Berlin 30-06-2010
The Bundes Chancellor Angela Merkel’s candidate, Christian Wulff, won enough votes on the 3rd ballot to secure the German presidency in Berlin today.
In the first round Wulff won only 600 votes in the 1,244-member assembly, while the opposition candidate, Joachim Gauck, received 499 votes – the 3rd candidate from the Linke party, Luc Jochimsen, got 126 votes.
On the 2nd vote, Wulff [...] Continue Reading…
Berlin 30-06-2010
Battle of Berlin / Schlacht um Berlin – is a 1973 German documentary film directed by Franz Baake and Jost von Morr.
It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
It will be presented every Thursday at the Babylon movie theatre as a matinee at 1400 hrs.
http://www.babylonberlin.de/Programm.htm
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Battle of Berlin / Schlacht um Berlin – Die legendäre, Oscar- nominierte Dokumentation von Chronos- Film [...] Continue Reading…
Berlin 30-06-2010
The photographer Marianne Breslauer was born in Berlin in 1909 and took lessons in photography in Berlin from 1927 to 1929, where she became an admirer of the then well-known portrait photographer Frieda Riess and of the Hungarian André Kertész.
While she always saw herself more as a photographic reporter than anything else in 1929 she travelled to Paris, where she became [...] Continue Reading…
Berlin/Cape Town 30-06-2010
Talis-woman Chancellor Angela Merkel to support German national team in crucial World Cup fixture against Argentina in South Africa this coming Saturday
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who shares an equal weakness for both opera and football [ as some other notable personages] will travel to South Africa to support the German national team in their quarter-final encounter with Argentina – a must [...] Continue Reading…
Berlin 29-06-2010
A 400-year-old canvas which has been attributed to the Italian master Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio - an Italian artist active in Rome, Naples, Malta, and Sicily between 1593 and 1610 – which was stolen nearly 2 years ago from a museum in Odessa, Ukraine and presumed lost has been discovered by German police.
A group of international of art thieves – and [...] Continue Reading…
Berlin 28-06-2010
In world football, Germany against England is always a highly anticipated contest. However when it finds itself taking place in the ‘round-of-16’ knockout stage of World Cup this scintillating encounter takes on an increased level of importance.
Neither side had been particularly impressive thus far in the South African tournament.
There were almost 500,000 German fans on the ‘Fan-Mile’ where the game was [...] Continue Reading…
Asamoah Gyan is the new Ghanaian national football hero whose spectacular goal in the 2nd period of extra time took his team to the last 8 remaining teams at the World Cup.
Normally he plays his soccer as a striker for [lowly!] Stade Rennais in the French ‘Ligue 1’ but his goal yesterday rightfully elevated his name to new heights – he was [...] Continue Reading…
Berlin 27-06-2010
‘freitag um acht’ - Studio Niculescu in Kreuzberg
2. July 2010, 20 Uhr
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“Von Beethoven bis Prokofiev”
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Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Prokofiev
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Berlin / Durban 26- 06 -2010
World Cup 2010 – Uruguay first team through to next round – Luis Suárez with delightful double goals
Uruguay’s Luis Suárez celebrated with his 2 goals in the World Cup game against South Korea today – taking his total to 55 goals in 61 games for club and country over the 2009/2010 football season.
It therefore seems, unfortunately for [...] Continue Reading…
Berlin / Toronto 25-06-2010
German Chancellor Merkel has defended her savings programme ahead of this weekend’s G20 summit in Toronto Canada -her agenda will be to secure an agreement for a bank and financial transaction tax.
She has constantly reminded anyone interested in listening that according to her ‘savings programmes speed up private consumption because they give people a sense of security’.
Her policies are [...] Continue Reading…
Berlin
After some brilliant and heroic efforts of goal tender Manuel Neuer and two blocking saves that Germany’s captain Lahm made Ghana were denied at 3 goals!
Ghana played exceptionally well, and because Germany was playing offensive, and going for the win, they created many excellent scoring chances – the US team will have their hands full in their quarter final game against them.
It [...] Continue Reading…
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