Berlin 24-06-2010
Germany has officially castigated Israel for preventing its Development Minister Dirk Niebel from entering Gaza to meet Palestinian refugees during his recent fact-finding mission to the region.
Niebel had wanted to visit the Hamas-run Palestinian territory to meet with members of the UN ‘Relief and Works Agency’ for Palestine refugees.
The German Foreign Minister Westerwelle regretted the move by the Israeli government, and restated [...] Continue Reading…
Berlin 23-06-2010
Robert Schumann – www.foto-face.com
Dear friends,
as some of you might know, during the past 2 years the talented pianist Dan Deutsch and I have been specializing as a duo in the field of Art Song (Lied) in the music academy in Hamburg under the guidance of well-known Lied pianist Burkhard Kehring, as members of the newly founded Masters Program for Lied-duos.
In the beginning [...] Continue Reading…
Berlin 22-06-2010
One of few still operational DC3 planes in the world – with the aircraft registry ‘D-CXXX’ carrying 25 tourists – last Saturday had to make an emergency landing near Berlin Schoenfeld airport.
On board was a CDU Parliment member Stefan Kaufmann from Stuttgart who got a ticket for the flight as a 40th birthday gift.
Three crew members and four passengers received minor [...] Continue Reading…
Berlin 22-06-2010
Konzertsaal Friedrichshain
Zellestraße 12
10247 Berlin
[5 min. walk -close to U-Bahn + S-Bahn stations Frankfurter Tor]
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Liebe Freunde des Salons,
ich darf zu einem besonderen Konzertabend einladen:
Die Musiker des Abends: Die Klarinettistin Shirley Brill, ist eine der atemberaubendsten, die ich je gehört habe, und wird vom zweiten Teil des renommierten Duo Brillaner, vom Pianisten Jonathan Aner, mit nicht minder herauragender Brillanz begleitet. Dem Bariton Assaf [...] Continue Reading…
Berlin/ Cape Town / Johannesburg 21-06-2010
Cameroon’s defeat to Denmark – great loss and misery for the Africans but a really great game with two brilliant Danish goals -which saw the ‘Indomitable’ Lions become the first team out of the tournament. Will we miss them?
Yesterday evening Brazil sent the Ivory Coast out of the tournement – will we miss them? DidierDrogba we will [...] Continue Reading…
Berlin 21-06-2010
On June 21st, Northern Europeans, mostly Scandinavians but also Berliners celebrate the summer solstice -longest day of the year and the official beginning of summer.
In Berlin this will be done with the aid of a city-wide music festival called ‘Fete de la Musique’ – the city will celebrate the beginning of summer with a variety of free live concerts at around [...] Continue Reading…
Berlin 20-06-2010
JS Bach – www.foto-face.com
Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy – www.foto-face.com
Joachim Dalitz, organist of the ‘Schauspielhaus am Gendarmenmarkt’ -Concert House Berlin – will give the last of the summer organ concerts this coming Saturday the 26th of June – concert starts in the afternoon at 1530 hrs.
Works include JS Bach’s Partita “Sie gegusset, Jesu gutig” BWV 768, Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy’s Praludium and Fugue and Louis Verne’s [...] Continue Reading…
Berlin 19-06-2010
Franz Beckenbauer, the world renown German football coach, manager, and former international player - aka ‘Der Kaiser’ or Emperor because of both his elegant leadership style and his dominance on the football pitch- is in the news this week, but hardly for the right reasons.
He is often referred to as the greatest German footballer - he was voted 2nd place, behind Johan [...] Continue Reading…
Berlin/ Cape Town / Johannesburg 18-06-2010
Yesterday at the World Cup – France’s ‘ Les Blues’ suffered a lacklustre defeat by glorius Mexico.
I cannot remember a team ever playing less for their manager than this French team did for Monsieur Domenech last night.
It seemed that the whole French team, with the exception of Ribery and Malouda were asleep – they lost possession and simply did [...] Continue Reading…
Berlin 18-06-2010
http://www.world-cup-2010-south-africa.com/
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After 768 Votes the ‘OTA-Berlin Constituency Blog’ pits the Netherlands as winners against runners-up Argentina in this completely subjective and un-scientific poll.
We wanted simply to have peopel have their say in what is truely a great international sporting event – and unlike other polls which most of the time are based on betting-pools, casinos and gambling syndicates.
To these ‘losers’ who waste their money ‘betting’ [...] Continue Reading…
Berlin/Werder Bremen/ Cape Town / Johannesburg 17-06-2010
Everyone had heard of Michael Ballack’s injury and his absence from the German World Cup team in South Africa , along with the national team’s extreme youth and the paucity of any veterans to rely on.
However surprisingly the team has done very well indeed thus far – and due largely due to the fresh football intelligence and art [...] Continue Reading…
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