OTA-Berlin Constituency Blog

‘Upcycle Fashion Store’ in Berlin Mitte -Linienstraße 77 – by OTA-Berlin Constituency Blog contributor Mr Jörn Meyer

OTA-Berlin — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:19:32 +0000

The only way is up!

Why not rent a bicycle and cycle down to the Upcycle Fashion Store in Berlin Mitte?! The outlet in Linienstraße 77 is the first of its kind in the capital. Upcycling being the ‘big brother’, no, better ‘big sista’ of recycling. http://upcycling-fashion.com/about/

“Upcycling is the process of converting waste materials or useless products into new materials or products of [...] Continue Reading…

Heitor Villa-Lobos live in Berlin! Concert tomorrow evening 03rd of February at 2030 hrs, Guitarist Evgeni Beleninov & Pianist Eleonora Kotlybulat-Palvanova – ‘Heitor Villa-Lobos Project’ at Piano Salon Christophori

OTA-Berlin — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 12:57:49 +0000

Villa Lobos Projekt
for Gitarre and Piano
Evgeni Beleninov Guitar and
Eleonora Kotlybulat-Palvanova Piano
12 Konzertetüden
Concert for Gitarre + Klavier
Heitor Villa-Lobos
This coming Friday - tomorrow in fact - the 03rd of February at 2030 hrs, the Piano Salon will present Villa Lobos project for guitar and piano. The Russian guitar virtuoso Evgeni Beleninov and pianist Eleonora Kotlybulat-Palvanova-play 12 concert etudes and the Concerto for guitar and piano by [...] Continue Reading…

As Wikileaks founder Julien Assange faces court in London – ‘Piraten Partei’ in Germany rightfully supports Wikileaks- by contributor Mr Emil Hoogensteyn

OTA-Berlin — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:03:59 +0000

The opinions expressed are not necessarily those of OTA-Berlin but of the contributor – in this case Mr Emil Hoogensteyn. OTA-Berlin Constituency Blog’ is part of OTA-Berlin ‘……the intelligent Apartment-Alternative to Hotels in Berlin’.The Blog provides OTA-Berlin guests a quick overview of the cultural, sports, social and other related activities taking place in Berlin during their stay. ‘OTA-Berlin Constituency Blog’ has existed [...] Continue Reading…

Live Chamber Music in Berlin – Violin + Piano – The sisters Birringer, Lea and Esther – this coming Thursday the 19th at 2030 hrs – Piano Salon Christophori

OTA-Berlin — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 23:15:48 +0000

Chamber Music on a grande scale with……
Lea Birringer – Violin
Esther Birringer – Piano
Mozart:    Sonate KV 305 A-Dur
Beethoven: Sonate op.12 Nr.3 Es-Dur
Hindemith:     Sonate op.11 Nr.1 Es-Dur
Respighi:      Sonate h-moll

Ottorino Respighi [1879 - 1936] – foto from Wikipedia

Lea will play a Violine made by Gianbattista Ceruti,
Cremona, circa 1800.
www.leabirringer.com
www.estherbirringer.com
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French Elections – ‘Politics Makes Strange Bedfellows’: Chancellor Merkel to go out on a political limb & out of her way to support Sarkozy’s re-election – by OTA-Berlin Constituency blog contributor Emil Hoogensteyn

OTA-Berlin — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 11:49:38 +0000

Political forces can sometimes bring and even force together people who might otherwise have very little in common - this could be the case with the German Chancellor Merkel and the French President Sarkozy.

” Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows” is how William Shakespeare put it with a man who has been shipwrecked and finds himself seeking shelter beside a sleeping [...] Continue Reading…

Give a warm welcome to the Fliegender Kaffee Project – by OTA-Berlin Constituency Blog contributor Ms D. de Nobrega

evan — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 20:46:18 +0000

Nothing is more symptomatic of the growing importance of Berlin’s creative class than the emergence of solutions tailored specifically to its needs.

For those not familiar with the lifestyle of freelance artists and other innovators, please understand that it is subject to financial oscillations only facilitated by initiatives such as the Fliegender Kaffee.

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

OTA-Berlin — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 13:20:26 +0000

Emphasis this evening will be on the Prussian King Friedrich II, the Great, the old man, and now, on his 300th Birthday, he is almost everywhere - on the front pages of stores, in the windows of bookstores, exhibitions and television documentaries and now even at the Long Night of Museums. With good reason, as we find. For Frederick II, more than any other personality shaped the cultural identity of the Berlin and Brandenburg and left its traces in the collections of several museums and collections. About seventy buildings take on this 30th Long Night of the Museums, and many of them will remember with musical and literary programs or special tours to this enlightened and very special ruler. On the famous boulevard Unter den Linden, at the famous equestrian statue of the King, there is a be lazer large-screen projection with traditional sayings of Frederick in both French and German and - if the weather cooperates - a huge snow sculpture.

January 27th means….Happy Birthday Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart! – Mozart in Berlin – by contributor Mr Filip v d Plas

OTA-Berlin — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 23:21:43 +0000

With a little luck a direct flight from Salzburg to Berlin today would take about 1 hour and 20 minutes. However when Mozart took it about 223 years ago it would have taken a good 3 weeks! Back then he would have had to travel through Brno, Prague, Dresden, Leipzig and then on to Berlin. And he came with great expectations in that spring to Berlin - as usual he was in his impecunious state -habitually plagued by money problems through-out his life. But it was not Berlin he wanted to visit as such but rather Potsdam. Mozart came with great expectations in the spring in Berlin. Potsdam because that is where he was hoping to obtain some commissions and obtain some new revenue source to support his family by applying directly with the Prussian ruler Frederick the Great – Fredrich II – who as it happens has a birthday just 3 days before Wolfgang! The main gist of the entire trip was to meet the monarch himself and Mozart was sure that such a face-to-face meeting would convince his potential future patron of his ability and good will – something similar which a meeting with Johann Sebastian Bach achieved. http://www.ota-berlin.de/blog/05/21/biography-of-johann-sebastian-bach/ However it was not to be, whether through the court intrigue of a court musician who was jealous of losing out to Mozart in future musical orders or whether Frederick was just not in one of his musical moods – it seems we will never know exactly.

Berlin Grafitti – January 2012

OTA-Berlin — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:21:59 +0000

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These 8 pictures were sent in by OTA-Blog contributor Nicolai Riesterer who lives in Kreuzberg and often takes fotos of interesting Grafitti in the various Berlin neighbourhoods./thanks !

OTA-Berlin Constituency Blog writes often about progressive….and also not so progressive……even offensive Grafitti in Berlin – previous articles can be read at;

http://www.ota-berlin.de/blog/2010/07/08/progressive-berlin-grafitti-kreuzberg/

http://www.ota-berlin.de/blog/2010/04/26/berlin-street-art-and-berlin-street-posters-are-not-graffiti-poster-art-in-berlin-mitte-prenzlauer-berg-part-1-ota-berlin-constituency-blog/

http://www.ota-berlin.de/blog/2010/07/05/sheep-grazing-peacefully-in-middle-of-berlin-or-are-they-just-progressive-graffiti/

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German spy agency monitors ‘Linke’ politicians – BfV /’Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz’ – A Bureaucratic agency out of control, out of touch and out of its depth – The ‘BfV’ has become more of a problem than any kind of solution – by OTA-Berlin Constituency contributor Mr Emil Hoogensteyn

OTA-Berlin — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 22:59:44 +0000

Well over a third of the ‘Linke’ Party parliamentarians are currently actively being monitored by the country’s domestic intelligence agency the’ BfV’ -the domestic secret service or the ‘Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz’.

It has been reported and since admitted by the agency concerned that 27 of the Linke’s 76 MP’s it current considers ‘people of interest’ along with 11 Linke members serving in regional [...] Continue Reading…