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Coach of Hertha Berlin Otto Rehhagel – ‘We are not Barcelona – don’t try to play like Barcelona! ‘- by Filip van der Plas

Monday, February 27th, 2012
Otto Rehhagel - foto Wikipedia by Beek100

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…

Coach’ Hertha-Berlin and Otto Rehhagel ‘New- agree to Manager position- by Filip van der Plas

Monday, February 20th, 2012
Otto Rehhagel - foto Wikipedia by Beek100

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…

Art-Best-Seller’s extraordinary exhibition – 150 Gerhard Richter paintings at the New National Gallery – by OTA-Berlin Constituency Blog contributor Mr Jörn Meyer

Thursday, February 16th, 2012
Gerhard Richter - foto Wikipedia - source www.lothar-wolleh.de

If you want to break free from the moving pictures at the Berlin Film Festival at their Potsdamer Platz headquarters for a moment, you can venture past the Berlin Philharmonie over to the New National Gallery and be moved by the famously blurred paintings of the world’s number one artist Gerhard Richter.
In Manager Magazin’s Kunstkompass (an art compass or [...] Continue Reading…

‘No-Coach’ Herhta-Berlin in news again for wrong reasons – by Filip van der Plas

Wednesday, February 15th, 2012
Hertha logo [Wikipedia]

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…

Culinary Cinema: Kitchen or Kitsch? – (un)easy eating at the Berlin Film Festival – by OTA-Berlin Constituency Blog contributor Mr Jörn Meyer

Monday, February 13th, 2012

There is more to film than meets the eye. Out to prove this are Dieter Kosslick, Berlinale Director, and his cuisine team in the Culinary Cinema section of the Berlin film festival. Some critics, though, find a lot of cheese in this film fondue, they think this kind of kitchen brings kitsch to the cinema, see too strong an eventisation taking place [...] Continue Reading…

‘Stop ACTA’ demonstration in Berlin today brings out 10,000 enthusiastic demostrators in -8C weather – by OTA-Berlin Constituency Blog contributor Mr Emil Hoogensteyn

Saturday, February 11th, 2012

http://www.stopactaberlin.de/

This weekend also saw millions of European citizens take to the streets in other cities to protest against the EU’s involvement with the controversial anti-piracy agreement called the ‘ACTA’ treaty  [the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement ].
Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia governments have already delayed the ACTA treaty process and are under significant pressure from mostly young internet-savvy people and hopefully German reluctance [...] Continue Reading…

Live Johannes Brahms in Berlin “Ein deutsches Requiem” / “German Requiem” at Radial System -with Rundfunkchor Berlin directed by Simon Halsey in original Brahms score for two Pianos, soloists and choir

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…

BERLIN ‘LONG-NIGHT OF MUSEUMS’ / ‘Lange Nacht der Museen’ – This evening – 28th January 2012, 1800 til 0200 hrs

Saturday, January 28th, 2012

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 30th one now.
Nearly 100 museums and galleries will open their doors for extended hours, into special exhibitions, guided tours, music and [...] Continue Reading…

Gruenewoche Berlin starts today in Berlin – January 20th – 29th 2012

Thursday, January 19th, 2012

Everyone knows about the Reinheitsgebot or the laws governing the making of Beer in Germany – the “German Beer Purity Law” or the “Bavarian Purity Law.

It stated that the only ingredients that could be used in the making of beer was water, barley and hops. The law originated in the city of Ingolstadt in the duchy of Bavaria on 23 April [...] Continue Reading…

Today + Tomorrow at the Gendarmenmarkt Concert Haus – Alexei Volodin piano, Lukasz Borowicz conducts the ‘Konzerthausorchester’ – Berlin Live Classical music at a high level in Berlin – Concert Review – by contributor Filip van der Plas

Saturday, January 14th, 2012
chopin OTA-Berlin

As a first live concert I have attended this year – this was a perfect choice and it is repeated this evening and tomorrow afternoon.
Take my advice- GO!  You will not be dissapointed!
It consisted of a very well thought-out program of the Berlin ‘Koncerthausocherster’ and was both diversified and yet culturally -or if you like ‘Polishly’ -linked and called simply ‘Chopiniana’.
The orchestra [...] Continue Reading…

Merry Christmas and best wishes from ‘OTA-Berlin Constituency Blog’ contributors – What is the best Classical Christmas music ever written – could it be the Saint-Saëns’s ‘Oratorio de Noël ? by Filip v d Plas

Saturday, December 24th, 2011

Camille Saint-Saëns – foto Wikipedia
Always with the Christian holiday of the’ birth of Jesus’, there is music which is often only heard once a year and this is unfortunate because along with many great Christmas songs there are classical pieces like Georg Friedrich Handel’s Oratorio Messiah and Bach’s Christmas Oratorio which musically are always welcome.

One not so oft played piece, but more [...] Continue Reading…

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