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Tuesday, April 10th, 2012
![800px-Olympicstadium2[1] Berlin Olympic Stadium - foto from Wikipedia by Chrisgj6](http://www.ota-berlin.de/blog/wp-content/800px-Olympicstadium21-150x150.jpg)
Hertha needs to start filling its stadium – the Olympic Stadium of Berlin however it seems to doing everything possible to hinder that happening. It is one of the largest football stadiums in Germany where the World Cup final was held in 2006 and can seat up to 75,000 football fans.
Yes they are back to their old ways – Hertha losing ways . [...] Continue Reading…
Tags: Änis Ben-Hatira, Australian Rukavytsya, Berlin in 1-2 home defeat to SC Freiburg, Coach Hertha-Berlin Otto Rehhagel, Hertha Berlin in 1-2 home defeat to SC Freiburg, hertha lose again, new Hertha coach, olympic stadium Berlin, Otto Rehhagel, Πούλμαν »Χέρτα Βερολίνου-και Οτο Ρεχάγκελ
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Sunday, April 1st, 2012
![800px-Olympicstadium2[1] Berlin Olympic Stadium - foto from Wikipedia by Chrisgj6](http://www.ota-berlin.de/blog/wp-content/800px-Olympicstadium21-150x150.jpg)
Hertha needs to start filling its stadium – the Olympic Stadium of Berlin. It is one of the largest football stadiums in Germany where the World Cup final was held in 2006 and can seat up to 75,000 football fans.
Yes they are back to their old ways – losing ways.
Hertha Berlin failed to repeat their great 3-1 away wins at Mainz last [...] Continue Reading…
Tags: Änis Ben-Hatira, Australian Rukavytsya, Berlin in 4-1 home defeat to Wolfsburg, Coach Hertha-Berlin Otto Rehhagel, hertha lose again, hertha new coach, new Hertha coach, olympic stadium Berlin, Otto Rehhagel, Πούλμαν »Χέρτα Βερολίνου-και Οτο Ρεχάγκελ
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Monday, March 26th, 2012
![453px-Otto_Rehhagel_01[1] Otto Rehhagel - foto Wikipedia by Beek100](http://www.ota-berlin.de/blog/wp-content/453px-Otto_Rehhagel_011-150x150.jpg)
Ben-Hatira , with Tunisian parents, was born in Berlin in 1988 and started his football career playing for local youth clubs eventually ending up at Hertha BSC.
Otto Rehhagel presented a different team which lost to Bayern Munich last week in a painful 0-6 drubbing.
Brought into the team was Ben-Hatira, Lell moved from midfield to right back to replace and Kobiashvili was deposited [...] Continue Reading…
Tags: arjen robben, Coach Hertha-Berlin Otto Rehhagel, hertha new coach, Jurgen Klopp, mario gomez, new Hertha coach, olympic stadium Berlin, Otto Rehhagel, Πούλμαν »Χέρτα Βερολίνου-και Οτο Ρεχάγκελ
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Saturday, March 17th, 2012
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Bayern München ‘cleaned the clock’ of sinking-quickly Hertha Berlin in the German capital yesterday evening, out-playing the Berliners in all aspects of the game winning 0-6.
This after earlier in the last week having won 7-1 against Hoffenheim in the Bundesliga last weekend and then winning 7-0 against Swiss Basel FC in the Champions league in the middle of the week.
Hertha Berlin, seemingly [...] Continue Reading…
Tags: arjen robben, Coach Hertha-Berlin Otto Rehhagel, hertha new coach, Jurgen Klopp, mario gomez, new Hertha coach, olympic stadium Berlin, Otto Rehhagel, Πούλμαν »Χέρτα Βερολίνου-και Οτο Ρεχάγκελ
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Sunday, March 4th, 2012
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Hertha Berlin was able to celebrate just a little yesterday after their home win, and actually obtain some highly needed points – the first with newly appointed coach Otto Rehhagel.
The 3 points are the first from this year and hopefully will be the first of many such wins – or even ties will do – in order to avoid relegation again next [...] Continue Reading…
Tags: 'We are not Barcelona - don't try to play like Barcelona! ', Coach Hertha-Berlin Otto Rehhagel, Hertha 1 Werder Bremen 0, hertha are not barcelona, hertha new coach, Hertha’s Sporting director Michael Preetz, new Hertha coach, Nikita Rukavytsya, olympic stadium Berlin, Otto Rehhagel, Πούλμαν »Χέρτα Βερολίνου-και Οτο Ρεχάγκελ
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Thursday, March 1st, 2012

Yesterday, ‘ARTE’ television showed a live performance made on February 10th, as part of the 2012 Berlinale International Film festivals reconstructed version of OCTOBER/OKTJABR , made in the then USSR in 1928, directed by Sergei Eisenstein.
The musical score was based on the original as composed by Edmund Meisel – the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra was conducted by Frank Strobel. [...] Continue Reading…
Tags: ARTE’ television, Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Edmund Meisel, Frank Strobel, OCTOBER/OKTJABR, October: Ten Days That Shook the World, OKTJABR, Сергей Михайлович Эйзенштейн, “The Red Dream Factory”.
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Monday, February 27th, 2012
![453px-Otto_Rehhagel_01[1] Otto Rehhagel - foto Wikipedia by Beek100](http://www.ota-berlin.de/blog/wp-content/453px-Otto_Rehhagel_011-150x150.jpg)
Newly appointed Hertha coach Otto Rehhagel did not have an auspicious beginning in his new trainer’s job losing to lowly Augsburg, themselves candidates for relegation 3-0 on Saturday.
While giving due credit to FC Augsburg whom he said fought like lions, he made it clear that very basic tactical changes need to be made – it is clear that Hertha is not Barcelona [...] Continue Reading…
Tags: 'We are not Barcelona - don't try to play like Barcelona! ', Coach Hertha-Berlin Otto Rehhagel, Coach' Hertha-Berlin and Otto Rehhagel, hertha are not barcelona, Hertha Coach to leave, hertha new coach, Hertha’s Sporting director Michael Preetz, new Hertha coach, olympic stadium Berlin, Otto Rehhagel, Πούλμαν »Χέρτα Βερολίνου-και Οτο Ρεχάγκελ
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Monday, February 20th, 2012
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Well we wrote on the last blog about HERTHA the following -
“If we can believe German media reports then Bulgarian coach Krasimir Balakov may become the next manager at Hertha Berlin -the Bulgarian is prominent amongst other names like Thomas Doll and Ralf Rangnick, and even former German star Lothar Matthäus.”
Hertha Berlin FC have announced that the experienced and respected [...] Continue Reading…
Tags: Coach Hertha-Berlin Otto Rehhagel, Coach' Hertha-Berlin and Otto Rehhagel, Hertha Coach to leave, hertha new coach, Hertha’s Sporting director Michael Preetz, new Hertha coach, olympic stadium Berlin, Otto Rehhagel, Πούλμαν »Χέρτα Βερολίνου-και Οτο Ρεχάγκελ
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Wednesday, February 15th, 2012
![Hertha_Berlin_SC[1] Hertha logo [Wikipedia]](http://www.ota-berlin.de/blog/wp-content/Hertha_Berlin_SC13-150x150.png)
If we can believe German media reports then Bulgarian coach Krasimir Balakov may become the next manager at Hertha Berlin -the Bulgarian is prominent amongst other names like Thomas Doll and Ralf Rangnick, and even former German star Lothar Matthäus.
Michael Skibbe’s very brief 7 week tenure as manager again added to the embarrassment of losing yet another manager within a [...] Continue Reading…
Tags: German star Lothar Matthäus, Herhta in news again for wrong reasons, Hertha Coach to leave, Hertha’s Sporting director Michael Preetz, Krasimir Balakov, Krasimir Balakov possible new Hertha coach, markus babbel to leave, Markus Babbel to leave Hertha Berlin, new Hertha coach, olympic stadium Berlin
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Wednesday, February 8th, 2012

Johannes Brahms’ “Ein deutsches Requiem” for vocal Solists, mixed Choir and 2 pianos after the original score by Brahms
Musical Direction - Phillip Moll - 2Pianists - Phillip Moll and Philip Mayers
Soprano Marlis Petersen
Bariton Konrad Jarnot
with Rundfunkchor Berlin – Conductor Simon Halsey
Artistic assistance for rehersals from - Davide Camplani und Claudia de Serpa Soares
Staging by Brad Hwang
Lights Jörg Bittner and Thomas Herda
Brahms’ Requiem is [...] Continue Reading…
Tags: Bariton Konrad Jarnot, Brahms German Requiem Op. 45, Davide Camplani und Claudia de Serpa Soares, Gundola Janowitz greatest living soprano, Jochen Sandig, Jörg Bittner and Thomas Herda, Live Johannes Brahms in Berlin “Ein deutsches Requiem”, Phillip Moll and Philip Mayers, Radial System, Rundfunkchor Berlin, Sasha Waltz & Guests’, Simon Halsey, Soprano Marlis Petersen, Staging by Brad Hwang
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Friday, January 27th, 2012

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – baptized as – wait for it – Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart was born on the 27th January 1756 in Salzburg Austria – so Happy Birthday to Mister Mozart.
Below I have written a short account of Mozart’s journey late in his life to Berlin and follow that with the major part of a short biography of hime as [...] Continue Reading…
Tags: 27th January Mozart's birthday, Happy Birthday Mozart, Mozart Berlin, mozart in Berlin, Mozart travels to Berlin, Mozart's Journey to Berlin by Maynard Solomon, The Journal of Musicology
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