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Archive for January, 2010

German capital Berlin spotlights Young new designers on international fashion stage – Paris & Milan move over!

Thursday, January 21st, 2010

 Berlin   21-01-2010

The Berlin ‘Bread & Butter Fashion Week’ returns to Berlin this year for the 6th time from 20th – 23rd January and looks like it will add to former successes.

30 fashion-shows have been planned to show the new up-and-coming trends for winter season 2010/2011.

Over paid, under-talented, age-challenged and spoiled ‘established designers’ like German and ex-pat German designers Wolfgang Joop and Karl Lagerfeld will [...] Continue Reading…

Critical Independent report points to EADS/Airbus’s inept accounting

Wednesday, January 20th, 2010

Berlin   20-01-2010

For any pilot who will have to fly them, falling asleep in the cockpit of the new EADS/Airbus A400M military transporter is never a good idea – but that is exactly what the managment of the company building the new airplane , EADS/Airbus, seems to have done.

A PricewaterhouseCoopers audit  – which was commissioned by the buyers of the EADS/Airbus A400M military aircraft [...] Continue Reading…

Einladung zur ‘Finissage’ am Samstag, 23.01.2010 um 20.00 Uhr

Wednesday, January 20th, 2010

Berlin    20-01-2010

GMÜR Gallery

präsentiert
NADIRA HUSAIN und
OLIVER ROHE

Einladung zur Finissage am Samstag, 23.01.2010 um 20.00 Uhr
music by madame Claude Simon
Wir präsentieren an diesem Abend mit ‘Fries und Tisch’ ein Heft
das Nadira Husain im Zusammenhang mit der Ausstellung hergestellt hat.

You are cordialy invited to celebrate the finissage on saturday, 23.01.2010 at 8pm with us.

music by madame Claude Simon
At this evening we will present ‘Fries und [...] Continue Reading…

Einladung zu den Salonkonzerten am 21. und 23.01.um 20.30h [ Die Konzerte werden unterstützt durch OTA-Berlin ]

Tuesday, January 19th, 2010

Berlin -  19-01- 2 0 1 0

Liebe Freunde der Salonkonzerte,Ich darf mit großer Freude die Einladung zu den beiden Konzerten dieser Woche versenden: Einer der mutigsten (ein Zitat von Ulugbek Palvanov) und mit erwartungsvollen Prognosen überhäuften jungen Pianisten unserer Tage spielt zwei Konzerte im Piano Salon: der Canadier Carson Becke. Carson, nun 20jährig, gewann mit 15 Jahren den ersten Preis der Rachmaninov International [...] Continue Reading…

Berlinale Film Festival ‘Generation 14plus’ will open with Indian film “Road, Movie”

Monday, January 18th, 2010

 Berlin   18-01-2010

‘Road, Movie’ – a film which has an original screenplay written by Dev Benegal and is co-produced by Susan Landau and Ross Katz – will open this years ‘Generation 14plus’ Berlinale.

 ‘Road, Movie’ is a colourful film about the trials and tribulations of the young Vishnu, played by Abhay Deol. He, a restless young man rejects his parent’s middle-class existence and starts [...] Continue Reading…

Second of two concerts by Canadian Pianist Carson Becke in Berlin – JS Bach, Johannes Brahms and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – sponsored by OTA-Berlin

Sunday, January 17th, 2010
Johannes Brahms

Berlin   17-01-2010

[First Progam 1 - Thursday 21st January  2030 hrs.]

 Second Program  – Saturday 22nd January  23rd     -    2030 hrs

Johannes Brahms
Johann Sebastian Bach
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Bach/Siloti: Organ Prelude in G minor, BWV535

Mozart: Piano Sonata in Eb major, K282

Intermission

Brahms: Piano Sonata no. 2 in F# minor, op. 2

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Pianist  -  Carson Becke       Violinist –  Daniel Pioro

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Location- Piano Salon Christophori

Pappelallee 3-4, Remise

[U-Bahn Eberswalderstrasse]
D-10437 BERLIN

www.konzertfluegel.com

Berlin rumour -Angela Merkel to resign? Not very likely!

Saturday, January 16th, 2010

Berlin    16 – 01 – 2010

Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor has brushed-off rumours  that she might resign. 

While the origin of this resignation rumour remain nebulous and elusive, Berlin observers have recently noticed a distinctly more tired, forlorn and older looking Merkel and comes at a time when her own leadership style is being questioned. 

Criticism from with-in her own CDU party, and in-fighting amongst her center-right [...] Continue Reading…

EADS/Airbus, Germany and other governments agree – ways will be found to support A400M

Friday, January 15th, 2010

Berlin    15-01-2010 

Partner governments in the Airbus A400M military plane have agreed to find an acceptable solution that hangs over the future of Europe’s largest military project to date.

Germany will become by far the single largest A400M customer taking 60 out of the total 180 planes orders thus far. 

EADS/Airbus efforts to impose a strict end-January deadline had irritated political Berlin which in-turn stated [...] Continue Reading…

First of two concerts by Canadian Pianist Carson Becke in Berlin – Karol Szymanowski & Richard Strauss

Thursday, January 14th, 2010
Richard Strauss

Berlin   14-01-2010

First Progam 1 – Thursday 21st January  2030 hrs.

Richard Strauss
Karol Szymanowski

Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata for Piano and Violin no. 7 in C minor, op. 30 no.3

Karol Szymanowski: Two transcriptions of Paganini Caprices for Violin and Piano, op. 40

Szymanowski/Kochanski: Chant de Roxanne

Intermission

Richard Strauss: Sonata for Violin and Piano in Eb major, op. 18

Pianist  -  Carson Becke       Violinist –  Daniel Pioro

Location- Piano [...] Continue Reading…

Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht – German revolutionaries of 90 years ago live on

Wednesday, January 13th, 2010

Berlin 13-01-2101

Many thousands attended a memorial service in Berlin on Sunday to honour Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, two Berlin revolutionaries who were murdered in 1919 by the so-called ‘Frei-korps’ a precursor of the later Nazis. 

‘Die Linke’, the Left Party, – the only official party in the Bundestag which can claim some ancestry to them – said 40, 000 took part in [...] Continue Reading…

Mis-management and Operational/Maintenance crisis at DB run Berliner S-Bahn — Deutsche Bahn legacy of ownership to lose monopoly in Berlin

Wednesday, January 13th, 2010

Berlin   13-01-2010

At a time when Berlin is presently deep in snow – and most dependent on public transport – Berliners have been told that their city will end the DB’s monopoly over its urban train system.

The DB is the  ‘Deutsche Bahn’ – the German National Railway - privatised in 1994- has around  220,000 employees -which makes it Berlin’s largest and one of Germany’s [...] Continue Reading…

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