The Berlin IFA is one of the world’s biggest consumer electronics convention shows and brings together more than 1,500 international exhibitors and draws up to 200,000 visitors.
‘Messe Berlin’, the huge convention area in the centre of Berlin where the fair is taking place have already said that because of the huge demand this year, display space is almost fully booked up already.
At [...] Continue Reading…
Saturday 1st September
A brutal misunderstanding.
Tarantino. Lavalamps. Westerns.
Boogaloo. Surf. Raw. Smooth.
Superjazz. Bruut.
They balance the colourful with the unpolished, and the danceable with the listenable.
In short: Bruut! is all about – super jazz.
Maarten Hogenhuis – sax
Folkert Oosterbeek – hammond
Thomas Rolff – double bass
Felix Schlarmann – drums
Saturday, 01. September.2012 -2100 hrs.
WALDO BAR
Torstrasse 164
Berlin Mitte
Waldo Bar info @ – http://www.waldo-berlin.de/waldo_bar_Homepage/Home.html
Read our last JAZZ review here – http://www.ota-berlin.de/blog/07/09/concert-review-julia-oschewsky-band-nl-b-flat-club-berlin-by-ota-berlin-constituency-blog-contributor-w-van-coeveren/
Classical [...] Continue Reading…
Colour does help in the Northern German climate to give buildings a bit of a uplift – anything but dull grey!
From the great and majestic Brandenburg gate [actually a lot smaller when seen live] to the modernity of the Jewish Museum and the Philharmonie building – Berlin does have some great world architecture.
Big name modern architecture like Mies van der Rohe, Le [...] Continue Reading…
Chancelor Angela Merkel leaves for China tomorrow accompanied by a usual large entourage of business delegates just so that there can be no confusion about the actual nature of the visit.
When she recently visited Canada for a day visit, she did the same thing. http://www.ota-berlin.de/blog/08/16/merkel-meets-harper-cunning-bambi-meets-dour-elmer-fudd-ota-berlin-constituency-blog-commentary-by-emil-hoogensteyn/
“China, Germany sign $15 billion deals” wrote the China Daily about Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao’ visit earlier this year and [...] Continue Reading…
Dear Guests and Friends of the Piano Salon -
Concert invitations for this coming Wednesday, the 29th 08th at 20.30 hrs.
One of my dearest companions of the salon, the conductor and pianist Mr Michael Abramovich may be heard in a Chopin evening.
On the program are Frederic Chopin works the the Allegro de concert op 46 and the No.2 and 3 Sonatas Op 35 [...] Continue Reading…
The fiftieth anniversary season of the German Bundesliga -which was founded in 1963 – started this weekend with Bayern München making an immediate positive impression.
With impressive performances from new signings Mario Mandzukic, Xherdan Shaqiri and world class Dutch star Arjen Robben seemingly back in form, it seems under their new general sports director Matthias Sammer, that Bayern München have made the correct signings [...] Continue Reading…
One of cultural Berlin’s best-known events is called ‘The Long Night of Museums’/ Lange Nacht der Museen, and it is just that and so successfull have they proven to be that they are onto to the 31 st one now – there are two annually the last one being held in January earlier this year. And there are no less than 110 museums/galleries from which [...] Continue Reading…
Live Piano in Berlin - the two pianos series mit Benjamin Moser und Severin von Eckardstein Debussy: 12 Preludes -Band 1 Tschaikowski: Klavierkonzert No.1 b-moll in der Version für 2 Flügel Solist: Benjamin Moser
www.benjaminmoser.com www.severin-eckardstein.de
And to top the weekend one of the arriviertesten young German pianist Benjamin Moser is on Sunday, 02 09th at 20.30 h to give a piano recital with [...] Continue Reading…
See also- http://www.ota-berlin.de/blog/04/09/interesting-buildings-in-berlin-2-a-colourful-building-in-kreuzberg-zossener-strase-near-corner-gneisenaustrase/
and – http://www.ota-berlin.de/blog/05/02/%E2%80%98black-maze-building-berlin%E2%80%99-am-rosa-luxenburg-platz-berlin-mitte-entfernt-50m-von-ota-berlin-serviced-apartments/
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In the late 19th century, Berlin turned from a courtly seat of an upstart principality into a bustling and modern city – Berlin was nothing short of boomtown in the later part of the 19th century. It was the court of the Hohenzollern family that dominated the city in the 1880s and the era was also referred to [...] Continue Reading…
Die Friedrichwerdersche Kirche steht gegenüber vom Auswärtigen Amt am Werderschen Markt des Friedrichwerders. Das Wort Werder bezieht sich auf eine Flussinsel bzw. auf einen gegen Wasser geschütztes oder schützendes Land, ähnlich wie der Wehr. In Berlin allerdings, hat sich das Wort Deich durchgesetzt.
Die Kirche wurde im zweiten Weltkrieg zerstört und erst in den 80er Jahren wieder aufgebautt. Die Kirche entstand für die [...] Continue Reading…
See also- http://www.ota-berlin.de/blog/04/09/interesting-buildings-in-berlin-2-a-colourful-building-in-kreuzberg-zossener-strase-near-corner-gneisenaustrase/
and – http://www.ota-berlin.de/blog/05/02/%E2%80%98black-maze-building-berlin%E2%80%99-am-rosa-luxenburg-platz-berlin-mitte-entfernt-50m-von-ota-berlin-serviced-apartments/
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In the late 19th century, Berlin turned from a courtly seat of an upstart principality into a bustling and modern city – Berlin was nothing short of boomtown in the later part of the 19th century. It was the court of the Hohenzollern family that dominated the city in the 1880s and the era was also referred to [...] Continue Reading…
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