Archive for the ‘Articles by Filip van der Plas’ Category
Monday, December 31st, 2012
In the Bundesliga in this calendar year 2012, with half-season achieved Bayern Munich is number one - the best of all – and surprisingly with Bayer Leverkusen in an excellent second place 9 points behind the leaders. Just after in third is Borussia Dortmund with one point less.
Of the fifteen clubs in the whole of 2012 were active in the Bundesliga, Bayern [...] Continue Reading…
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Sunday, December 16th, 2012
Ludwig van Beethoven – www.ota-berlin.de
Ludwig van Beethoven was born in Bonn on December 16th 1770.
Even though no actual authenticated record of the date of his birth exists, the registry of his baptism, in a Roman Catholic service at the Parish of St. Regius in Bonn made on 17 December, 1770 survives.
Infants born in Northern Germany at this time were traditionally baptised [...] Continue Reading…
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Friday, November 23rd, 2012
We are getting closer to the long German football winter break and with almost the 1st half of the season and the knock-out stages of the Champions League three German teams stand-out for different reasons.
They are FC Bayern München, Borussia Dortmund and Schalke all teams that managed to stay to the next stage of the Champions League – if with Bayern I [...] Continue Reading…
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Tuesday, November 20th, 2012
We wrote this in the blog in May this year ………….”The above great foto taken of an empty Berlin Olympic Stadium – home of Hertha Berlin Football Club will probably look this empty next year because the team is now offically relegated down a league from the German top Bundesliga.”
So how are they in fact doing there in the 2nd division? If last [...] Continue Reading…
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Thursday, November 15th, 2012
The Netherlands and Germany played to a scoreless draw in yesterday evening’s international friendly at the sold-out Amsterdam Arena Stadium.
What could have been a very exciting match, instead became a match that neither team wanted to lose – it seemed more like an contractual obligation which was signed last year than a game to really measure footballing quality.
It was in some aspects [...] Continue Reading…
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Wednesday, November 14th, 2012
Dutch coach van Gaal has announced his provisional 34-man squad for the upcoming international friendly against Germany tomorrow Wednesday 14th November which will be held at the Amsterdam Arena.
He has opted to include Ajax’s left-back Daley Blind, following his recent run of good form, while the Vitesse ‘wunderkind ‘Marco van Ginkel has also made the team.
The best Dutch goalkeeper, Tim Krul ,is [...] Continue Reading…
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Sunday, November 4th, 2012
Giacomo Puccini (1858 – 1924)
T U R A N D O T – first performance Milano April 1926
Dramma lyrico in three acts; Libretto by Giuseppe Adami and Renato Simoni, after the play by Carlo Gozzi; First performed on 25th April 1929 in Milan; Premiered at the Deutsche Oper Berlin on 13th September 2008
Sung In Italian with German sub-titels
Conductor Jesús López Cobos
Orchester der [...] Continue Reading…
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Friday, November 2nd, 2012
This is the smart logo of JORIS – so working with eating – makes sense!
The whole area on Brunnenstrasse between Invaliden Strasse and Bernauerstrasse in Berlin has been in a state of flux for some years, however things seem to be consolidating themselves more recently.
There are now many interesting local fashions stores, local IT and Software companies –including WeNeSe GmbH on Rheinbergerstrasse [...] Continue Reading…
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Wednesday, October 17th, 2012
Swedes may be disappointed, embarrassed and even feel hatred towards the Swedish government over their complete and utter opportunism in the case regarding WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
However Swedes will have the complete opposite feelings for their national football team who surprised and delighted the whole nation!
It was to be Germany’s northern neighbour who took on Germany yesterday evening – Sweden vs Germany at Berlin [...] Continue Reading…
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Monday, October 15th, 2012
The German national football team won their 3rd qualifier in their 2014 World Cup European group match in Dublin against Ireland this last Friday.
Compared to the 2-1 win against Austria in Vienna coach Joachim Loew brought to the game in Dublin Boateng, Mertesacker and Schweinsteiger for the yellow-locked Lahm, the injured Hummels and Kroos. Schweinsteiger led the team as captain on the [...] Continue Reading…
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Saturday, October 13th, 2012
Circa 10,000 Potsdamers were evacuated yesterday from their city, just west of Berlin after the discovery of an unexploded 250kg World War II bomb which was subsequently successfully defused.
To see a picture of the bomb go to – http://www.news.com.au/news/wwii-bomb-causes-evacuations-in-germany/story-fnejlrpu-1226494918044
The 250kg turned out to be of US manufacture and was discovered in a residential Potsdam area, wrote the paper.
After almost 70 years following [...] Continue Reading…
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