On Saturday evening the BBC’s chief stood before his own and other television cameras and announced his retirement – after 54 days in the job!
This resignation, of director George Entwistle on ,of the “most distinguished station in the world”, as the ‘BEEB’ calls itself , currently finds itself in perhaps its greatest crisis in its history,.
With the resignation of Entwistle and then in-turn, [...] Continue Reading…
German Historical Museum /Deutsches Historisches Museum Berlin – Original uploader was Gattom at en.wikipedia
On this day 25 years ago, the German Historical Museum was inaugurated and since then has become a major museum foundation in Germany.
The German Historical Museum /Deutsches Historisches Museum or ‘ DHM ‘ is a Berlin museum devoted to German history – it defines itself as a place of [...] Continue Reading…
It’s official – the A100 Berliner Ring ban extension may be built -Leipzig judges from German Supreme Court rejected the local residents complaints.
Later this year demolition of various buildings standing in the way of the combination of tunnels and highway will start to be cleared between Neukölln and Treptower Park.
The city highway extension A100 can be built as originally planned from Neukölln further [...] Continue Reading…
Germany’s 2nd largest airline, Air Berlin and the Franco-Dutch airline Air France/KLM have signed a code sharing, deal which will come into effect as early as this month. October.
It will mean passengers can buy a single ticket for use on all the other partner’s airlines.
‘Air Berlin PLC & Co. Luftverkehrs KG’ – to use its official legal name – will use the [...] Continue Reading…
We were curious which English speaking Berliners preferred to listen to when in Berlin – was it the BBC World Service Radio or the newly arrived to Berlin NPR or National Public Radio with a local affiliate station in Berlin. We also gave our blog viewers the alternative for a third choice, which was neither of the above but would prefer a [...] Continue Reading…
After a closing ceremony which the Guardian is calling ‘a raucous pageant of popular culture’ – in fact it was really nothing more than a tedious and chauvinist UK propaganda for has-been ‘culture’ of the 1960’s -very similar in fact like the opening ceremony had been.http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2012/aug/13/olympic-games-closing-ceremony-culture
That was the negative part.
The 2012 London Olympics are now over and after 2 weeks of some [...] Continue Reading…
Berlin Lake - photo trade-marked to Uli Klose of BerlinProPhoto | berlinprophoto.de
Let’s call it for what it is – a dog!
This summer weather in Berlin so far this year has been a complete and utter disaster.
On a wonderful summer day life in Berlin, as elsewhere in Northern Europe can be wonderful and even idyllic.One can take a swim in one of the many [...] Continue Reading…
Barenboim OTA-Berlin
The spectacle of the of the 2012 London Olympics opening ceremonies seemed at times tedious and dumbed down – as a typical event catering to American TV audiences.
While it was a good idea to show the history of the British Isles – in as much as one can do in such a limited time and space – there was too much [...] Continue Reading…
Evgeny Nikitin – jumped or pushed – does the right thing and vacates Bayreuther Festspiele’.
Where else but in Bayreuth, – with its very sinister dark past and Nazi symbolism, would a ‘sin of youth’ – as his Nazi tattoo has been described – stop a singer from participating in a major cultural event like the Bayreuther Festspiele’ . http://www.dw.de/dw/article/0,,16118550,00.html
But the ‘sin of [...] Continue Reading…
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Singer-Songwriter/Pop Jazz aus Amsterdam Julia Oschewsky (voc), Jaco Benckhuijsen (p, keyb, orgel), Marc Kluschat (g), Pat Cleaver (b), Ruben Steijn (dr)
I do not often go there – but after a great Beethoven Concert at the Piano Salon Christofori with the Russian but in Berlin living Pianist [...] Continue Reading…
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart und Anton Bruckner – OTA Berlin
Almost 60 years after his first concert in Europe, Daniel Barenboim is revisiting Vienna – and as usual with Barenboim – he will do so in style.
Starting yesterday evening Thursday, he will perform all the 9 symphonies of Anton Bruckner with the Staatskapelle Berlin, in the Vienna Musikverein hall. And at the invitation of [...] Continue Reading…
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