong public will of the German electorate and increase Germany’s troop numbers in Afghanistan, she lacks the courage to oppose the ultra-nationalist, right-wing Israeli [...] Continue Reading…
Bridge Art Fair at OTA-Berlin
Berlin 24-01-2010
While circa 20% per cent of Berliners are dependent on some sort of social or state support to survive – in the comparatively rich southern state of Bavaria, only about 5% of people live on or need state aid.
From an economic standpoint Berlin is a bit of a basket case – the jobless rate is around 17% [...] Continue Reading…
Berlin 22-01-2010
The Berlinale – aka Berlin International Film Festival – today announced that new movies from the Amercian directors Nicole Holofcener and Noah Baumbach will be featured this year.
A world premiere of Noah Baumbach’s movie ‘Greenberg’, with actor Ben Stiller – this follows another sucessful Baumbach written and directed film ‘The Squid and the Whale’.
The film ‘Please Give’ by Nicole Holofcener will have [...] Continue Reading…
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