Archive for the ‘Culture’ Category
Wednesday, March 28th, 2012
Guggenheim go home: BMWs urbanes Großprojekt mit der Guggenheim Stiftung, das Future Lab, sollte als Zwischen -nutzer die letzte Brache an der Spree beziehen. Aber sie hatten die Rechnung ohne den autonomen Kreuzberger gemacht, der dem Autobauer einen Strich durch ebensolche zog. Das Curvy Grundstück an der Ecke zur Schlesischen sollte die neue Heimat der Auto- und Museumsmilliardäre werden. Eine Kohlefaserstruktur war [...] Continue Reading…
Tags: BMW Guggenheim Lab Berlin, Gentrifizierung Berlin, Kreuzberg Berlin, Mieten Berlin, Pfefferberg Prenzlauer Berg, Urbanismus Berlin
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Tuesday, March 27th, 2012
“You can do it when you B&Q it” used to run a popular slogan for the UK DIY chain. At the moment it seems that BMW can’t B&Q it. Finalise the setting up of a temporary Future Lab, that is. The car maker was due to open a carbon-firbe structure housing the lab, designed by a Japanese architectural firm, on May 24 [...] Continue Reading…
Tags: Berlin Kreuzberg, BMW Future Lab Berlin, BMW Guggenheim Berlin, BMW LAb Mumbai, BMW Lab New York, Curvystraße, gentrification berlin, Pfefferberg Prenzlauer Berg, Schlesische Straße Berlin
Posted in Architecture Berlin, Articles by Jörn Meyer, Berlin, Berlin General, Berlin Gentrification, Culture, Economy Berlin, Local Berlin, Science in Berlin | 1 Comment »
Saturday, March 24th, 2012
Billboard size Grafitti in Berlin – OTA-Berlin
Berlin is that kind of a city – artistic people want to express themselves …and what better way than just painting or stenciling on some un-used brick wall!
Todays pictures a huge billboard sized face at the corner of Holzmarktstraße. and Michaelbrücke in Berlin Friedrichshain / Kreuzberg.
They were sent by a Dutch tourist who stayed at OTA-Berlin serviced apartments last [...] Continue Reading…
Tags: Berlin Grafitti, Berlin Grafitti - Friedrichshain / Kreuzberg, Berlin Grafitti - March 2012, Berlin Grafitti Prenzlauer Berg, berlin grafitti today, Billboard sized Grafitti Berlin, Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg, Holzmarktstraße, huge grafitti portrait on side of building Berlin, marilyn monroe as grafitti Berlin, Michaelbrücke, ota-berlin gallery, Progressive BERLIN Grafitti, Wall Art Berlin
Posted in Art, Berlin, Berlin Culture, Berlin Fashion, Berlin Youth Culture, Culture, Graffiti, Local Berlin, Visual Arts | No Comments »
Wednesday, March 21st, 2012
For this entry expect some shameless name-dropping, plenty of movers and shakers and a cast of comedians. The background story goes as follows: years ago I worked with a Jewish film director in London, a BBC veteran specialised in Human Rights and Holocaust documentaries. He always joked “If you want a miserable night in just put one of my films on”.
Whenever in [...] Continue Reading…
Tags: Adlon, Altes Europa, BBC, Bernd Eichinger, Bocca di Bacco, Bochardt, Brandenburg Gate, British embassy, Bully Herbig, Christian Tramitz, Cinema for Peace, Dalai Lama, Die Zeit, Französische Straße, Giovanni di Lorenzo, Günther Jauch, Kempinski, Klaus Ernst, Leonardo de Caprio, Michael Mittermeier, movers and shakers, name-dropping, Pariser Platz, Paul Auster, Russian embassy, Sacha Baron Cohen, The Red Baron, Thomas Gottschalk, unter den linden
Posted in Articles by Jörn Meyer, Bars, Berlin, Berlin Culture, Berlin General, Culture, Drinking in Berlin, Entertainment, Evening Entertainment, Film, Food, Local Berlin, Restaurant Review, Things to do in Berlin | No Comments »
Tuesday, March 20th, 2012
You know the psychological game whereby your focus determines what you see and how this object of attention or desire mulitplies before your eyes. Lately I seem to notice an increasing number of little colourful ‘Fix it again Tonys’ on Torstraße or thereabouts
‘Fix it again Tony’ was the term an L. A. mechanic used for the Fiat brand when I visited the [...] Continue Reading…
Tags: Berlin cars, Berlin streetlife, environmental sticker Berlin, Fiat 500 Berlin, Fix it again Tony, Torstraße Berlin
Posted in Articles by Jörn Meyer, Berlin, Berlin Culture, Berlin Funny Fotos, Berlin General, Culture, Local Berlin, Things to do in Berlin, Transportation | No Comments »
Friday, March 16th, 2012
As U2′s Los Angeles performed Belfast yearnings for religious and income neutral postcodes go, there are places ‘where the streets have no name’. This seems true not only in Utopia but elsewhere, too. Namely in New York City. Who doesn’t know the NYC grid, after all?!
As a student I did a bike-messenger stint in Manhattan, so tourists would frequently ask me for [...] Continue Reading…
Tags: Belfast, Berlin, Berlin bears, gauck, Knut, Märkisches Museum, Maxi, Maxi and Schnute, NYC, Occupy Wall Street, red city hall, Schnute, u2, Wall Street, Wallstraße, Where the streets have no names
Posted in Articles by Jörn Meyer, Berlin, Berlin General, Berlin Museums, Berlin Tourist Attractions, Culture, German Language, History, History Berlin, Local Berlin, Politics Berlin, Politics Germany, Things to do in Berlin, Transportation | No Comments »
Wednesday, March 14th, 2012
Berlin is that kind of a city – artistic people want to express themselves …and what better way than just painting or stenciling on some un-used brick wall!
Todays picture shows almost copied or an artists version of famous people like Marilyn Monroe and a Beck’s Beer advertisement as painted on the wall of a small market in Prenzlauer Berg. Also a [...] Continue Reading…
Tags: Adam & Eva in Berlin, Beck's Beer ad as Berlin grafitti, Berlin Grafitti, Berlin Grafitti # 6, Berlin Grafitti - February 2012, Berlin Grafitti - March 2012, Berlin Grafitti Prenzlauer Berg, berlin grafitti today, marilyn monroe as grafitti Berlin, ota-berlin gallery, Progressive BERLIN Grafitti, Wall Art Berlin
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Monday, March 12th, 2012
“You have to take the rough with the smooth”, say the riffraff to the gentrified (or vice versa). And there is still a good deal of gritty realism to be spotted in Prenzlauer Berg and Mitte, at least as far as the exterior design goes. So that us middle-classes can sit with a latte and laptop and enjoy the crumbling charm of [...] Continue Reading…
Tags: Berlin Mitte, Berlin Prenzlauerberg, Berlin Wedding, Bobo, bohemian, Boho, gentrification, Mitte, neo-paradise, Prenzlauer Berg, riffraff
Posted in Architecture Berlin, Articles by Jörn Meyer, Berlin, Berlin Culture, Berlin General, Culture, Economy Berlin, Graffiti, Local Berlin | No Comments »
Friday, March 9th, 2012
I’M THE BLOODY QUEEN OF ENGLAND – now how is that for a heady statement straight from the heart of street art? A monarch might mind and lament “we are not amused” that “it has pleased Providence to place me in this station”, but at least aesthetically it’s quite a pleasing ‘tagline’ (which I saw not at London’s Victoria station but in [...] Continue Reading…
Tags: Banksy, Berlin, East Side Gallery, Graffiti, graffiti berlin, How Long IS NOW, nitty-gritty of witty graffiti, Queen Elisabeth, Queen Victoria, street art, street-smart street art, tacheles, We are not amused, Weißensee, witty graffiti berlin
Posted in Art, Articles by Jörn Meyer, Berlin, Berlin Culture, Berlin General, Berlin Tourist Attractions, Culture, Graffiti, Local Berlin | No Comments »
Friday, March 9th, 2012
This leading football film festival will kick off this evening March 9th with “We are the Champions”, the legendary German goalkeeper and Coach Sepp Maier’s video diary of the 1990 World Cup – with never before screened images from inside the World Cup winning squad.
The film Polish director Kornel Migluss movie, ‘The Frankfurt Water Fight/ Wasserschlacht von Frankfurt’ will also [...] Continue Reading…
Tags: "11mm Roadshow"., "Football Films for Children and Youth"., 9th International Football Film Festival, Cinema Babylon Berlin:Mitte, http://www.11-mm.de/, Kornel Migluss, Movie Football in Poland and the Ukraine", Sepp Maier’s, The International Football Film Festival', Wasserschlacht von Frankfurt”, www.euro-2012-blog.com
Posted in Berlin, Bundesliga, Culture, Film, Football Europe, Hertha Berlin, Theatre, Things to do in Berlin | No Comments »
Friday, March 9th, 2012
A former neo-nazi NPD leader wanted to spend a few days in a spa hotel, but the brave management rejected his reservation because of his active right-wing dangerous ideology. The right-wing extremist took his complaint before the Supreme Court and today the verdict reads that basically any hotel operator has the right to reject right-wing extremists as guests.
The wife of this certain Udo Voigt, [...] Continue Reading…
Tags: 'No room at the German Inn' for NPD neo-nazis, Bad Saarow, Hotel Esplanade Brandenburg Storkow, just say no to NPD, Neo Nazi has no place to stay in Germany, Neo-Nazis thrown out of German Hotel, no hotel for nazis, NPD no place to stay, Scharmützelsee
Posted in Apartments vs Hotels, Articles by Emil Hoogensteyn, Berlin, Culture, Politics Berlin, Politics EU, Politics Germany | No Comments »
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