Today the German parliament, the Bundestag voted in favor of German tax-payers money be used to increase the Euro-zone rescue fund to circa 440 billion Euro. This is a powerful signal to the international financial markets, and it shows that Germany takes its European responsibility seriously . It was also a personal win for Angela Merkel and Wolfgang Schäuble, her [...] Continue Reading…
The British Foreign Secretary Hague – who must have won the ‘upper class twit of the year award’ at least once – has likened the Euro zone to a ‘a burning house without any exits’
The arrogant and affected Hague then went on with another of those patent absurdities claiming that the Euro was a ‘historical monument of collective stupidity’.
He [...] Continue Reading…
This interesting picture was sent in by Blog reader Etienne from France and he asked us what an colourful Indian Head neon-light is doing looking down onto Alexanderplatz………without any identification of what it is supposed to be!
Perhaps we should call it a North American native peoples head otherwise many may think of India!
And only certain tribes in North America had this type [...] Continue Reading…
THE TWO-PIANOS SERIES
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Olha Chipak und Oleksiy Kushnir
an zwei Flügeln
Eines der besten und preisgekröntesten Klavierduos der Welt
Werke von Brahms und Mozart
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Dear Friends of the Piano Salon Christophori – Please note a program change for next Friday:
In the coming week is one of the most beautiful and illustrious tradition continued in the salon concerts, the piano of the two [...] Continue Reading…
Imaginative ‘Home-Made’ Posters from the Anti-Pope-Visit Berlin 22nd Septemeber 2011
More than 10,000 Berliners protested on a sunny early evening along the Under den Linden Boulevard while the Pope was saying mass across town at the Olympic stadium.
Protesters brought up a range of various controversial issues like, priest celibacy requirements, women [or lack thereof] in the church, gay rights, [...] Continue Reading…
Schalke Coach resigns!
Ralf Rangnick has resigned as head coach of German Bundesliga club Schalke 04 earlier today citing health reasons.
According to a to a press release from the club, the 53 year Rangnick has been suffering from something similar to ‘chronic-fatigue-syndrome’ which is just perhaps another way of saying he is just stressed out – and needs to withdraw from stressful situations [...] Continue Reading…
Klavierabend
mit
Esther Birringer
Beethoven: Sonate op.57 “Appassionata”
Chopin: Ballade Nr.3 op.47
Liszt: Dante-Sonate
Dear Friends of the Piano Salon Christophori-
This week, two very different piano recitals with lots of different colors will bring the piano to be heard in its full glory!
The famous young pianist Esther Birringer, winner of numerous piano competitions, is the first time one evening in the piano lounge this evening -Thursday, [...] Continue Reading…
Angela Merkel – foto Wikipedia – author Armin Linnartz
For many if not most British and American news sources today’s Berlin election proves once again that as usual when reporting Europe the policy is ‘any-news-is-bad-news’.
Look at the following misleading headlines.
“Merkel and eurosceptic allies beaten in Berlin” from Reuters – http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/18/germany-election-idUSL5E7KI0N420110918
“Merkel party loses in Berlin poll” BBC News – http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14966358
“Merkel’s CDU Suffers Defeat in [...] Continue Reading…
Kurt Sanderling, a legend and doyen of German conductors, has died at the age of 98, just one day before his 99th birthday.
His last public concert with “his” orchestra, the ‘Berlin Symphony Orchestra’ had been on 19th May in 2002, when he was 89 whereupon he decided to retire from public life.
This orchestra now is known as the ‘Konzerthausorchester Berlin’ – http://www.konzerthaus.de/konzerthausorchester/portraet.php?id_language=2
In [...] Continue Reading…
Tempelhof Airport in 1984 – foto Wikipedia by TSGT Jose Lopez Jr., US Air Force
Organic sunflowers, hot peppers, chestnut trees, paprika, millet, kale and chestnut trees is what one smells now between the former runways of the airport Tempelhof instead of aviation fuel.
Where expensive business jets landed and were parked side by side as late as the 2008 World Cup held in [...] Continue Reading…
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