Der KARNEVAL DER KULTUREN findet rund um den Blücherplatz am U-Bahnhof Hallesches Tor und Mehringdamm statt. Von Freitag bis Sonntag, den 17. bis 20. Mai., kann man 350 Stände erkunden und sich mit Köstlichkeiten und Juvelen ferner Länder verwöhnen.
Die Neuheit dieses Jahr: Eine kleine Mini-Oase im Auftrag der Nachhaltigkeit und ein bleibend prägender „grüner Punkt“ im Stadtbild.
Doch wie immer ist ...
Complementing our popular apartments, Old Town Hotel is our new kid on the block, not a baby-faced infant but a charismatic grown-up with some tested inventory, colourful exterior and personal out-look on course of rejuvenation.
http://www.ota-berlin.de/english/hotel
German:
Zu unseren beliebten Old Town Apartments gesellt sich als Neuling unser Old Town Hotel, kein junger Hüpfer sondern ein gestandenes Manns- bzw. Weibsbild bei dem ‚grün ...
With its new web site OTA keeps things well in sight and thus in mind – mind you it’s very handy, too, while the tried and tested colour scheme is still the familiar orange and blue. We hope it’ll keep doing the trick for you. However, the apartments filling pretty much the whole page that’s the latest rage. Also, the ...
Wer den urbanen Hipster mal hautnah und in Aktion erleben möchte, kann sich am Samstag den 23. Februar aufmachen zur Hipster-Olympiade im Club Kosmonaut im Berliner In-Bezirk Friedrichshain (Wiesenweg 1-4): da hüpft dann der Hipster mit seinem Kontrahenten im Jutebeutel um die Wette, bastelt bombastische Bärte, zieht Tau an der Skinny-Jeans, wirft Hornbrillen weiter als er gucken kann, stapelt Mate-Kisten, ...
This mother of all berlin fashion shows puts Bread & Butter back on the menu. But fret not if this sounds like a meager meal to you there is 7 course fry-up flown in and served at Tempelhof Airport and other sites, expect it to be better than plain plane food.
PREMIUM the fashion show for starters; BRIGHT the street wear trade [...] Continue Reading…
Mayor Klaus Wowereit of Berlin has sat survived a vote of no confidence in the House of Representatives of the city state.
The opposition had the motion filed against him, because they find the Wowereit complicit to the debacle surrounding the new international airport. BBI.
A majority of 85 local municipat lawmakers rejected the non-confidence motion – supported by the Greens, Die Linke, and the [...] Continue Reading…
Panorama of the Rügener Chalk cliffs – foto from Wikipedia – Author, Martin Künzel, Berlin
While one never gets really tired of Berlin – one can get tired of cities generally and many Berliners go North to ‘get-away-from-it-all’ and visit Rügen!
Rügen is one of Germany’s most charming places to have a relaxing vacation in the heart of nature. Together with the Danish island [...] Continue Reading…
In the Bundesliga in this calendar year 2012, with half-season achieved Bayern Munich is number one - the best of all – and surprisingly with Bayer Leverkusen in an excellent second place 9 points behind the leaders. Just after in third is Borussia Dortmund with one point less.
Of the fifteen clubs in the whole of 2012 were active in the Bundesliga, Bayern [...] Continue Reading…
Welcome to the 2nd Berlin Piano Festival next year the 13th til the 21st April 2013 .
Individuality, virtuosity, creativity, rich sounds, diverse interpretations, they experimented, all characteristic of our very different pianists, whether internationally renowned or even just at the beginning of the career standing. Experience at the 2nd Berlin Piano Festival, the most interesting pianists close.
Ludwig van Beethoven was born in Bonn on December 16th 1770.
Even though no actual authenticated record of the date of his birth exists, the registry of his baptism, in a Roman Catholic service at the Parish of St. Regius in Bonn made on 17 December, 1770 survives.
Infants born in Northern Germany at this time were traditionally baptised [...] Continue Reading…
On this up comping Friday before Christmas, 21st December 12th at 2030 hrs “Bach and his transcriptions” by Nadja Zwiener, violin and Mr Abramovich, piano.
On this darkest day in the northern half of our planet we need warmth and light and who better to present this to us then the greatest German of all, namely Johan Sebastian Bach! -http://www.ota-berlin.de/blog/05/21/biography-of-johann-sebastian-bach/
The opinions expressed in the following blog article by our blog contributors and subsequent comments are not necessarily those of OTA-Berlin but specifically 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 [...] Continue Reading…
OTA-Berlin has a special section for local Grafitti & Berlin Street Art on its gallery at – http://www.ota-berlin.de/english/gallery
Yes, street-art or Graffiti can be just a one liner – along with a sort of drawing picture which has been pasted on.
For political slogans are usually just visual screams -’ Down with Bush’ or ‘Death to neo-Nazis’ are two popular ones in Berlin – [...] Continue Reading…
Dear friends, dear guests,
in the coming week, there are 3 concerts, first two piano recitals, which I would recommend as an unset at the highest level.
On Tuesday, the 04th 12th at 20.30 h with a recital of the fantastic pianist Herin Sung, the critics, whose opinions I guess, a great future is predicted. Several competitive gains points in this direction, such as [...] Continue Reading…
