Archive for the ‘Events in Germany’ Category
Monday, May 14th, 2012
Concert Review Sunday 13th May 2012
Place Sankt-Georgen-Kirche 23966 Wismar
NDR Sinfonieorchester conducted by Thomas Hengelbrock
Program -Schumann’s 3rd Symphony & Brahms 1st Symphony
The ‘Rolls Royce’ is in this case the NDR Sinfonieorchester and the venue the still being renovated huge and captivating space of the Sankt-Georgen-Kirche in the old Hansa city of Wismar in northern Germany – which unbeknown by most – [...] Continue Reading…
Tags: 3rd Symphony known as tSchumann's Rhenish” in E flat major, Brahms Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Concert Review NDR orchestra, Concert Review NDR orchestra visits St Georgen Kirche in Wismar, festspiele-mv, Kalev Kuljusas, Konzert Revue NDR Sinfonieorchester, Konzert Revue Wismar NDR, NDR Sinfonieorchester, NDR Sinfonieorchester concert review, NDR visits Wismar, Op. 68, Op. 97, Paulus van der Merwe, Paulus van der Merwe and Kalev Kuljusas, Rolls Royce parked in fabulous 'Work in Progress', St Georgen Kirche in Wismar, Stefan Wagner, Stefan Wagner the ‘Konzertmeister’, Thomas Hengelbrock
Posted in Articles by Filip van der Plas, Berlin, Classical Performances, Composers, Culture, Events, Events in Germany, German Culture, History, History Germany, Live Music, Orchestra, Performing Arts | No Comments »
Saturday, May 5th, 2012
SPD leader, current leader of the opposition in the German Bundestag Parliment, former German Vice-Chancellor and former German Foreign Minister – Frank-Walter Steinmeier – has spoken out against a boycott of games of the European Football Championship in Ukraine.
Sporting competitions should not be placed at the service of politics he said adding that the European Championship are being held and should simply take [...] Continue Reading…
Tags: boycott the 2012 London Olympic, boycottlondonolympics.com, India did threaten to boycott the up-coming London games, Loser William Hague, NO EURO 2012 BOYCOTT!!!, NO TO ANY EURO 2012 BOYCOTT!!!, Steinmeier opposes boycott, Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt boycotted, Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt opportunist, United States Government boycotted the 1980 Moscow Olympics
Posted in Articles by Filip van der Plas, Berlin, Bundesliga, Events in Germany, Football Europe, Politics EU, Politics Germany | No Comments »
Thursday, March 8th, 2012
[Photo shows Clara Zetkin -left- with Rosa Luxemborg in Berlin about 100 years ago - circa 1910- from Wikipedia]
In 1919 at the’ International Conference of Working Women’ in Copenhagen, Denmark, the groundwork for the first ‘International Women’s Day’ was established. This conference – attended by more than 100 women from 17 countries representing unions, socialist parties and working women’s clubs-agreed to [...] Continue Reading…
Tags: Barnetstraße, Clara Zetkin, Dita Scholl, international womans day, International Women's Day in Berlin, international womens day 2012, International Womens Day Berlin, Maren Kabaratestin Kroymann, Prof. Dr. Gesine Schwan, Rosa Luxemburg, What is Woman's day?
Posted in Berlin, Culture, Events, Events in Germany, German Culture, History Berlin, History Germany, Politics EU | No Comments »
Tuesday, March 6th, 2012
ITB Berlin has become a driving force in the travel industry and provides leading impulses to a continuously growing market and is rightfully called ‘The World’s Leading Travel Trade Show’. http://www.itb-berlin.de/en/
ITB Berlin is today’s leading B2B-Platform of all tourism industry offers – where supply and demand meet at the right place and is recognized for its unique opportunities to benefit [...] Continue Reading…
Tags: 2012 ITB Berlin Convention, eTravel World, I, International Tourism Bourse ITB Berlin, ITB Berlin 2012, ITB Berlin is THE B2B-Platform, ITB Mobile Solutions and Social Media, Messe Berlin, ‘social media and mobile travel services’
Posted in Accommodation, Airlines, Apartments vs Hotels, Berlin, Berlin Tours, Economy, Economy Berlin, Events, Events in Germany, News, Train, Transportation | No Comments »
Thursday, February 23rd, 2012
Angela Merkel -’OTA-Berlin Constituency Blog’ Personage of the Year 2011 It has been 3 months since a far-right terrorist neo-nazi cell was uncovered in Germany, and today the whole nation held a memorial service for the victims of neo-Nazi violence.
Chancellor Angela Merkel addressed the Berlin memorial service in Berlin which was attended by circa 1,200 people, including the relatives [...] Continue Reading…
Tags: Chancellor Angela Merkel, Memorial service in Berlin, Ms Maria Böhmer, nationwide moment of silence across Germany, right-wing neo-nazis should be crushed
Posted in Articles by Emil Hoogensteyn, Berlin, Events in Germany, History Berlin, History Germany, Local Berlin, Politics Berlin, Politics EU, Politics Germany | No Comments »
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…
Tags: 'Stop Acta' in Berlin, ACTA = censure and internet abuse!, ACTA against civil liberties and freedom of speech, ACTA is anti-democratic, ACTA is censure and internet abuse, anti ACTA Berlin, Berlin against ACTA, Berlin demo against ACTA, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (Acta).
Posted in Articles by Emil Hoogensteyn, Berlin, Berlin Events, Culture, Economy, Events, Events in Germany, History, Local Berlin, News, Politics Berlin, Politics EU, Politics Germany | 1 Comment »
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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Tuesday, January 24th, 2012
Happy Birthday Frederick the Great – but you may well ask yourself also, who was actually Frederick the Great………and why …..’the Great’?
Today exactly 300 years ago a future enlightened ruler of what was then Prussia was born.
Frederick II – a brilliant military commander, a tolerant prince, a philosopher, a musician – and perhaps Europes first gay-monarch -take your pick- he [...] Continue Reading…
Tags: 300 year Friedrich celebrations, 300th Anniversary of a Great German Ruler, Alte Fritz, Celebrate 'Friedrich300', der alte Fritz, Europes first gay-monarch, Frederick the Great and Berlin, frederick the great berlin, Friedrich der Große, Happy Birthday Frederick The Great, intellectually challenged George W. Bush, Potsdam, Potsdam and Frederick the Great, who was Frederick the Great, why was Frederick the Great so great?, Yurp
Posted in Articles by Emil Hoogensteyn, Berlin, Berlin Culture, Berlin Museums, Culture, Events, Events in Germany, Festivals, History Berlin, History Germany, Local Berlin, Things to do in Berlin | No Comments »
Sunday, January 15th, 2012
Epitaph 1919 – by Bertolt Brecht
Red Rosa has also now disappeared
Where she lies is unknown
Because she told the truth to the poor
The rich have hunted her out of the world.
Epitaph for Karl Liebknecht – by Bertolt Brecht
Here lies
Karl Liebknecht
The fighter against war
When he was struck down
Our city still continued to stand.
Epitaph for Rosa Luxemburg – by Bertolt Brecht
Here lies buried
Rosa Luxemburg
A Jewess [...] Continue Reading…
Tags: Bertolt Brecht, die linke, Epitaph 1919 - by Bertolt Brecht, Epitaph for Rosa Luxemburg - by Bertolt Brecht, gegenBANKENmacht, KPD in Berlin, opportunist SPD, rosa luxemburg & karl liebknecht remembered in berlin, Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, rosa luxemburg demo in berlin, „RAGE against the Capitalist Machine“, „RAGE against the Capitalist Machine“ Berlin
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Friday, January 13th, 2012
Frederick the Great by Anton Graff – from Wikipedia
Frederik the Great’, aka Friedrich der Große is justifiably almost synonymous with Berlin – he created his great palace with the baroque gardens ‘Sanssouci’ [no worries!] in Potsdam just outside Berlin.
This year 2012 will the 300th anniversary of his birth – his’ Jubiläumsjahr’- and there will be great celebrations in Berlin but especially in the [...] Continue Reading…
Tags: 300 year Friedrich celebrations, 300th Anniversary of a Great German Ruler, Celebrate 'Friedrich300', frederick the great berlin, Friedrich der Große, intellectually challenged George W. Bush, Potsdam, Yurp
Posted in Articles by Emil Hoogensteyn, Berlin, Berlin Culture, Berlin Museums, Culture, Events, Events in Germany, Festivals, History Berlin, History Germany, Local Berlin, Things to do in Berlin | No Comments »
Saturday, December 31st, 2011
Chancellor Angela Merkel has been voted ‘OTA-Berlin Constituency Blog’ personage of the year 2011 by the editorial staff.
Ms Merkel knows something about the word ‘ unity’ coming from the formerly divided nation of Germany and now as the de-facto leader of the Euro-zone countries she is actively keeping the various states of Europe together on the correct path in overcoming its current [...] Continue Reading…
Tags: Barbie doll after Merkel, cheat of the year zu Guttenberg, lecherous reprobate septuagenarian Berlusconi, loser of the year zu Guttenberg, Merkel Barbie doll, Merkel voted Personage of the Year, OTA-Berlin Constituency Blog Personage of the Year 2011, Person of the Year 2011
Posted in Berlin, Economy EU, Economy Germany, Events in Germany, History, OTA-Berlin News, Politics Berlin, Politics EU, Politics Germany | No Comments »
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